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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:36 p.m. Torah: Gen. 18:1-22:24 Haftarah: II Kings 4:1-37 Havdalah: 6:35 p.m. Sarah, seeing that her stepson Ishmael was a menace to the spiritual health of her only son Isaac, tells Abraham to drive him out of their house, together with his mother Hagar. God tells Abraham to listen to Sarah, […]

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Jewish restaurateur Danny Meyer of Shake Shack and Union Square Cafe fame cast his recent decision to end tipping across his hospitality empire in terms of economic justice, but there’s a debate in the restaurant world about whether his move is truly fair. An Orthodox Manhattan attorney who often represents underpaid workers in restaurants says […]

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The murder of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin 20 years ago opened a rip in Jewish society that is not healing. Commemorating this auspicious event is, in fact, becoming harder, as each side of the tear — those who supported Rabin’s leadership in pursuing the Oslo initiative for peace with the Palestinians and those who rejected […]

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