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Some students at the Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Brooklyn will be listening to songs of the Beatles, Billy Joel and “Les Miserables” as part of their classroom work this fall. They won’t be studying music, but political theory. Tom Rozinski, an associate professor of political science at Touro College, an independent school […]

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American-Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu spoke out against the organizers of a Spanish festival that canceled his performance because he refused to endorse Palestinian statehood. On his Facebook page Monday, a day after festival organizers announced that he was no longer invited to perform there, Matisyahu said the festival organizers had asked him “to write a […]

Students in day school Jewish studies classes usually devote their time to the likes of Abraham, Moses and Joshua. At Yeshivat Sha’arei DAT High School in Denver, some ninth- and 10th-graders spent several weeks studying joe. That’s brewed coffee, not the biblical Joseph. As part of a unit on applied kashrut, how kosher products are […]

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