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Public Advocate and Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio released a statement Monday praising the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, who died after a long illness at 93. “Millions of people around the world lost a leader today in Rabbi Chacham Ovadia Yosef,” said de Blasio in the message, which came from […]

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The Opinion piece, “When Judaism Becomes Kmart” (Oct. 4), by
 Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, echoed many of my own sentiments regarding the plethora 
of “garage” and “pop-up” synagogues cropping up on the North Shore of Long 
Island. I am a very active member of a struggling, Conservative synagogue that is suffering from many of the same […]

A sampling of commentary from across the Jewish spectrum on the new Pew Research Center’s survey of American Jewry, the first major Jewish census in more than a decade. Ruth Messinger, president, American World Jewish Service “We see tremendous cause for optimism because the Pew study highlights that many American Jews see their Jewishness being […]

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