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New Plan Keeps Kotel Plaza For ‘Orthodox’ Services, Moves Others To Platform

In an attempt to soothe tensions at the Western Wall ahead of the High Holidays over the issue of women’s right to pray there collectively, the Israeli government has built a platform for services outside the main plaza, a move denounced as “exile” by the primary group that has been pushing for change at one […]

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How Jewish GIs Observed Rosh Hashanah In World War II

By the end of World War II, some 550,000 American Jewish men and women had served in the military forces from the South Pacific to the European theater. “The U.S. military had long been focused on the needs of Jewish soldiers, especially around the high holidays,” notes Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at […]

Spitzer: Sheldon Silver Must Go

Comptroller frontrunner calls for new leader of ‘broken’ Assembly; ‘Consider the source,’ Silver replies.

MVP Braun Admits To Doping

Not Enough Progress By Rabbis, Leaders On Dealing With Sexual Abuse

Recalling Jewish Labor’s Role In The Historic March On Washington

Appreciating Elmore Leonard: More Than A Crime Writer

Impresario Michael Dorf Expands His City Winery Empire

Culture Foundation’s New Commission: A Musical Sarajevo Hagaddah

Hikind Endorses Thompson For Mayor

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