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Skirball Center Exec Hospitalized After Cop-Impersonation Arrest

Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski terminated from Emanu-El adult ed post; wrote Jewish Week ‘God Talk’ column.

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The Self-Sacrifice Of Moses

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:06 p.m. Torah: Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1-26 Havdalah: 9:11 p.m. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” When I was an avid 11-year-old reader of English […]

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Beyond Tikkun Olam: An Agenda For Tisha b’Av

Tisha b’Av — the day of mourning for the loss of both Temples in Jerusalem and for the end of Jewish sovereignty until 1948 — is often marked by turning inwards, by examining the senseless hatred and other societal failures that the Talmud blames for the destruction and exile. (It fell earlier this week.) For […]

Halachic Template For Women’s Ordination Isn’t New

Beach Reading, Israeli Style

Black And Jewish And Read All Over

Intermarriage And The Gender Gap

Cooking For Michael Pollan

Hikind Continues Support For Chasidic Whistleblower

For Haredi Soldiers, War On The Home Front

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