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Not since Melanie Griffith donned a sheitel to play an undercover cop in the 1992 film “A Stranger Among Us,” has an A-list celebrity (not counting Matisyahu) brought an entourage a film crew into chasidic Brooklyn. But in a two-part series beginning Feb. 12, talk show diva Oprah Winfrey’s new TV program brings viewers to […]

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NEW YORK (JTA) – President Bill Clinton will receive the Tikkun Olam Lifetime Achievement Award of the Jewish Federation of Arkansas. The federation made the announcement Monday and will bestow the honor at a Feb. 4 ceremony in Little Rock marking its 100th anniversary celebration dinner. “[President Clinton] has exemplified tikkun olam in Arkansas and […]

A few years ago, thanks to a change in policy, gay rabbinical students at the Jewish Theological Seminary were finally able to come out of the closet. Now clothes are also emerging from the closet, so to speak — included as a topic worthy of scholarly study at the Conservative movement’s flagship institution. “What to […]

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