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They may be tilting at windmills, given today’s hyper-polarized society, but a rabbi, a professor, a commodities trader and a Broadway producer have teamed up with the Jewish Theological Seminary to create a new center aimed at re-educating Americans about how to talk to one another. The Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice has the […]

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, spiritual leader of Chabad of Poway, Calif., who was shot in both of his index fingers by a gunman who stormed into his synagogue during last Saturday’s morning service, was raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and has a strong connection to Suffolk County, L.I. Beginning in 1978, he served for two years […]

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JTA — After I spoke to a group of people whose post-college-aged children would soon be going on a Birthright Israel trip, one father leaned in close to me, winked and whispered, “Just do what you have to to make sure my son finds a nice Jewish girl.” Little did he know that I had no […]

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