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A week before the beginning of Passover this year, I attended a model LGBTQ seder sponsored by JPride, a Jewish organization in Baltimore on whose board I sit. Rabbi Andy Gordon (who came to Baltimore after serving congregations in Roslyn, L.I., and Scarsdale), led the ceremony at his Reform shul, the Bolton Street Synagogue. He asked […]

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When Passover began, I asked, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” As it ends, I ask, “Why is this Torah column different from all other Torah columns?” The answer begins with Elie Wiesel’s iconic story of Jews in a concentration camp unable to celebrate Simchat Torah for lack of a Torah scroll […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner said “the two-state solution failed,” setting up the likelihood that the peace plan he expects to release soon will include limited autonomy for Palestinians. “New and different ways to reach peace must be tried,” Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and one of the architects of the plan, said Tuesday at a Time […]

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