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The full-bearded rabbi of a charedi community wanted to know how to sensitize his congregants to the concerns of LGBTQ Jews. The lay leader of a major Jewish organization confessed he feels like an outsider in synagogue because he’s not Hebrew-literate. An educator with a national Jewish organization acknowledged that while passionate about Jews and […]

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Sometimes the best solution to a controversy is not to act on it. That is our recommendation to the Orthodox Union (OU), the major body of Orthodox congregations in North America, which is grappling with what, if anything, to do about the fact that four of its member synagogues have women clergy members. A major […]

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We Jews may be small in number, but we are certainly diverse. The latest example can be found in the results of a new AJC poll that finds Jews the biggest critics – and supporters – of President Trump. (Full story here.) Seventy-seven percent of the 1,000 Jews polled disapprove of the way the president […]

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