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Scholarship and integrity should prompt Amichai Lau-Lavie to note that his proposal for restoring the lapsed “resident alien” category for the 21st-century American Jewish community (Jewish Week, June 16) is not at all novel. In a series of articles published in CCAR Journal (Spring 1973), Reform clergy heatedly debated the issue of rabbis solemnizing an […]

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I am deeply disappointed that The Jewish Week has become such an enthusiastic supporter of interfaith marriage. In a recent article [posted on The Jewish Week website], JTA editor Andrew Silow-Carroll quotes a recent study by the Jewish People Policy in which the authors concluded that the Jewish engagement gap between the inmarried and intermarried […]

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In response to extensive coverage regarding Amichai Lau-Lavie’s intermarriage proposal (“Maverick Rabbi Breaks Ranks Over Intermarriage,” June 16), I would like to share my own personal journey from “resident alien/ger toshav” to convert. In my view, the open, hybrid, fluid nature of the Jewish community south of Canal Street has served as a lab for […]

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