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Over the last year, no fewer than five young people came out publicly as LGBTQ at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a pluralistic synagogue on Manhattans Upper West Side. Even Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, SAJs spiritual leader and an active champion of gay rights dating back to her days as a rabbinic intern at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the worlds largest synagogue for LGBTQ individuals, was surprised at the number. Thats a lot in a very small community, Herrmann said
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admin | June 21, 2021
The first military rabbi to take office in Germany in 100 years is to be inaugurated on Monday. The rabbi of the state of Saxony, Zsolt Balla, is to be inaugurated at the synagogue in Leipzig as Jewish chaplain to the German military, with others to follow in his footsteps in the coming years
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admin | June 21, 2021
Jaret Lyons. Photo by Wendi Lyons By David Statman Like the rest of the world, Jaret Lyons went through a lot of change in the last year and a half
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admin | June 21, 2021
The SimonWiesenthal Center,an international Jewish human rights organization, has launched a campaign to hold Google accountable for "tolerating" antisemitism in its workplace, the organization announced on Thursday.The Center has around 400,000 members worldwide and has consultative status at the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and other notable international organizations. The controversy began in 2007 when Kamau Bobb, known for being Google's head of diversity, wrote a post where he wrote that Jews have "an appetite for war and killing."This directly contradicts to Bobb's original job, which is to ensure that the workplace would be free of bigotry
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admin | June 21, 2021
By Staff | on June 20, 2021 Yavapai CASA for Kids Foundation (YC4KF) sincerely thanks the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Prescott for their generous $8,000 grant. These funds will be used to complete the final stages of constructing an outside play area at the Family Visitation Center. When families are separated during difficult times and children are placed under the care of the Department of Child Safety (DCS), the shared goal of DCS and YC4KF is family reunification
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admin | June 21, 2021
An egg cream was my fathers kitchen claim to fame. He assembled them with great flourish Foxs U-Bet chocolate syrup, cold milk from a glass bottle, and a long, hard shpritz of seltzer followed by a vigorous stir
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admin | June 21, 2021
The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix awarded $141,000 in scholarships for children hoping to attend Jewish day and sleep-away camps this summer.
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admin | June 21, 2021
Jason M. Shames and Lee Lasher, Special to the USA TODAY Network Published 4:15 a.m
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