Delay In State Funding Troubles Day Schools
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer A few hundred Jewish schools are among more than a thousand area nonpublic schools disputing a decision by state authorities to withhold mandated payments because of a...
View ArticleWanted: True Believers Only
by Larry Cohler-Esses Editor-At-Large Anne Lown, a Jewish woman from Boston, had worked nearly 25 years for the Salvation Army's children's services arm in New York when she was thrust into the world...
View ArticleRabbinic Molesters Issue Moving Agudah
by Larry Cohler-Esses Editor At Large The recent rash of cases in which rabbis have allegedly molested young children going back decades has moved one group that usually bristles at government...
View Article'Honey Did It All'
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer In October 1979, Honey Rackman was asked to help a friend whose daughter was being denied a "get," or Jewish divorce. A group of Modern Orthodox women held a meeting...
View ArticleRabbi Berenbaum, Rosh Yeshiva Of Mir, Dies At 86
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, who studied at the yeshiva in Mir, a small Polish town before World War II, was part of its international rescue during the Holocaust, and headed a...
View ArticleHigh-Wire Act
Ira Rifkin Fri, 03/06/2009Before the Internet Age rendered geography irrelevant to community there was the eruv, the rabbinic response to spatial separation. A strategically placed wire here, a...
View ArticleOpening Hearts, Wallets For Haitians
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Jewish community here, in outpouring of care, pitches in after quake. At a Jewish Y on Long Island, Jewish employees take up a collection for the families in Haiti of two...
View ArticleHigh-Wire Act
Ira Rifkin The eruv — that ethereal yet physical boundary enabling observant Jews to push strollers and use wheelchairs on Shabbat — fosters community even as it sparks tensions.Before the Internet...
View ArticleSeeming Contradiction
David Sable In the March 5 edition of The Jewish Week, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, is quoted in two separate articles. The first instance is in...
View ArticleStanding Up For Pesach
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer Passover or tennis? Passover or politics? Passover or crustaceans? Members of the Jewish community are this year facing — and in increasing numbers, protesting — the need...
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