Open Judaism: Judaism wins if all denominations win
David Suissa
October 16, 2013
There’s a nasty food fight going on right now in the Orthodox world between the stringent groups and the more open ones.
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Caredim in church? The wackiest result from the Pew ‘Jewish Americans’ survey
Jewish Journal
October 1, 2013
The new Pew Research Center’s new study “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” offers a treasure trove of survey data on American Jewry. It’s a particularly valuable service since the Jewish Federations of North America opted not do a repeat of the decennial National Jewish Population Study to cap “the aughts.”
Is Sharansky the only one who doesn’t want confrontation at the Western Wall?
Shmuel Rosner
May 22, 2013
In the last two years, the Western Wall in Jerusalem — also known as the Kotel — has become a place of controversy as much as of worship. It’s the site of a battle that has long been waged by a group called Women of the Wall, who are demanding they be able to pray in the women’s section wearing tallits — Jewish prayer shawls — and also be permitted to read from the Torah, rights that the rabbi of the Kotel, backed by the police, wouldn’t give them.
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