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WATCH: Can Jews Pray The Gay Away? The Case Of Chaim Levin

Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 05.14.2012

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Chaim Levin chronicled the intense psychic duress that struggling to maintain a gay and Orthodox Jewish identity created for him. Subsequently, he was criticized in an op-ed in the Jewish Press.

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Jewish And Transgender: Follow The Words Of Hillel

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 04.26.2012

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On the face of it, "Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders" (just out from University of Wisconsin Press) is the story of how Jay ...

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Hook Up vs. Shut Up: Yeshiva University’s Sex Story Controversy

Shira Dicker | Posted 02.12.2012

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How did a poorly-written, not-entirely-credible account of first-time guilt-ridden yeshiva sex ignite a firestorm of controversy that has dominated newspapers, blogs and Shabbat table conversation?

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Yeshiva University Stunned By Tale Of A Tryst

nytimes.com | SHARON OTTERMAN | Posted 02.11.2012

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It all started with a provocative, anonymous essay about premarital sex published by an online student newspaper on Monday, the kind of first-person t...

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Astoria Characters: The Sister to the World's Women

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 02.05.2012

Maureen McGowan is the director of Handcrafting Justice, a Sisters of Good Shepherd project that sells handmade goods made by impoverished women in the developing world. This is no mom-and-pop charity.

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The Top 10 Colleges That Lead To Grad School

Posted 10.14.2011

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Planning on going to graduate school after college? US News and World Report recently compiled a list of the 10 colleges with the highest percentage ...

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WATCH: Hannukah's NEWEST Pop Hit?

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It's not your mother's dreidel song. A singing group from Yeshiva University has a Hanukkah hit on their hands. The Maccabeats' "Can...

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Dreidelpalooza! Yeshiva University Students Attempt To Break World Record [UPDATE]

Posted 05.25.2011

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Oh, dreidel dreidel! More than 500 Yeshiva University students will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most dreidels spun simultaneous...

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Christie Brinkley Hosts Carnival In Bridgehampton

Posted 05.25.2011

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Christie Brinkley hosted the 21st Annual Einstein Family Day yesterday in Bridgehampton. The "Wild Wild West" themed carnival was sponsored by Marq...

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Social Justice and Orthodox Judaism

Tali Adler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Uri L'Tzedek, Hebrew for "Awaken to Justice," is America's first Orthodox Jewish social justice organization. Founded in 2007, it is leading an awakening within the Orthodox community.

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No Holds Barred: Modern Orthodoxy Offers Alternatives to Reactionary Judaism

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.17.2011

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The only way the Modern Orthodox model can work is if it is grounded not only in Jewish commitment, but also in Jewish self-respect.

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A Rabbi Is Not a "Rabbi" in the Jewish Orthodox Twilight Zone

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 11.17.2011

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Within Orthodoxy, the "rabbi" title for a woman with the exact same credentials as a male rabbi is considered as forbidden as eating pork on Yom Kippur.

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The Incestuous Merkins Produce Ethically Murky Doings at the New York Times

Roger Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Times thought it fitting to allow the sister of Erza Merkin who steered $2.4 billion to Madoff to be prominently featured, and allowed her to get away with the barest sort of disclosure.

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Too Expensive and Lonely to be Jewish

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.17.2011

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The two most urgent priorities of the American Jewish community are making Jewish life more affordable and fixing the broken Jewish dating scene.

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Madoff's Chosen People -- What Can and Can't Be Said Out Loud

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is there any non-Jew in America who was thinking about marrying or doing business with a Jew that is now reconsidering that decision because Bernie Madoff was Jewish?

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Shaky Foundations & Bernie Madoff

Marc Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011

Nonprofits and foundations have to pay a lot more attention to how and where their money is invested. They can't just be responsible donors. They need to be responsible owners as well.

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The Real Lesson for Madoff's Chosen People

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

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44% of Americans say they have changed their religion at least once. A generation ago, we were born Jewish or Christian and we stayed that way whether we liked it or not.

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Transgender Professor at Yeshiva U. -- Mazel Tov!

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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English professor Joy Ladin, formerly Jay Ladin, makes Yeshiva University the first religiously conservative university in the United States with a transgender faculty member.

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