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A Call to Action: Rabbis for Health Care Reform

Ira Forman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Ira Forman

The National Jewish Democratic Council is bringing together rabbis from across the country to stand up for comprehensive health insurance reform and we need your help and your voice.

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Israel: Swine Flu Tackled By Praying Rabbis Flying Over Country

AP | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

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AP A planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in...

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Sam Stein

"Rabbis For Health Insurance Reform" Campaign Launched By Obama Ally

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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The debate over comprehensive health care reform has been so heated this summer it was bound to get biblical. On Tuesday, the National Democratic Jew...

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Suspect Nissim Aharon Poses As Rabbi To Rape Women: Israeli Police

Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

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A former Israeli security official, Nissim Aharon, stands accused by police of posing as a rabbi in order to sexually assault and defraud women, Haare...

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"Corruption Shtick" in the Garden State

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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Eric Dezenhall

Philip Roth called it right when he said, "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper."

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Alyssa Stanton, First African-American Jewish Rabbi, To Be Ordained In June

ABC News | EMILY FRIEDMAN | Posted 06.21.2009 | Home

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Growing up in a black, Pentecostal family in Cleveland, Alysa Stanton never imagined the day when she would be preparing to be ordained as a Jewish ra...

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Sam Stein

Rabbis Lobby Specter On Employee Free Choice Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Adding a religious element to the day's biggest labor-policy debate, a group of 30 rabbis penned a letter in Philadelphia's largest Jewish newspaper o...

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

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living

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Leora Tanenbaum

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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Christopher Hitchens and the Killer Jews

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

To read Hitchens these days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is fomented by their Rabbis.

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Why Orthodox Youth Are Leaving the Fold

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

For the branch of Judaism that has long advocated - and rightly so - that education is the key to observance, it is simply unacceptable to see so many youth lost.

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