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orthodox
A Sunday call on same-sex marriage
Gina Nahai
August 7, 2013
I was talking with a young woman last Sunday afternoon. She had called me because she read the column I wrote here last month, about Sinai Temple’s decision to perform same-sex weddings.
Orthodox Jews among candidates running for SoRo neighborhood council seats
Jonah Lowenfeld
October 24, 2012
Four Orthodox Jews are among the candidates running in the Oct. 28 election for the board of South Robertson Neighborhood Council (SoRo), the 10-year-old organization that aims to give residents and stakeholders in the neighborhood a voice in community and city decisions.
Leiby Kletzky’s killer pleads guilty
Jewish Journal
August 9, 2012
Levi Aron, the Brooklyn man accused of killing 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and kidnapping.
Pittsburgh rabbi files federal lawsuit over Pa. funeral policy
Jewish Journal
August 7, 2012
An Orthodox rabbi from Pittsburgh filed a federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Board of Funeral Directors for requiring the oversight of licensed funeral directors in Jewish burials.
Israel’s military service law for ultra-Orthodox expires
Jewish Journal
August 1, 2012
An Israeli law that exempts ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students from military service expired on Wednesday under a court ruling, a highly emotive issue that has shaken Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s coalition government.
Hikind, prominent N.Y. Dem, won’t endorse Weprin to replace Weiner
Jewish Journal
August 23, 2011
Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew, announced that he will not support the Democratic candidate to replace former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
‘Who is a Jew’ crisis moves into aliyah sphere
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2011
Thomas Dohlan, who converted to Judaism in an Orthodox Canadian beit din, never anticipated that Israel’s Interior Ministry might question his Jewishness and block his bid to make aliyah. But that’s what is happening because of what appears to be a new policy that gives Israel’s Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate, and not the Interior Ministry, the ultimate authority to decide which Orthodox converts are kosher enough for immigration purposes.
Gangsta rapper Shyne, now an Orthodox Jew, plans comeback
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2011
It was early on during his difficult, isolated years in prison that the former gangsta rapper known as Shyne decided to formally take on the laws of Judaism as his own. Shyne, who legally changed his name in prison from Jamaal Barrows to Moses Levi — Moses is one of his favorite biblical heroes, and Levi is for the Levites who were musicians during Temple times — remembers the initial skepticism he encountered from prison rabbis at New York’s Rikers Island, where he was first incarcerated, and the other prison rabbis that would follow. \”In prison culture, everyone is trying to make a scam, everyone is a con artist, so who is this dark-skinned guy they wondered? Does he just want the Jewish food?\” asks Levi, now cloaked in the black garb of a Chasidic Jew and living in Jerusalem.
Not your average ‘schlub’ — a memoir
Jewish Journal
September 3, 2008
Max Gross, by his own admission, used to be your average schlub: He sported an unkempt Jewfro, the bottoms of his jeans were tattered and he\’d gamely put a good burger before a diet.
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