The body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried and is no longer in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, where it had been held at a funeral home, the Worcester Police Department said on Thursday.
A building housing a synagogue and Jewish day school in Worcester, a city in central Massachusetts, has been seized by the Internal Revenue Service.
The third annual daylong symposium sponsored by the Jewish Federation in Worcester, Mass., was titled, \”A Woman\’s Voice,\” without the slightest hint of irony. Less than a generation ago, \”a woman\’s voice\” meant only one thing, the talmudic prohibition of Orthodox men toward hearing the sound of Jewish women in prayer.
Kol isha (a woman\’s voice) was used as the legal barrier against women becoming rabbis and cantors, the excuse for exclusion.
That\’s why I named this newspaper column A Woman\’s Voice, to break down a wall.
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