Another Tendler Steps Down
Amy Klein
April 6, 2006
Tendler\’s resignation comes shortly after his nephew, Rabbi Aron Tendler, resigned under pressure as rabbi of Shaarey Zedek Congregation in Valley Village.
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Rabbi Ending Long Hitch in Military
Avigail Schwartz
February 16, 2006
Lapp was 9 when his family arrived in the United States. He went on to study political science and religious education at Yeshiva University and was ordained at the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1957. He studied chaplaincy at the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
Temple Israel Honors Its ‘Conscience’
Susan Freudenheim
December 15, 2005
As clear-minded and direct today as she was in her youth, Nussbaum these days embodies the history of an era that is quickly slipping away. She is the widow of Rabbi Max Nussbaum, who led this same congregation from 1942 until his death in 1974.
Orthodoxy Has Chance to Reshape Role
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
December 8, 2005
Jewish community. With courage and vision, we need to act on this opportunity by understanding the important changes that have occurred over the last decades and rethinking the way we engage the broader Jewish community.
Project Shabbat a ‘Go’ in Cannes
Carole Raphaelle Davis
May 26, 2005
At first I thought the Cannes Shabbat dinner was another clever networking angle. Religion is big at the box office these days. And what better way for a couple of young producers to rub shoulders with some of Hollywood\’s big movers and shakers than to invite them to a Shabbat dinner?
Israel Should Accept All Jews as Jews
David Ellenson
April 7, 2005
On March 31, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that 17 foreigners converted to Judaism by non-Orthodox rabbinic courts must be considered as Jews under the Law of Return. The Law of Return has long extended legal recognition as Jews to Reform and Conservative converts who have moved to Israel from the Diaspora.
Rabbi Expelled Over Sex Abuse Claims
Chanan Tigay
March 24, 2005
Following an investigation into allegations from several women of sexual harassment, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) announced last week that it had expelled Rabbi Mordecai Tendler.
Letters to the Editor
Jewish Journal
October 14, 2004
Rabbi David Rue, the head of an Orthodox beit din, admits that of the 1,500 people who contacted the beit din last year because they were interested in becoming Jewish, he or the beit din managed to discourage more than 95 percent.
Israelis Call for Choices in Marriage
Dina Kraft
May 13, 2004
When Galit Weidman Sassoon got engaged last year, her thoughts turned to the kind of wedding ceremony she and her fiancé wanted — meaningful, egalitarian and Jewish.
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