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Calif. Methodist seminary to train rabbis, imams

Jewish Journal May 16, 2011

The Claremont School of Theology, a Christian divinity school in Los Angeles, will use a $40 million gift to begin training Jewish and Muslim clergy. The gift from David and Joan Lincoln of Arizona, which was announced Monday, will help Claremont transform itself into a multifaith institution offering interfaith degree programs as well as training for rabbis, imams and ministers, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Rabbis measure response to Bin Laden’s death

Julie Gruenbaum Fax May 2, 2011

As details of the special operation that took out Osama bin Laden continue to unfold, rabbis in Los Angeles are pulling from biblical verses, Jewish traditions and their own gut reactions to help formulate an appropriate Jewish response to the news. Early Monday morning, Rabbi David Wolpe posted this on Facebook:

Dancing rabbis win cheers

Jewish Journal April 5, 2011

A sell-out crowd packed the American Jewish University’s (AJU) Gindi Auditorium on April 3 and watched as Rabbi Zoë Klein of Temple Isaiah tangoed her way to the inaugural “Dancing With the Rabbis” trophy. An ecstatic Klein, cheered on by her family, wowed the audience with her passionate routine with professional partner Daniel Ponickly.

North American rabbis protest conversion policy

Jewish Journal February 23, 2011

Dozens of North American Orthodox rabbis protested to Israel\’s Interior Ministry following reports that converts under Orthodox auspices are being denied the right to immigrate. \”We are concerned that conversions performed under our auspices are being questioned vis-à-vis aliyah eligibility,\” said a letter delivered to the ministry on Tuesday. \”We find this unacceptable, and turn to you in an effort to insure that those individuals whom we convert will automatically be eligible for aliyah as they have been in the past.\”

The rabbi and his ‘calling’

Jonah Lowenfeld December 15, 2010

In the fall of 2007, then-rabbinical student Shmuly Yanklowitz traveled with a few of his colleagues from the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York to San Diego. Wildfires had just burned through 500,000 acres and destroyed more than 1,500 homes. “I didn’t know what we were going to do,” Yanklowitz said at the time. “I just knew that we had to be there.”

Bibi slams rabbis’ ban on renting to non-Jews

Jewish Journal December 7, 2010

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blasted a ruling by dozens of Israel\’s municipal chief rabbis that forbids renting homes to gentiles, and more specifically to Arabs.

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