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Renewal Raises Its Sights While Resisting Any Label

By Jo Ellen Green Kaiser

The denominations that make up mainstream American Judaism — Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist — all seem to be struggling with organizational issues while clinging fiercely to their separate identities. But not Jewish Renewal, a small movement based on the teachings of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Renewal is facing the exact opposite problem: It is struggling to mature as a movement without becoming a denomination.Read More

CDC Warns That Mumps May Spread

By Josh Nathan-Kazis

Experts are warning that an outbreak of mumps that has already sickened thousands in the Orthodox community could spread further this Passover.Read More

The First ‘Rabba’ Is Given a Standing Ovation at Jewish Feminist Conference

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

The battle over whether women may serve in rabbinic roles in Orthodox synagogues, and if so, what these women should be called, dominated the recent Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance conference — where many speakers predicted that female clergy members would become increasingly common at Orthodox institutions.Read More

A New Story and Better Understanding Between Israelis and Palestinians

By Audrey Hoffer

This summer, young Israeli and Palestinian leaders will travel to Washington to live together and learn from each other, in hopes of creating a new narrative for the possibilities for peace in the Middle East.Read More

New Restaurant Seal Meets With Approval

By Gal Beckerman

The small kosher falafel joint called Soom Soom, on West 72nd Street in Manhattan, was bubbling with activity on a recent afternoon. In the kitchen, glimpsed through an open door, falafel balls were frying and a giant pot of hummus was being stirred, as half a dozen Latino employees fielded orders yelled out from a front counter covered in a rainbow of Israeli salads.Read More

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