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The Next Generation: Organizers and Activists Learn the Ropes

January 21, 2009 By 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning, a dozen bleary-eyed idealists were already milling around, chewing absently on bagels and sipping from little orange juice cartons. Sunlight...

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How Do You Say ‘Charge It’ in Yiddish?

April 22, 2009 Chalk it up to the recession; it’s making all of us behave in unexpected ways. The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, a not-for-profit organization founded a century ago by socialist,...

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Darwin and God–-For Kids

November 20, 2009 Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith By Deborah Heiligman Henry Holt and Co., 272 pages, $18.95 Children’s book author Deborah Heiligman has been interested in religion since...

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Uncertain Territory: Conservative Judaism’s Pioneering Gay Rabbinical...

December 8, 2009 When the first openly gay rabbinic students came through the doors of Conservative Judaism’s Jewish Theological Seminary in 2007, there remained in the back of everyone’s mind one...

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Rabbinical Student Heads Up the Fight For Gay Marriage in New Jersey

December 23, 2009 Steven Goldstein jokes that his office in suburban New Jersey is “like the Jewish Museum of Montclair.” A sage-looking rabbi peers down from a lithograph on one wall, and a print of...

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Earning College Degrees Behind Bars

December 30, 2009 Woodbourne, N.Y. — It’s a Friday afternoon in December, and history professor John Fout is leading the students in his course, “Nazi Germany and the Holocaust,” in a spirited...

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A Tree Evangelist Who Connects Heaven and Earth

June 16th, 2010 During a Sabbath evening service one Friday in February, Seth Goldstein and his 9-year-old son, Ozi, sat with their eyes closed in the synagogue in Olympia, Wash., where Goldstein is...

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‘Our Bodies’ Gets an Israeli Makeover

October 18, 2011 If you’re a “woman of a certain age” in Israel, you don’t have a straightforward term like “menopause” to refer to that stage of life. In Hebrew you’re stuck with gil ha’blut, which...

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When Part Is Lost, What of the Whole?

June 29, 2012 The World Without You By Joshua Henkin Pantheon, 336 pages, $25.95 Leo Frankel is dead. He died on July 4, 2004, while on a reporting trip in Iraq. The action of “The World Without You”...

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