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Grandfather of 36 Goes the DistanceHeshy Josephs, 72, wanted to bike a distance that his family and friends could track on a globe.…Read more

Dyslexic Girls See The LightWhen Leah David couldn’t find the proper school for her daughter, she started her own.“My daughter wasn’t getting it,” David said. A stay-at-home mother to Gittel Bracha, her only child, David had been meeting with teachers and principals in her daughter’s Orthodox school for two years to discuss the young girl’s difficulties…Read more

Act of Hatred Becomes A Tool To Teach ToleranceIt was an incident that many in Lincoln, Neb., would prefer to forget. But Tom Kolbe is making sure that never happens.In 1995, three teenage boys from the Goodrich Middle School in Lincoln scuttled over the fence of Mount Carmel Cemetery to disrupt the funeral of a 99-year-old Jewish man, shouting “Heil Hitler,” and spitting tobacco…Read more

Rabbinical Study Finds ‘Alarming’ Pulpit Gender GapNearly two decades after the ordination of the first Conservative woman rabbi, the movement’s rabbinical union is calling for dramatic steps to close what it describes as an alarming gender gap in the pulpit.The issue was highlighted in a study released last week that found a number of discrepancies, such as female rabbis earning $10,000…Read more

Despite Allegations, Gala Honoring Political Donor Will Go OnUnder his bail agreement, Charles Kushner, the real estate mogul and political fund raiser arrested last week for allegedly hiring a call girl in an effort to blackmail a witness, is not allowed to leave his home state of New Jersey. But he will still be one of the guests of honor at a fund-raising gala next month in Israel for Jerusalem’s…Read more