Yeshiva Student

by Larry Lefkowitz

July 27, 2010

He did not stop as was his custom to read the notices pasted on the wall, not even one signed by the rabbinical council which denoted a matter of extreme importance. Once he would have devoured such a message – perhaps there would be a demonstration. For a respected yeshiva student like himself, one who drove himself to excel, demonstrations were a way of clearing his head, in addition to performing a mitzvah.

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An Impending Split? The Ultra-Orthodox and Everyone Else

by Daniel E. Levenson, ALM

July 27, 2010

Over the past few months things have been heating up in the Israel political and judicial system over the question of who is a Jew, and in a larger sense, who gets to make that decision. Apparently this is such a big story that even the New York Times has devoted digital ink to it, with reporter Ethan Bronner noting in a piece on the NY Times website that: “The more liberal forms of Jewish practice advocated by the Reform and Conservative movements, with which most American Jews are affiliated, have never taken root here. Israel has left liturgy in the hands of the Orthodox, with most Israeli Jews leading almost completely secular lives, seeking out rabbis only at birth, marriage and death.”

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