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In his column, “Raining On The Parade” (June 15), Gary Rosenblatt expressed his frustration and disappointment at “the missing majority of New York Jews” from the June 3 Celebrate Israel Parade. However, Rosenblatt also managed to malign a group of Jewish attendees who are arguably among the Jewish state’s strongest supporters. He wrote: “A few […]

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Two religious accommodation cases last week that involved Orthodox Jews — a prospective Sabbath-observant employee of a New York-based consulting firm, and a chasidic Jew whose beard threatens to keep him out of the New York Police Department — are part of an ongoing tug of war between employers and religious workers, says the veteran […]

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“See You At The Parade” (Editorial, June 1) compliments the organizers for “fending off critics from the right and left who weigh in on who they feel should and should not be marching.” Not exactly. The real issue is not “different points of view,” but contradictory community policies as to how to deal with Jews […]

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