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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:11 p.m. Torah: Genesis 28:10-32:3 Haftarah: Hosea 11:17-12:14 (Sephard); 12:13-14:10 (Ashkenaz) Havdalah: 5:14 p.m. ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to now than I have ever known.” So says Sidney Carton, in […]

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Rabbi Susie Heneson Moskowitz will be installed Dec. 4 as president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis, the first woman to hold that position. The group serves about 160 rabbis on the Island from all streams of Judaism. Rabbi Moskowitz, 47, has been the associate rabbi at Temple Beth Torah in Melville for the […]

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During a recent conversation about the circumstances, future and significance of Israel for liberally minded North American Jews, the 20-something scion of a prestigious American Jewish family, with long Jewish and Zionist credentials, made a clearly painful confession; “To tell you the truth, Israel disgusts me.” While I am well practiced in arguing with many […]

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