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(JTA) — When Nadiv Schorer and Ariel Meiri were married on Sunday, the rabbi standing with them under the wedding canopy was breaking new ground, too. For Avram Mlotek, a rabbi affiliated with a progressive wing of Orthodox Judaism, it was the first time he had performed a wedding for two people of the same […]
(JTA) — It was a rough welcome for Mike Bloomberg. The one-time Republican took a beating Wednesday night from the five other candidates on the Democratic debate stage in Las Vegas, who took aim at the former New York City mayor’s record on policing, treatment of women and support for workers. The onslaught against Bloomberg […]
Can it still be the Bread of Affliction if it’s not bone dry, tasteless and nearly impossible to swallow? The great-great-great granddaughter of the man who first began producing the flat, square matzah slice on the Lower East Side is testing that culinary (and halachic) proposition. Naomi Baine, a speech-language pathologist in Providence, R.I., and […]