JTA Religion

AJC: Berlin decision on circumcision too restrictive

The American Jewish Committee condemned a decision earlier this week by the state of Berlin that places restrictions on circumcisions.

Chabad will host massive rabbinical ordination

Chabad-Lubavitch’s Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, N.J., plans to ordain 280 new rabbis at an event that the movement is billing as the largest ordination class in the modern era.

Jews petition Montenegro for synagogue for tiny community

Two Jewish organizational leaders asked Montenegro’s president to help the Balkan country’s small Jewish community build a synagogue.

Politics

Meir Soloveichik vs. David Wolpe: Two rabbis, two parties, two political philosophies

Global

German state of Berlin declares circumcision legal

Politics

The week in politics: Dueling convention rabbis, Nazi name-dropping, Huckabee vs. DWS

Ideas

Op-Ed: New Year’s holidays offer a universal message

Global

New Dutch translation of Talmud a tribute to Friesland’s nearly vanished Jews

Israel

Tel Aviv bike program’s funding threatened over Yom Kippur rentals

United States

N.Y. rabbis decry upcoming vote on consent waiver for circumcision-related rite

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