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Jews in Salem mourn death of rabbi killed in India terrorist attacks
Published November 29, 2008, 3:25 am, Salem Statesman Journal
At their weekly Shabbat dinner Friday evening in West Salem, the Perlstein family lit an extra candle in memory of a rabbi who died during terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
Chabad mourns its loss
Published November 28, 2008, 11:12 pm, Los Angeles Times
Leaders in Brooklyn and Westwood are stunned at the deaths of a young rabbi and his wife in the terrorist attack on their Chabad center in Mumbai. Groups of bearded men in black blazers and wide-brimmed hats prayed aloud and chanted inside the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn on Friday, grieving the loss of friends killed in the terrorist siege in India this week.
Rabbi, wife 'spread Jewish pride' in Mumbai
Published November 28, 2008, 2:52 pm, CNN
Chabad House served as both a Jewish center and a rabbi's home, in Mumbai, India, but the building turned into a scene of carnage this week after five hostages held by gunmen inside were found dead.
Updated 11/28: Skokie Lubavitch Chabad members mourn couple killed in Mumbai
Published November 28, 2008, 2:42 pm, Skokie Review
Some members of Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie had met Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, India, who were among the more-than 125 people killed over the last few days by militant terrorists.
Folklorist explores Superman’s Jewish roots
Published November 28, 2008, 12:40 pm, Somerville Journal
From Superman to Spiderman, who were the creators of America’s great superheroes and fantasy characters? Join folklorist Joshua Breindel Thursday, Dec. 11, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. as he explores the Jewish roots of American fantasy and science fiction, from Vulcans to Batman, from robots to wizards.
Israeli Film Causes Second Looks at World of the Ultra-Orthodox
Published November 28, 2008, 1:23 am, New York Times
?The Secrets? treads some touchy and sometimes uncharted territory for the ultra-Orthodox: women?s rights, lesbian love and kabbalah.
Academy of Jewish Religion offers alternate path to rabbinate for 16 new grads
Published November 27, 2008, 3:44 am, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
This year in Los Angeles, the Reform Movement's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Region ordained 16 new rabbis. The Conservative Movement's Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies ordained 10. And the Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR, CA) ordained 11.
Embracing gays in the family
Published November 26, 2008, 9:32 am, Cleveland Jewish News
In 2004, Stephen Weiss, senior rabbi of Conservative congregation B’nai Jeshurun, gave a sermon denouncing Ohio’s passage of a federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, thereby, denying a basic constitutional right to gays and lesbians.
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