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Novelist Michael Chabon Against Jewish Endogamy

May 30, 2018May 28, 2018 | by Eliyahu Mintz

Michael Chabon signing his book at a book signing in 2006

We already knew that novelist Michael Chabon and wife Ayelet Waldman are not on Israel’s side in the Arab war against the Jews. But now Chabon has come out against Jews marrying Jews. Significantly, he did so in an address to the latest graduating class reform rabbis at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion …

Liberal Jews

Banning Carlebach’s Music for One Year

February 14, 2018February 13, 2018 | by Eliyahu Mintz

One synagogue is banning the music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach for a period of one year, because of allegations of abuse toward the late rabbi and singer songwriter. This is the era of #MeToo, which means that such allegations are accepted without question. Even when they concern a dead person who cannot give testimony. Banning …