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Lincoln Square Synagogue Cantor Sherwood Goffin. (courtesy)
April 5, 2019, 9:32 am
Renowned Manhattan cantor Sherwood Goffin dies aged 77
Over his 50-year career, Goffin served at Lincoln Square Synagogue, recorded albums, played Carnegie Hall and was a teacher of Jewish liturgy
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, during a prayer service held in celebration of his renewed appointment as the settlement rabbi after a long battle with the chief rabbinate on July 6, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
November 16, 2018, 3:09 am
For a liberal Orthodox educational network in Israel, it’s the end of an era
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin steps down as head of vast Israeli educational network 35 years after founding it
By JTA
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, left, speaking with journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn, September 12, 2018. (Matthew Sussman for Hannah Senesh Community Day School via JTA)
September 14, 2018, 12:10 am
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan talks of her ‘very strange Jewish upbringing’
Speaking at day school, top judge says she had a bat mitzvah at a modern Orthodox synagogue but did not grow up in a religiously observant home
By Josefin Dolsten
January 9, 2016, 5:32 am
NYC restaurateur claims synagogue threatened to pull his kashrut
Joseph Allaham says Lincoln Square Synagogue wants him to settle $1.8 million lawsuit in religious court, which shul’s rabbi oversees
By JTA
Illustrative: Police in New York. (CC BY/Andre Gustavo Stumpf/Flickr)
November 4, 2015, 7:50 am
NY: Accused murderer of wife said to confess to girlfriend
Roderick Covlin, 42, arraigned on suspicion of killing Shele Danishefsky Covlin in 2009
By JTA
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