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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Ramaz School

In this courtroom artist's sketch, defendant Jeffrey Epstein, center, sits with attorneys Martin Weinberg, left, and Marc Fernich during his arraignment in New York federal court, July 8, 2019. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
July 25, 2019, 5:50 pm
Jeffrey Epstein donated $500,000 to Orthodox NYC high school
Manhattan’s Ramaz School acknowledges 2007 gift, vows to be more careful in accepting major gifts in future
By Ben Sales
A view of the Ramaz school in New York. (Google Street View via JTA)
August 31, 2018, 5:49 pm
Prestigious New York Jewish school apologizes for ignoring molestation reports
Ramaz administrators didn’t alert other schools when they heard allegations against a former teacher
By JTA
A view of the Ramaz school in New York. (Google Street View via JTA)
February 28, 2018, 1:07 am
Prominent NY Jewish day school to back rallies for gun control
Manhattan’s Ramaz school co-signs letter to Trump protesting gun violence, gives support to planned student walkouts
By Ben Sales
A woman prays at a makeshift memorial on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 3, 2017, after a gunman killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 others when he opened fire from a hotel window on a country music festival. (AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck)
October 4, 2017, 4:16 am
Las Vegas Jews rally for victims in wake of shooting
Synagogues hold vigils, collect goods and raise money in aftermath of Sunday massacre; two Jewish women injured
By JTA
Jared Kushner attends the premiere of “A Film Unfinished” at MOMA – Celeste Bartos Theater in New York City, Aug. 11, 2010. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images via JTA)
December 6, 2016, 5:19 am
Jared Kushner’s parents donated tens of thousands to settlement groups
Trump’s son-in-law sits on board of parents’ foundation; grantees also include Israeli hospitals, US Jewish schools
By JTA
After Israel’s Chief Rabbinate rejected a conversion performed by prominent modern Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein (right), Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky (left) protested on his behalf. (Ben Sales/JTA)
July 15, 2016, 8:53 pm
Ivanka Trump’s rabbi ducks out of Republican convention speech
Haskel Lookstein says his decision was made once speakers were announced and ‘whole matter turned from rabbinic to political’
By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
July 6, 2016, 3:41 pm
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
Lookstein was there for Sharansky
A sense of Jewish responsibility freed Soviet Jews; now, it must unify world Jewry across the Israel-Diaspora divide
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein vowing to rebuild after a fire at Kehilath Jeshurun caused major damage to his New York synagogue, July 11, 2011. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images/via JTA)
August 4, 2015, 4:27 pm
Celebrated NY shul to begin new era with ‘outsider’ rabbi
After 100 years with the Lookstein family, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun will inaugurate a new rabbi and a renovated sanctuary
By Uriel Heilman
Lindenbaum Seminary (Midrasha) in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 14, 2015, 5:19 pm
Champion for religious women’s rights dies at 76
Colleagues, Jewish leader praise the late Belda Lindenbaum, founder of an eponymous Orthodox army-study program
By JTA
Former Florida gov. Jeb Bush (center), mingles at a 'Politics and Eggs' event, a breakfast fixture for 2016 presidential prospects, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, Friday, April 17, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Elise Amendola)
April 24, 2015, 4:51 am
Likely GOP contender Jeb Bush calls Iran deal ‘naive’
In talk at NY Jewish school, former Florida governor assails White House handling of Tehran, distances self from James Baker
By JTA
Rabbi Eric Grossman, who has been named to head Ramaz (photo courtesy of Rabbi Eric Grossman/JTA)
March 11, 2015, 8:07 am
Ramaz picks an outsider to head Manhattan Jewish school
Canada native Rabbi Eric Grossman will take over as principal of preparatory-style modern Orthodox institution
By Uriel Heilman
Illustrative: A child receives a vaccination shot (Shutterstock/JTA)
January 26, 2015, 12:53 am
At day schools, anti-vaxxers surge even as disease spreads
Vaccinations rely on ‘herd immunity’ for efficacy. What happens when up to 26% of the flock opt out?
By Anthony Weiss
A Women of the Wall member dons a kippa and tefillin, Jewish ritual garb traditionally reserved for men (Flash90)
March 10, 2014, 1:13 am
Women of the Wall don tefillin in TLV
Female activists for religious equality bring their efforts to the boisterous Carmel Market
By Ben Sales
A Jewish Voice for Peace activist protests outside New York City's 14th Street Y in May 2012 after the Jewish institution canceled a 'Go and Learn' event organized by the group's youth arm that was scheduled for a rented room in the Y's building. (Courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace/JTA)
February 27, 2014, 10:23 pm
Where to draw red lines with criticism of Israel?
In hosting critics, Jewish institutions are damned if they do and damned if they don’t
By Uriel Heilman
Rashid Khalidi seen here speaking at Brooklyn Law School at an event hosted by the National Lawyers Guild. January 23, 2009. (Next Left Notes, Thomas Good / NLN/ via wikipedia)
February 24, 2014, 12:43 pm
NY Orthodox high school nixes Rashid Khalidi talk
Columbia U. prof with PLO connections deemed ‘not the right partner for dialogue with high school students’
By JTA
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