Hebrew Congregations

• Paul G. Thomasson, Lieutenant, United States Navy, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense; John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy, Defendants-Appellees, Union of American Hebrew Congregations; the American Jewish Congress; National Organization for Women; Now Legal Defense and Education Fund; Center for Women Policy Studies; National Lesbian and Gay Law Association; Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders; American Civil Liberties Union; Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; Servicemembers Legal Defense Network; Iaomai, Incorporated; Family Research Council; Iota Legal Defense Fund, Amici Curiae., 80 F.3d 915 (4th Cir. 1996)

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Claude M. Hilton, District Judge. (CA-95-252-A). AR...

• Federal Circuits

• Commack Self-Service Kosher Meats, Inc., D/B/a Commack Kosher, Brian Yarmeisch and Jeffrey Yarmeisch, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Rabbi Luzer Weiss, as Director of the Kosher Law Enforcement Division of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Defendant- Appellant, Hon. Sheldon Silver, Abe Alper, Jon Greenfield, Jack Lee, Rabbi Moshe Portnoy, Richard Schwartz, Agudath Harabonim of the United States and Canada, Agudath Israel of America, National Council of Young Israel, Rabbinical Alliance of America, Rabbinical Council of America, Torah Umesorah National Society of Hebrew Day School and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants., 294 F.3d 415 (2nd Cir. 2002)

Robert Jay Dinerstein, Dinerstein & Lesser, P.C., Commack, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees. Caitlin Halligan, First Deputy Solicitor General of the Stat...

• Federal Circuits

• Letters

The pope said: "Just as we take note of the 'covenant never revoked by God' so we should consider the intrinsic value of the Old Testament, even if this only acquires its full meaning in the light of the New Testament and contains promises that are fulfilled in Jesus." [...] Donahue quotes appreciatively his fellow exegete, Luke Timothy Johnson, to the effect that Christians need to learn from Jews so that we might appreciate better our own heritage. Commissioned by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the University of Cincinnati's College Music Conservatory in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Gates uses biblical texts, excerpts from King's speeches, Negro spirituals, and sayings from Hillel - selected and edited by Brubeck's wife lola and set to Jazz, Middle...

• Commonweal
• September 08, 2009

• Public Funds for Public Schools of New Jersey, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Inc., Americans for Democratic Action, New Jersey Region of American Jewish Congress, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Trenton Area Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, National Council of Jewish Women, New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers, New Jersey Education Association, Society of Separationists, New Jersey Chapter, Teaneck Citizens for Public Schools, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Gilbert S. Barnes, Linda B. Capelson, Fred E. Clever, Susan P. Coen, Warren D. Cummings, Rita D'Joseph, John H. Ford, Ruth D. Glick, David Goldberg, Lawrence Haas, John C. Hazen, Alexander H. Holman, John Pintard Horchner, W. Clifford Jones, Merle H. Kalishman, Judith S. Knee, Libby B. Korenstein, Wendy F. Korenstein, Jo Kotula, Phyllis A. Minch, Edna B. Norris, Allan S. Olsen, Donald C. Osborne, Rose Paull, Penny Pistilli, Doro..., 590 F.2d 514 (3rd Cir. 1979)

Samuel M. Koenigsberg, Montclair, N. J., Leo Pfeffer, New York City, for appellees. James P. Beggans, Jr., pro se. Appeal from the United States Dist...

• Federal Circuits

• 'We'll Break Their Legs'

TWENTY YEARS AGO, AS READERS OF THE "1988" column in these pages have been recently reminded, Yitzhak Rabin, then Israel's Defense Minister, was faced with the task of quelling Arab rioting against Israel in what was then known as the Administered Territories. Frustrated at his inability to achieve success, Rabin initiated an "iron fist" policy of "force, including beatings" against rioters and stone-throwers, in an attempt to stop the violence. Led by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Reform), Israel was told that its policy was "an offense to the Jewish spirit ... violates every principle of human decency ... and betrays the Zionist dream." Others, from Israel's Peace Now to the U.S. State Department, joined in chastising Israel.

• Chicago Jewish Star
• August 24, 2009

• Efforts at Jewish-Muslim Understanding Grow Despite Attempts to Demonize Islam

Recalls Rabbi Bruce M. Lustig, senior rabbi at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, one of the largest Jewish congregations in North America with more than 3,000 families served: Shortly after 9/11, I invited Bishop John Chane (Episcopal bishop of Greater Washington and the National Cathedral) and professor Akbar Ahmed (Ibn Khaldun scholar of Islamic studies at American University) to share with them the idea of starting an Abrahamic faith dialogue. According to Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, who helped establish the weekend, the goal is to "create a paradigm of Jewish-Muslim support that we can export to other parts of the world...We must take advantage of these opportunities, especially within the Muslim world, where we are now b...

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 2, March 2009

• Rev. Bill Mclean; Bishop Ken Hicks; Right Rev. Herbert Donovan; Most Rev. Andrew J. Mcdonald; Bishop Frederick C. James; Rev. Nathan Porter, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of Joel Randolph Porter; Rev. George W. Gunn; Dr. Richard B. Hardie, Jr.; Rev. Earl B. Carter; Rev. George Tanner; Dr. John P. Miles; Rev. Jerry Canada; the American Jewish Congress; the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Frances C. Roelfs; Charles Bowlus, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of Cordelia Ann and Christopher Felix; Lon Schultz, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of Andrea Schultz; the Arkansas Education Association; the National Association of Biology Teachers; E.E. Hudson; Mike Wilson; the American Jewish Committee; National Coalition for Public Education and Religious Liberty, Appellees, v. the Arkansas Board of Education; Wayne Hartsfield; Mrs. James Chestnutt; Harry A. Haines; Walter Turnbow; Jim Dupree; Dr. Harry T. Mcdonald; Robert Newton; Alice L. Preston..., 723 F.2d 45 (8th Cir. 1984)

E. Richard Larson, Jack D. Novik, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, Robert M. Cearley, Jr., Cearley, Mitchell & Roachell, Phil...

• Federal Circuits

• People

Gary Bretton-Granatoor, ADL's Director of lnterfaith Affairs since 2004, is ADL's new Director of Education. Previously, Gary was Senior Rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, and held several high-level positions with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC). He has also been a lecturer at the New York University School of Continuing Education and a faculty member at the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) School of Education. Gary received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where he also served on the faculty, and his Master's from HUC. Alan Potash is ADL's new Plains States Regional Director, based in Omaha. Previously, Alan served as Director of ADL's Austin (TX) Community Office as well as the Jewish Community Association of Austin...

• ADL on the Frontline
• Vol. 16 Nbr. 7-9, October 2006

• 1986

NEW YORK, October 28 The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has received a check for $1,178.86 from Lyndon LaRouche - a court-ordered payment to cover out-of-pocket expenses incurred by ADL during the political extremist's failed libel suit against the agency. WASHINGTON, D.C., October 27 - The Orthodox Agudath Israel of America and the Reform Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in a rare cooperative effort, have helped ensure that persons wearing yarmulkes will never be barred from the Senate's visitors' galleries.

• Chicago Jewish Star
• August 12, 2009

• Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989)

... Leadership Conference, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, United Church of Christ Commission ...

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