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Ivanka Trump has been quiet on Twitter the past few days while observing the Jewish holiday Shavuot. On Thursday, she broke her silence, sending out messages of support for her LGBTQ friends. "Logging back on after Shavuot, wishing everyone a joyful #Pride2017," Ivanka wrote in the first tweet. "This month we celebrate and honor the #LGBTQ community." "I am proud to support my LGBTQ friends," Ivanka shared in the second, "and the LGBTQ Americans who have made immense contributions to our society and economy." The shout-out to gay rights backfired. Many slammed her for tweeting about Pride Month hours after...

When Rabbi David Stav launched his official campaign last month to wrest control of Israel's top religious institution from its longtime hardline leadership, it was a long shot. >>SNIP<< Stav, a 53-year-old father of nine, heads a private network of modern Orthodox rabbis that is virtually an alternative organization to Israel's state-sanctioned rabbinical bureaucracy. It seeks to put a friendly face on Jewish traditions for secular Israeli Jews alienated by the ultra-Orthodox functionaries that regulate religious services. The organization, called Tzohar, has gained popularity among secular Israelis with its program that sends rabbis free of charge to officiate at weddings....

....Now the damage is certain to be intense among the Modern Orthodox. While a variety of Jewish charities and foundations suffered large losses with Mr. Madoff, and while the ripple effect of that vanished wealth will be felt throughout American Jewry, the conspicuous fact remains that no institutions explicitly, or even implicitly, affiliated with Reform, Conservative or Reconstructionist Judaism had investments with Mr. Madoff.....