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A flagship liberal Orthodox synagogue in New York will stop congratulating same-sex couples on their weddings following a complaint by the Orthodox Union. The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx will no longer announce the weddings of its LGBT members in its newsletters in accordance with a policy dictated by the OU, the largest association of Orthodox synagogues in the United States. The policy was set out this month in response to complaints from other member synagogues, which take a harder line on opposing same-sex marriage. Orthodox Jewish law, or halacha, prohibits same-sex marriage, and Orthodox rabbis are not...

For those of you who are political junkies here, you must have been noticing something really odd around here lately. A bunch of good FReepers have turned into illogical Huckabee supporters. No matter how hard we try to talk some sense into them that Huckabee is not a conservative, they still argue that he is one, just like President Reagan. Some may lie to themselves; others may lie to us about what they really believe. I encountered an honest Huckabee supporter a few days ago. His worldview is quite disturbing. He feels he is being ignored by the "secular Republican...