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Yesterday — 20 December 2025Main stream

Emily Korzenik, 96, Dies; Rabbi Took a Bar Mitzvah to Poland

20 December 2025 at 06:46
Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly.

© Thomas McDonald for The New York Times

Rabbi Emily Faust Korzenik in Stamford, Conn., in 2003. For 25 years she presided over the Fellowship for Jewish Learning, a congregation there.
Before yesterdayMain stream

In China, Victims of Abuse Are Told to ‘Keep It in the Family’

6 November 2025 at 13:01
Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack of resources and political will.
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