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Intermarriage debate divides Jewish rabbis; is Mormon model a remedy?

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:57:07 MDT

Intermarriage debate divides Jewish rabbis; is Mormon model a remedy?

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated May 24, 2013 01:57PM MDT

Should someone married to a non-Jew become a rabbi? The question has arisen among Reform Jews at this time because Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the movement’s central rabbinical school, is reconsidering a policy requiring that prospective students sign an agreement that “any student engaged, married, or partnered/committed to a person who is not Jewish by birth or conversion will not be admitted or ordained.” Dana Evan Kaplan, a rabbi in Kingston, Jamaica, supports the poli...

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Collins: Somebody did something

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Collins: Somebody did something

By GAIL COLLINS The New York Times

Updated May 24, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Whenever the world of Washington seems hopeless, someone will point out that the Senate Judiciary Committee did a good job on immigration reform. That’s it? Yeah, pretty much. Immigration reform has been the 2013 bipartisan bright spot in the Senate, unless you were really moved by the day they voted to debate gun control before killing all the gun control plans. The committee members cheerfully plowed through 300-odd proposed amendments, while taking turns telling which country their great-gran...

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Senate panel OKs landmark immigration bill with Hatch on board

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:31:35 MDT

Senate panel OKs landmark immigration bill with Hatch on board

By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 22, 2013 09:31AM MDT

Washington • A Senate panel passed a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday evening, which Sen. Orrin Hatch supported after the committee accepted his changes to a visa program for highly skilled workers. The bill offers the largest re-write of the nation’s immigration laws since the 1980s, spending billions of dollars on border security, creating a 13-year path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants and requiring every employer to check the immigration status of workers. Tuesday’s 13-5 vo...

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Dreamers press Senate panel on immigration bill

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:06:59 MDT

Dreamers press Senate panel on immigration bill

By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 21, 2013 11:06PM MDT

Washington • Itza Hernandez came to the United States as a 4-year-old girl on a vacation with her family. That was 17 years ago. Now she’s a politically engaged woman living in Salt Lake City without legal status, and she’s following every twist and turn of a Senate bill that, if passed, would offer her, her family members and friends an eventual path to citizenship. Through the group United We Dream, Hernandez traveled to Washington, D.C., to observe the Senate Judiciary Committee’s debate on a...

Boomers need immigrants

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Boomers need immigrants

By XXXXXX The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT

The Senate Judiciary Committee took up comprehensive immigration reform late last week. And, as expected, opponents are already rushing to derail it, arguing that any bill that legalizes the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States will cost billions of dollars and place an unfair burden on taxpayers. Such arguments are merely scare tactics. There’s no doubt that granting citizenship to millions of immigrants 13 years from now, as the Senate bill would, will carry a cost, b...