Exclusive interview with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy
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When Phil Murphy ascended the stage at his victory party in November of 2017, it wasn’t just a sprint, but more of a flying leap, perhaps a throwback to his days as a musical theater performer at Harvard University.
But there was something more in the dance move.
Phil Murphy’s story is one of boundless energy, ever since he took a job washing dishes to earn extra money as a high school student in Boston. His parents were “middle-class on a good day” by his own retelling, but they wanted their children to be educated, and all the Murphy children got college degrees. In Phil’s case, it was an economics degree from Harvard and then a master’s degree from Wharton, after which he interned at Goldman Sachs, where he would make his career for the next two decades.
The pandemic is making visible how important religious liberty is to Orthodox Jews in America
Orthodox Jewish men exit a yeshiva in Brooklyn s Borough Park, Sept. 29, 2020.
(JTA) - In the more than 30 years that Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel has worked at Agudath Israel, an umbrella organization and advocacy group representing haredi Orthodox Jews, he can t remember a single year where as much of the group s work took place in court.
There was the lawsuit challenging New York State for applying different standards on attendance at houses of worship than at businesses. Agudath Israel filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs.