admin | July 17, 2017
NEW HAVEN > > Rabbi Yosef Kalmenson, the revered dean at Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo, said the rabbinic school was given a unique blessing when it opened 45 years ago. The late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Rebbe and spiritual leader of Hasidic Jews, said of the new school that we should always be tight and be growing, said Kalmenson, a Talmudic scholar and author of 22 books on the subject.
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simmons | July 17, 2017
Women from the Jewish community of Carpentras chatting while preparing for Shabbat at the towns synagogue, July 7, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz ) CARPENTRAS, France (JTA) The synagogue in this Provence town is Western Europes oldest functioning Jewish house of worship and one of theprettiest on the continent. The Synagogue of Carpentras, which this year is celebrating its 650th anniversary,has a Baroque-style interior and a gold-ornamented hall with a blue domed ceiling
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simmons | July 17, 2017
by Rabbi Daniel Bouskila | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured | 0 Comments What is the larger purpose of a rabbi in society? Are rabbis only concerned with the kashrut of pots and pans, or does the kashrut of business practices also matter? Must a rabbi tend to a broken heart and soul as much as he tends to a broken Eruv before Shabbat
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admin | July 17, 2017
LONDON Those close to the Rabbi Joseph Dweck affair have described is as a behemoth of an issue. Its a suitably biblical term for what might seem, on the face of it, an arcane spat between British religious scholars over the permissibility or not of homosexuality. But, in fact, the repercussions of a lecture which seemingly condoned homosexual relationships that Dweck delivered in London this past May go far beyond that
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richards | July 17, 2017
Speaking at a ceremony commemorating the victims of the mass roundup of Jews in Paris in WWII, the French president assailed Le Pen and said France must take responsibility for the Vichy regime and Nazi collaboration PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron delivered forceful remarks on Sunday at a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from Paris, attacking his political rival Marine Le Pen and other figures who claimed that the Vichy government which collaborated with the Nazis during WWII didn't represent France. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the ceremony in Paris alongside Macron
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admin | July 17, 2017
Some see Nechama Shaina Langer as quite the outlaw in the Hasidic world. But thats not how she sees herself. The eldest daughter of Rabbi Yosef and Hinda Langer, co-directors of Chabad of San Francisco, has forged her own path from the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch world she grew up in to one of her own making that is feminist, progressive, outspoken and thoughtful.
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simmons | July 17, 2017
In late June, 19 rabbis gathered in New York City for an urgent meeting. It wasnt secret, exactly, but it certainly wasnt public. The Jewish leadersall members of the Conservative movements Rabbinical Assembly, except for twowere there to decide what to do about intermarriage.
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simmons | July 16, 2017
CARPENTRAS, France (JTA) The synagogue in this Provence town is Europes oldest functioning Jewish house of worship and one of theprettiest on the continent. The Synagogue of Carpentras, which this year is celebrating its 650th anniversary,has a Baroque-style interior and a gold-ornamented hall with a blue domed ceiling. The rabbis pulpit is, unusually, on a balcony that overlooks the pews and the Torah ark the work of thenon-Jews who built the synagogue in a Christian style in the16th century atop its earlier structure, which was first established in 1367
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richards | July 16, 2017
Oral Literature of the Sephardic Jews Samuel G. Armistead, University of California, Davis The edict by which all Jews were exiled from Castile and Aragon was signed by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabel, on March 31, 1492 (Baer 1961-1966: II, 433). But we should not think of this banishment, radical and catastrophic as it surely was, as an altogether sudden, definitive occurrence.
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admin | July 16, 2017
Youtube The Hasidic education reform group Yaffed, led by Naftuli Moster, says it will release a report later this summer on secular education in Hasidic schools.
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