richards | August 2, 2017
August 2, 2017 by Felicity Boardman, The Conversation Credit: gopixa/Shutterstock The ability to cheaply and quickly sequence entire genomes is changing the way diseases are identified and treated. But it is also likely to change the way we make some of the most important and personal decisions of our lives: how, and with whom, we have children.
richards | August 2, 2017
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 For women only. All women welcome
simmons | August 2, 2017
Video-sharing website YouTube seems to be systematically purging conservatives and others who challenge politically correct orthodoxy from its platform. Free speech activists across the internet were shocked on Tuesday after YouTube appeared to suspend the account of noted psychology professor Jordan B
simmons | August 2, 2017
Three decades ago, Rabbi Mendy Cohen decided to study Torah. Seven years ago, he decided to read the entire Talmud 2,711 pages to be exact.
simmons | August 2, 2017
On the list of Things a Good Jew Should Do, fasting on Tisha BAv ranks pretty low on my list. Now, before my rabbi has a minor heart attack, I should confess that despite my misgivings, like many observant Jews around the world, I will be refraining from eating, drinking, bathing, wearing leather shoes and engaging in marital relations with my nonexistent spouse from sundown tonight until an hour after sundown tomorrow.
admin | August 2, 2017
Aug 2 2017 The bad news I just received is that it is a "mainstream" Muslim view that the Dajjal, the "Anti Christ", "the deceiver", "the imposter", who will bring humanity to its knees prior to the End of Days, will be Jewish. The good news is that it can't be me - because I don't have "enough hair". I was visiting a number of bookshops in Sydney's Bankstown, talking with scholars-on-duty and discussing attitudes towards Jews.
simmons | August 2, 2017
WEST NYACK, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- RustyBrick, Inc. is excited to share that its ShulCloud product has reached 613 active subscribers of the popular cloud-based synagogue management software.
simmons | August 2, 2017
Jewish Chronicle (blog) Secret Shul Goer No 4 - Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue Jewish Chronicle (blog) In some ways, Kol Nefesh Masorti isn't really a synagogue at all. It doesn't own its own building. It has a part-time Rabbi
richards | August 2, 2017
getty images Uneasy Balance : A Jewish man prays near an entrance to the Temple Mount. Right-wing Israelis are demanding access to the holy site, which could tip an uneasy balance between faiths. JERUSALEM (JTA) Israels Sephardi chief rabbi and Jordans foreign minister criticized the record number of Jews who visited the Temple Mount on Tisha BAv.
simmons | August 2, 2017
A manhole cover in a Jewish district of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Photograph: Danita Delimont/Alamy More than five centuries after King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella expelled Spains Jewish population, the still-spoken language of the exiles is to be formally honoured by the countrys leading linguistic authority
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