admin | June 5, 2021
(JTA) Rabbi Adar, is it dangerous to wear my Jewish star? In 12 years of teaching Introduction to the Jewish Experience through HaMaqom|The Place in the San Francisco Bay Area, no student ever asked me that question in those words
admin | June 5, 2021
US Jewry is changing and its heading in two different directions.
admin | June 5, 2021
For Jews around the world, the last few weeks have been chilling. A surge of anti-Semitism, including physical attacks against Jews, has swept the United States, Canada, and Europe. In Los Angeles, diners at a kosher restaurant were spat upon, while an explosive device was thrown at Jews in Manhattans Diamond District.
admin | June 5, 2021
There is a curious dynamic known as blaming the victim. For example, a battered wife may be accused of being difficult or threatening to an abusive spouse thereby being accused of instigating the conflict and earning her spouse the role of being the victim. She, then, is labelled the perpetrator her spouse the victim.
admin | June 5, 2021
By Benjamin David, Peter Buchsbaum and Nilene Evans A year ago, many of New Jersey Reform Jews left home after months of lockdown. We could not stay inside following the murder of George Floyd. Across the state, faith leaders and advocates, young and old, said it clearly: Black lives matter
admin | June 5, 2021
A little over four years ago we in Free Givatayim began our struggle against the brand-new Garin Torani literally, a Torah nucleus or core group that had arrived in our city then from the West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Yericho. Alongside many citizens who quickly recognized this problem, there were also those who were scornful of our struggle and wondered why we were getting so upset about a few religious families coming to live in our city.
admin | June 5, 2021
The hatred with which Israelis have been inundated recently amid the political battles to form the next government has prompted many to seek solace in the most mundane places. Many took comfort in the musical collaboration of Haredi singer Avraham Fried and devout secularist Aviv Geffen, others in the warm words of presidential hopeful Miriam Peretz when she said love and unity were the need of the hour.
admin | June 3, 2021
In the first decade of the 1900s, Eastern European immigrants who headed west faced restrictive housing covenants that barred many Jews from relocating in certain areas. In Los Angeles by the 1920s, about 90% of housing stock was governed by restrictive racial housing covenants. But Boyle Heights was one of the few neighborhoods that did not have the covenants.
admin | June 3, 2021
Rabbi Adar, is it dangerous to wear my Jewish star? In 12 years of teaching Introduction to the Jewish Experience through HaMaqom|The Place in the San Francisco Bay Area, no student ever asked me that question in those words.
admin | June 3, 2021
JTA When Eric Lander was sworn in Wednesday as the White Houses first-ever Cabinet-level science adviser, the geneticist also made Jewish history by taking his oath of office on a 500-year-old copy of a Jewish text filled with ethical precepts. Lander chose a 1492 edition of Pirkei Avot from the Library of Congress holdings after searching for a swearing-in volume that reflected his Jewish and professional values, he told Vice President Kamala Harris at the ceremony.
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