admin | July 19, 2024
President Javier Milei of Argentina is a Catholic who leads Pope Francis native country. He also regularly studies the Torah, attends Shabbat dinner and has said that perhaps his most important adviser is his rabbi. Over the past several years, Mr.
admin | July 19, 2024
When Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp appeared on an episode of the Judaism Unbound podcast last year to talk about her new online Jewish conversion class, she didnt know that two listeners would soon change the trajectory of her life. Those listeners, Ari Kingsman and Joshua Phillips, were cellmates inside the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington State with a shared interest in Judaism
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Growing up in the early aughts, I loved watching Braceface. It was an animated TV show that found a special place in my heart and one that my parents appreciated too because it was, according to them, wise. The protagonist, Sharon Spitz, was more relatable to me than any other fictional teenage girl in popular culture.
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Like other forms of predatory behavior, there are common motivations that link fundamentalist Islamist terrorists and fundamentalist Christian missionaries. Both actively pursue the Jewish people individually and as a nation. Jihadists aspire to physically eradicate the Jews and their progeny, and missionaries hope to absorb and consume them spiritually
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Introduction to Judaism is a free 21-week course of Lappin Foundation in partnership with the North Shore Rabbis and Cantors Association, designed for individuals of faiths other than Judaism who want to explore Judaism or who are considering conversion to Judaism. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week. For those considering conversion, please note the following: Sponsoring Rabbi or Cantor Individuals who are taking the course for conversion to Judaism are required to have a sponsoring rabbi or cantor
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Listening as the Foundation for Repositioning Brand Judaism Fundamental to any repositioning of a brand is the need to do extensive research and listen to all constituencies and audiences. Often, it is most important to focus on the core usersin our case, us Jews. To successfully rebrand Judaism, we must embrace the principle of Shema: Listen
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This article was produced as part ofJTAs Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. This summer, I will be a counselor at the camp Ive attended for the last eight years. Its where I formed my Jewish identity and my love for the community that Jewish values foster
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The Rebbe Rayatz shared ideas for making order out of chaos on American shores After his imprisonment in the Soviet Union and his exile from his beloved chassidim behind the Iron Curtain, Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the sixth Lubavitch Rebbe, didn't fall into despair. With indefatigable energy, he left for the United States, to help those left behind, and to galvanize Jews there to forge a Torah society in the New World
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Photograph Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy CC BY 2.0 One of the oddest arguments made by self-declared friends of Israel is that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. That assertion is comprehensible if the person making it believes that God Himself gave the Jews property rights from the river to the sea butTheodore Herzl and the founders of modern Zionism embraced no such belief. On the contrary, that movements largely secularized leadership defined Zionism from the outset as a form of ethnic nationalism a claim to the same right of self-determination as that asserted, say, by the Irish or the Serbs
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In her groundbreaking book Off the Derech: Why Observant Jews Stop Practicing Judaism; How to Respond to the Challenge, Faranak Margolese observed that one of the primary reasons young people leave religious observance is that many of their serious questions about faith and belief remain unanswered. And for many, its not just that their teachers left them unanswered; they were mocked and shamed for asking them. For many students, asking challenging questions related to Talmud study is rewarded with praise.
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