BWW Review: COMPULSION OR THE HOUSE BEHIND at Theater J – Broadway World
admin | February 5, 2022
Puppet of Anne Frank in Compulsion or the House Behind by Rinne B. Groff. Photo by Stan Barouh
The Making of the Bible by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schrter – Church Times
admin | February 5, 2022
THIS is a landmark book charting and summarising the directions in which biblical studies have been moving in the past few decades. Its interest is less in traditional matters such as the form, contents, and social and theological contexts of the Bible, although those issues come in, and more in the process by which the Bible came together
What I learned in my first month as an observant Jew on a Division I basketball team – The Times of Israel
admin | February 5, 2022
On Friday, December 31st, I was walking to a local Starbucks with an old high school friend when my phone buzzed from a caller I would never have expected to hear from.
Why Judaism calls on us to put ideals into practice – St. Louis Jewish Light
admin | January 30, 2022
Congregation Bnai Amoona. Photo: Bill Motchan Rabbi Jeffrey AbrahamJanuary 27, 2022 Our parshah this week, Mishpatim, embraces law after law right on the heels of the Ten Commandments
Decorating the Dungeon | Vance Morgan – Patheos
admin | January 30, 2022
I am currently rereading Virginia Woolfs 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway for one of my team-taught courses where it will be the central seminar text in a couple of weeks.
When we combat antisemitism, we will be able to combat any form of hatred in the world – European Jewish Press
admin | January 30, 2022
When we combat antisemitism, we will be able to combat any form of hatred in the world, said Joel Mergui, president of the Jewish Consistoire of Paris and of the European Centre of Judaism, as addressed last week a symposium in Kiev, Ukraine, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. His remarks came as a new study reveals the extent of antisemitism in France, homr of the largest Jewish community in Europe. The number of antisemitic acts in 2021 grew in France in comparison with 2020
30 years after the fall of USSR, Russian-speaking Jews go global – Ynetnews
admin | January 30, 2022
Several years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, when David Rozenson first returned to his hometown of Leningrad, (which he left for the United States as a child), to train teachers for Judaism programs, he was astonished by the passion of his students for everything Jewish, after the Soviet regime sought for decades to erase every trace of Jewish education. "I will never forget the notebooks they filled out in handwriting, their passion for learning Hebrew, for reading poetry. It was not just a flame, it was a roaring fire," he remembers.
Bishop Markovsky: Today we want to pay tribute to all those who died in the Holocaust – brytfmonline.com
admin | January 30, 2022
Today we would like to pay tribute to all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. May their history inspire us to work responsibly for peace, dignity of life, dignity and liberty of every individual and country Bishop Rafal Markovsky, Chairman of the Committee on Dialogue with Judaism at the Polish Bishops Conference, appealed. On the eve of the International Holocaust, which marks the anniversary of the release of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former German Nazi concentration camp, Bishop Rafal Markovsky, chairman of the KEPs Committee on Dialogue with Judaism, issued a special statement.
‘We cannot hope to defeat it if we cannot define it,’ asserts those at conference on anti-Semitism – Jewish Journal
admin | January 30, 2022
(JNS) After a high-profile debate surrounding the role of anti-Semitism in the Jan.
Judaism: Are Jews a Nation or a Religion?
admin | January 18, 2022
Judaism can be thought of as being simultaneously a religion, a nationality and a culture. Throughout the middle ages and into the 20th century, most of the European world agreed that Jews constituted a distinct nation
