admin | January 2, 2022
The two state-solution in Israel-Palestine is dead, and its erstwhile championsliberal Zionists and foreign diplomats, mainlyare clinging to an obsolete political program, leaving the field wide open to the Israeli right and far right to shape reality as they please. These forces have already been shaping reality for a while, entrenching the military occupation and inextricably integrating the settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank with the economy and society of Israel proper
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admin | January 2, 2022
ROME Every year, certain storylines dominate news coverage of the Vatican. Some are largely positive, though many tend to be negative, such as the clerical abuse scandals that have been a strong contender for biggest Vatican story of the year for each of the last 20 years.
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admin | January 2, 2022
(RNS) In a year in which we expected the news to get better, the stories followed most closely by the Jewish community in 2021 were for the most part sequels to the difficult and dire stories of 2020: COVID-19, surging antisemitism and strife between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. But a new government in Jerusalem and Israels broadening ties to Arab countries brought glimmers of hope for peace.Here are the 10 most important stories on topics of Jewish concern this year: In June, after four indecisive elections in two years, Israeli leaders Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid assembled a broad-based coalition that enabled Bennett to replace Netanyahu as prime minister. In power for 15 years, Netanyahu was the longest-serving PM in the nations history
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admin | January 2, 2022
The Buddhist scholar Dadul Namgyal stressed the importance of letting go of habits of self-obsession and attitudes of self-importance. Moulie Vidas, a scholar of Judaism, placed more emphasis upon Judaisms intellectual and spiritual energy. Karen Teel, a Roman Catholic, emphasized her interest in working toward making our world more just
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admin | January 2, 2022
Chapter One Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO This is a series about Jewish life along the Interstate 5, which begins at the Mexican border and continues all the way to the Canadian border. We will be concerned with just the San Diego County segment of this highway, a 72-mile stretch between Baja California, Mexico, and the Orange County line
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admin | January 2, 2022
It was the mother of Ghislaine Maxwell who first introduced me to the subject of supersessionism. I got to know Betty Maxwell, whose face has become a familiar one on the front pages of this weeks newspapers following the conviction of her daughter in New York for sex offences, when she invited me to help her in organising a conference to analyse the Nazi Holocaust
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admin | December 13, 2021
In South Park: Post-Covid, a special episode of the irreverent TV cartoon that aired onThanksgiving, Eric Cartman has converted to Judaism. He is a tallit-wearing Orthodox rabbi who studied Talmud, married a woman named Yentel, and named his children Moishe, Menorah, and Hakham. Will Cartman take the next step and apply to make aliyah to Israel?
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admin | December 13, 2021
Terry Mattingly| Wichita Falls Times Record News It's hard to do justice to ancient holy days in throw-pillow slogans. Consider the Zazzle item offering a menorah with an un-orthodox number of candles, along with: "Imagine if your cellphone was at 10% but lasted 8 days. Now you understand Hanukkah." Maybe not
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admin | December 13, 2021
In just over a weeks time, the Torah reading on Shabbat (Parashat Va-yechi) ends both the long-running story of Joseph and the entire Book of Genesis (Sefer Breishit). That affords us the opportunity for another look at the narrow-minded view of most scholarsboth non-Jewish and Jewishwho study biblical texts critically to determine how they came to be, and the damage that has done to Judaism.
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admin | December 13, 2021
Marc Gellman| Monroe News-Star This year marks my 50th year as a rabbi. If you are not a paleontologist or an astronomer, 50 years is a long time and my colleagues from my ordination class have all pitched in to share their memories and lessons from a half a century of working in the fields of the Lord.
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