admin | October 22, 2021
The state of the national discourse has become so ugly, hostile and tribal it may be eroding one of the great human traitsthe power to imagine. Its hard to think creatively when youre always fighting or virtue signaling. Self-righteousness, snark and smugnessthree of the more popular tones of the dayare ideally suited to snuff out the innocent tendency to dream and imagine.
admin | October 22, 2021
As the House of Lords prepares to debate the new Bill to legalise assisted suicide there may be speculation about what the Jewish position might be on this contentious question, or indeed if a fixed position exists at all. Assisted suicide and euthanasia, often referred to as assisted dying, are issues about which people feel strongly on both sides of this debate, informed sometimes by personal experience as well as by strongly-held moral convictions. Sometimes it is difficult to predict where people might stand on the Assisted Dying Bill of Baroness Meacher as religious affiliation is not always a sure guide.
admin | October 22, 2021
What will Jewish life be post-pandemic? Jews will run back to the synagogue.
admin | October 18, 2021
Jewish conceptions of God In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.[1] Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the national god of the Israelites, delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the Law of Moses at biblical Mount Sinai as described in the Torah.[2] According to the rationalist stream of Judaism articulated by Maimonides, which later came to dominate much of official traditional Jewish thought, God is understood as the absolute one, indivisible, and incomparable being who is the creator deity and cause of all existence. God is omnipresent and incorporeal
admin | October 18, 2021
COVID-19 had prevented me from going to my temple to worship for 19 months. For me, like many, the High Holy Days meant a return to my synagogue.
admin | October 18, 2021
By David Zvi Kalman (JTA) The Orthodox Union wont certify Impossible Pork as kosher, representing a break from the way that decisions about certifying kosher food are normally made. But as someone who studies Judaisms long relationship with technology, I would argue that it is undoubtedly the right move
admin | October 18, 2021
An epic endeavor commenced the moment Chabad of Argentina received approval from the La Rural exposition center to produce an avant-garde theatrical production, Aventura en el Templo (Adventure in the Temple) at the venue in Buenos Aires. It typically takes four to six months to prepare a theatrical production. Chabad of Argentina had just four weeks to bring their vision to life.
admin | October 18, 2021
Longtime community leader and Jewish educator Rabbi Barton Lee died Monday, Oct. 11. He was 79
admin | October 18, 2021
When Emma Mayerson was a teen growing up in Berkeley, she wasnt quite sure how she fit in Jewishly. I wasnt necessarily the Jew that went to camp, or was super involved in synagogue, said Mayerson, 33, who is the founding executive director of Alliance for Girls (AFG), an Oakland-based support system for hundreds of local organizations supporting girls and gender-expansive youth
admin | October 18, 2021
Two hundred thirty-five people from the Bnei Menashe community, based in India's remote northeastern border states of Manipur and Mizoram, have immigrated to Israel. The Bnei Menashe, or sons of Manasseh, are supposedly descended from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Biblical Israel sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire starting in 733 BC. After the exile, the ancestors of the Bnei Menashe community lived in Central Asia and the Far East for centuries before settling along India's border of Burma and Bangladesh
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