admin | October 11, 2021
God: An AnatomyFRANCESCA STAVRAKOPOULOU(PICADOR, 608 PP, 25)Tablet bookshop price 22.50 tel 020 7799 4064 This scintillating study sets out to recover the body of the God of Israel, which Francesca Stavrakopoulou argues has been lost in religious transit. Modern Judaism, Christianity and Islam, according to Stavrakopoulou, think of God as bodiless: formless, imageless, invisible
admin | October 11, 2021
Liza Behrendt: I looked at [Jewish events at Occupy] as another opportunity to build Occupy, rather than feeling a deep sense of Jewish identity in those spaces. The framing of the movement really flattened and erased identity; I was not particularly aware of any of my identities in the space, as a white person, or a Jewish person, or a queer person
admin | October 4, 2021
By Abby Seitz TEL AVIV (JTA) From the outside, HaOgen Cafe looks a lot like the many other espresso spots that line the streets of Tel Aviv.
admin | October 4, 2021
(This article is written by guest writer Aron Gamman.) Exploring Judaism through the lens of Spiritual Naturalism brings forth many possibilities. On the one side it challenges Jewish traditions by denying a supernatural agency.
admin | October 2, 2021
Its the eve of Rosh Hashana in a building erected in the 19th century by the Templers, a Lutheran sect from Germany, in what is now central Tel Aviv. A passerby peeking in through a window of the preserved structure will discover that its completely packed.
admin | October 2, 2021
How many of us think about why we are as we are, but this is precisely what I found myself doing during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
admin | October 2, 2021
Photo by Getty Images Police entry a Jewish cemetery over a wall near the scene of a shooting that left two people dead on October 9, 2019 in Halle, Germany. Pew Research Center released a report Thursday tracking religious discrimination across the world in 2019. Jews experience a disproportionate rate of discrimination in countries around the globe, with 89 governments engaging in some kind of harassment against Jews or restrictions on the practice of Judaism, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
admin | October 2, 2021
THE QUESTION: When Does Life Begin? THE RELIGION GUYS ANSWER: Those four words are regularly posed in the current abortion debate, so lets scan the lines in pregnancy that have been drawn.
admin | October 2, 2021
Yom Rishon story was wrong I was quite surprised to read your Sept. 17 article on Yom Rishon School in Los Altos.
admin | September 28, 2021
After almost 20 years of being in the classroom I still love teaching. The reason I love teaching is that I have the privilege of teaching Judaism in Jerusalem to college freshmen spending their gap year in yeshivot and seminaries.Judaism for me is the greatest idea in the history of the world and the opportunity to share that idea with my students whom I see as my extended family, is a powerful and electric experience for me
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