admin | November 4, 2021
At the beginning of this week, Meir Shitrit was informed by a rabbi that after waiting 36 years for his missing brother Nissim to come home, he can finally sit shiva and say kaddish for him. Read that sentence again. It sounds full of compassion
admin | October 30, 2021
Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Larry David, Cheryl Hines and J.B. Smoove attend the Premiere Of HBOs Curb Your Enthusiasm at Paramount Pictures Studios on October 19, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Larry Davids popular comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, returned to HBO on Sunday night for its 11th season.
admin | October 30, 2021
KINGSTON, R.I. Oct. 28, 2021 Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Shadi Abu Awwad, leaders of Roots/Shorashim, a grassroots movement of understanding, nonviolence, and transformation among Israelis and Palestinians, will speak about their personal interconnected stories and the groundbreaking work of Roots on Monday, Nov.
admin | October 30, 2021
Rabbi Elliott Tepperman of Bnai Keshet, a Reconstructionist congregation in Montclair, first discovered the writings of Rabbi Arthur Waskow, the Jewish Renewal author and environmental activist, in the early 1990s, when he was a college student at the University of California Santa Cruz.
admin | September 28, 2021
School officials recently found anti-Semitic graffiti on bathroom walls at two Cobb County high schools. Swastikas and the words Hail Hitler and Heil Hitler were written on walls at Pope and Lassiter high schools
admin | September 28, 2021
Rabbi Daniel Swartz will take part in discussions on climate change with Pope Francis. SCRANTON, Pa
admin | September 28, 2021
Anna Kislanski was well into her twenties before she laid eyes on a Reform rabbi. And it was quite a shock when she did. Here was this guy who kept his kippa in his pocket and walked around in shorts and sandals, she recounts
admin | September 28, 2021
Three years ago, Iceland's small Jewish community was fighting legislation that would ban the circumcision of children. It was an uphill battle because Judaism was not on the island nation's list of officially recognized religions and Jews still paid religious taxes to the state Lutheran church. Today, Judaism is thriving in the land of fire and ice, and the community celebrated Sukkot with its first convert and an enterprising rabbi who has led it through three years of dramatic change.
admin | September 28, 2021
ENTERPRISE Why is this wheat different from all other wheat? Because it can be made into matzah, the thin, crisp unleavened bread, traditionally eaten by Jewish people during the Passover seder when a child will ask the first of four traditional questions from the Haggadah, Why is this night different than all other nights
admin | September 28, 2021
Five years ago, I started rewriting the Torah by reversing the genders of all characters. All of the men became women and all of the women became men
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