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Photo Credit: Pixabay {Originally posted to the authors website} As time goes on, I find that my reading is narrowing to books on Israeli and Jewish matters, including Torah commentary; with fewer novels and less general history and politics. There is only so much territory one can cover! Last January I published a list of new (2018) Jewish/Israeli books that I was reading, from an eclectic group of authors like Einat Wilf, Gil Troy, Yossi Klein Halevi, Yoram Hazony, Aviad Hacohen, Yael Ziegler, Kira Sirote, and rabbis Uriel Eitam, Binyamin Tabory and Eitam Henkin.
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admin | January 27, 2020
.and Spring Festival in China and Vietnam.
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admin | January 27, 2020
By Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls, a few not Jewish at all, gather in synagogues and temples to watch a classmates bar mitzvah. This coming-of-age ritual marks a 13-year-old mans assumption of religious and legal obligations under Jewish law.
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admin | January 24, 2020
HonorsRita Semel Longtime Jewish community leader Rita Semel will be honored on Feb. 4 at the Institute on Agings 37th annual fundraising event, Dinner la Heart, at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco.
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admin | January 24, 2020
As time goes on, I find that my reading is narrowing to books on Israeli and Jewish matters, including Torah commentary; with fewer novels and less general history and politics. There is only so much territory one can cover!Last January I published a list of new (2018) Jewish/Israeli books that I was reading, from an eclectic group of authors like Einat Wilf, Gil Troy, Yossi Klein Halevi, Yoram Hazony, Aviad Hacohen, Yael Ziegler, Kira Sirote and rabbis Uriel Eitam, Binyamin Tabory and Eitam Henkin.Here are my recommended 2019 books.#IsraeliJudaism: Portrait of a Cultural Revolution, by Shmuel Rosner and Camil Fuchs (JPPI). An innovative study that explains the blended Israeli-Jewish identity that is becoming the majority culture in Israel; both traditional and modern, rooted in religion but also anchored in liberal Zionist nationalism.We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel, by Daniel Gordis (Ecco).
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admin | January 24, 2020
Featured photo courtesy Rabbi Lazewnik If you write a letter to Rabbi Baruch Lazewnik, be warned: He can learn personal things about your history, upbringing and personality just from looking at your handwriting.
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admin | January 24, 2020
Conservative AGUDATH BNAI ISRAEL: Meister Road at Pole Ave., Lorain. Mark Jaffee, Ritual Director.
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admin | January 24, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Behold, Bnei Yisrael have not listened to me, so how will Pharaoh listen to me? And I have blocked lips (Shemos 6:12).
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admin | January 23, 2020
In the midst of President Donald Trumps inauguration three years ago, well-groomed white supremacist spokesman and coiner of the term alt-right Richard Spencer was standing on a street corner explaining to a skeptical detractor that he is not a Nazi when an anonymous hero ran up and punched Spencer in the face. Video of the incident went viral after it was shared on Twitter, and a still-ongoing debate between delighted leftists and scandalized centrists was born: Is it OK to punch a Nazi in the face
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admin | January 23, 2020
One of the two young cousins who jumped to their deaths from the top of a Jerusalem building overnight Sunday may have been sexually abused by a relative, Channel 12 reported Tuesday.Hani Solish, 19, from Netanya, and Sarah Klapman, 24, from Jerusalem, jumped from the top of the Mercaz Sapir building in Givat Shaul. The young women, both members of the Chabad movement, were found by Magen David Adom paramedics.They left behind a suicide note explaining why they wanted to die.Channel 12 said that the relative who had abused one of the girls was arrested and convicted for abuse, and sentenced to service.
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