admin | April 11, 2024
You would not have found a more staunch champion of Israel, certainly within Progressive Jewish circles, than the late Rabbi Dr Sidney Brichto, former executive director of the Liberal movement. Yet shortly before his death in 2009, he wondered whether the term Zionism had outlived its usefulness and suggested it should be pensioned off. Rabbi Brichto argued that the meaning of the word had been so distorted by its opponents that it was counterproductive to continue using it; it had become a gift to Israel-haters who could mask their antisemitism by levelling their invective against the Zionist entity rather than the Jewish state.
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admin | April 11, 2024
Thirteen members of a Hasidic Jewish community were arraigned on Wednesday on charges stemming from a January incident in which a wall inside a famous Brooklyn synagogue was damaged by young men wielding a hammer and crowbar setting off a melee that was captured on video. The 13 people, all young men, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn to charges that ranged from criminal mischief to obstructing governmental administration. Another four defendants were absent because they were in Israel, according to their lawyer, Levi Huebner.
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admin | April 11, 2024
At the beginning of this weeks Torah portion, we learn that a woman who has recently given birth to a boy is prohibited from entering the sanctuary for 40 days and that twice that long if she gives birth to a girl. What did it feel like to be excluded for so many weeks
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admin | April 11, 2024
The Thomas Lamont mansion went up for sale last year for the first time since it was built in 1922. Photo: Sothebys There arent a lot of townhouses in New York City like 107 East 70th Street
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admin | April 11, 2024
The Anti-Defamation Leagues 2023 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents is being released on April 16, and were holding a virtual community briefing the very next day to discuss (whats expected to be) the record-breaking findings, both nationally and locally. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week. We invite you to join guest speaker Oren Segal, vice president of the ADLs Center on Extremism, for a timely and necessary conversation on the state of antisemitism across the country and how the number of incidents has been affected since the terror attacks in Israel on Oct
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admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) The rabbis of the Talmud are famous for their disagreements. But they presented a united front on eclipses, calling the celestial event a bad omen for the whole world.
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admin | April 11, 2024
The organization representing the largest American Jewish denomination is pledging to divest from the fossil fuel industry as a response to the climate crisis. Citing the biblical teaching of till and tend the earth, the Union for Reform Judaism announced on Wednesday that it has committed to ensuring its investment and pension plans, as well as mutual funds, are free of direct ties to oil, gas, and coal companies
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admin | April 11, 2024
In his book Mateh Dan published in 1714, Rabbi David Nieto of Bevis Marks Synagogue incorporated science to explain Jewish belief. He was the first in a line of prominent British rabbinic scholars, which would include Hertz, Jacobs and Sacks, who have demonstrated that there is no rupture between Judaism and the modern world. Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies, formerly Jews College, is now stepping into that line
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admin | March 30, 2024
Ultra-Orthodox Jews who do not study Torah all day should not be drafted into the military, Moshe Tzedaka, Rabbi of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, said this week to an audience of Shas representatives, according to Israeli media.
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admin | March 30, 2024
I was disheartened to read the article in The Times of Israel where critics attacked Rabbi Angela Buchdahls talk at the WZO Jewish Peoplehood conference, and labeled her a traitor, no less.
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