richards | March 3, 2017
The election of Donald Trump and the rise of the #JewishResistance movement has led to an amazing outpouring of Torah. My Facebook news feed, in addition to brimming with bad news and outrage, is full of rabbis, rabbinical students, and laypeople sharing texts that speak to the political moment and its attendant moral obligations. These texts are beautiful, powerful, and compelling.
richards | March 3, 2017
When the history of Jewish texts comes to be written, Feb. 7, 2017, will likely be regarded as an important turning point.
richards | March 3, 2017
Your Talmudic advice column Dear Rabbi Zahavy, Im getting a little dizzy trying to figure out when to schedule my bat mitzvah. My synagogue recommends that both boys and girls celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs at age 13. Id like to celebrate it when I am 12.
richards | March 3, 2017
The projectile that slammed into an Indiana synagogue last weekend didnt do much physical damage. A photo of the hole in the glass window of a synagogue classroom shows no more than a pockmark in the glass. The intent, however, was to terrify, according to the synagogues rabbi.
richards | March 3, 2017
Synagogue spreads message of hope in response to hate Updated: 11:05 PM EST Mar 2, 2017 The congregation of Ohev Shalom was joined by people of many synagogues across Central Florida, as well as people who practice other faiths, to answer words of hate with songs of love and joy.
richards | March 3, 2017
Danya Shults Photo by Bridget Badore Julianne was raised by Catholic and Presbyterian parents, while Jason grew up culturally Jewish. At first, it was simple to mark their different backgrounds
richards | March 3, 2017
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richards | March 3, 2017
by Ellie Cohanim Special to NJJN March 2, 2017 If the Jewish community is to unite during these troubled times, bridge-building is necessary between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities around policy issues and the election of Donald Trump. What I am finding as someone with a foot in each of these communities is that while a significant majority of my liberal Ashkenazi friends are horrified by the election results, and feel part of the resistance movement, many of my Sephardi friends and family are equally passionate in celebration of Trumps win and the implementation of his campaign promises.
richards | March 3, 2017
Ratatouille, as you most likely know, is a Pixar film about a French rat who longs to cook fine food. The climax arrives when the most famous, influential, and reputedly cold food critic in Paris samples the rats cooking. Rather than serve an ornate dish of the kind the critic is accustomed to disparaging, the rat elects to serve ratatouille, the humble vegetable stew
richards | March 3, 2017
Amid a surge of bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension about what may come next. Because all of that, and worse, has happened there before. Six decades ago, during the civil rights era's turmoil, 50 sticks of dynamite blasted a ragged hole in Atlanta's largest synagogue
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