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Members of cult dubbed ‘Jewish Taliban’ reported in Bosnia – Haaretz

| February 5, 2022

Several dozen members of the Jewish ultra-orthodox Lev Tahor sect, accused of sex-related crimes across several countries, are reported to have migrated to Bosnia. According to local news site Klix.ba, immigration authorities have confirmed that 37 members of the cult from the United States, Canada and Guatemala are currently living near Sarajevo. They have taken up residence in a property owned by a local Bosnian-Serb lawmaker outside the capital.

Breaking Bread: Documentary says a food festival can foster Jewish-Arab peace – The Times of Israel

| February 5, 2022

JTA Hummus is the glue that holds society together in Breaking Bread, a documentary being released in the US on Friday about Israeli and Arab chefs that strives to be as delicious as its dishes. Unfortunately, the film is missing a few key ingredients.

Forgiveness is central to Jewish tradition but we must never forget Professor Joe Goldblatt – The Scotsman

| February 5, 2022

Annually on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for our sins, we ask the Almighty and one another to forgive us for or sins committed during the previous year. Perhaps this is why I was stunned when a senior Arab tourism minister in the Middle East once asked me at the end of a luxurious dinner held high atop a palatial hotel with a revolving restaurant: Why can you simply not forget about our mistakes in the past

The ‘Jewish seat’ on the court | News, Sports, Jobs – Williamsport Sun-Gazette

| February 5, 2022

One of the first legal articles that I had published was entitled, Will a Jewish American Fill the Next Vacancy on the United States Supreme Court? The history of the articles publication is somewhat curious.

With a ‘They Mitzvah,’ ‘And Just Like That’ Brings Us Surprising Jewish Representation Kveller – Kveller.com

| February 5, 2022

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the season one finale of And Just Like That As I read this Vulture piece about the winners and losers of And Just Like That season one, I couldnt help but wonder, as a professional Jew of sorts: Was Judaism a winner? OK, I know its a silly, irrelevant question: Is the new Sex and the City reboot good for the Jews? Like, who cares about that when Mirandas entire character took such a nosedive and when no one in this show seems to know what a podcast actually is?! But historically, representation of Jewish spaces and religious Jews on SATC has been iffy: stereotypical at best with cranky, unwelcoming kvetchy rabbis and meddling Jewish mothers and borderline antisemitic at worse (wish I could wash that affair Charlotte had with a Hasidic Jew in season one from my brain).

Jewish Identity researched: We are all different (but not that different) – Jewish News

| February 5, 2022

In my long career as a researcher of contemporary Jewry, I have seen amazing changes throughout the Jewish world. A few of them I would term without hesitation as miracles, some as expectable rational developments, and, occasionally, also some as serious judgment errors.

Belief and the City – Jewcy.com

| February 5, 2022

In the final episode of what is hopefully only the first season of And Just Like That, the series stepped into strange and foreign territory: the realm of belief. Sex and the City has touched on religion before. Charlotte had sex with a Chasidic folk artist and later converted to Judaism under the auspices of Rabbi Minsch

BWW Review: COMPULSION OR THE HOUSE BEHIND at Theater J – Broadway World

| February 5, 2022

Puppet of Anne Frank in Compulsion or the House Behind by Rinne B. Groff. Photo by Stan Barouh

The Making of the Bible by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schrter – Church Times

| February 5, 2022

THIS is a landmark book charting and summarising the directions in which biblical studies have been moving in the past few decades. Its interest is less in traditional matters such as the form, contents, and social and theological contexts of the Bible, although those issues come in, and more in the process by which the Bible came together

What I learned in my first month as an observant Jew on a Division I basketball team – The Times of Israel

| February 5, 2022

On Friday, December 31st, I was walking to a local Starbucks with an old high school friend when my phone buzzed from a caller I would never have expected to hear from.


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