admin | April 11, 2022
Hadas Fruchter never aspired to be a rabbi when she was growing up. She couldnt: The job didnt yet exist for Modern Orthodox women. Eager to combine her knack for making people feel loved and seen with her devotion to Judaism, she figured she would run a Jewish nonprofit and try to marry a rabbi.
admin | April 11, 2022
At age 77 a stage of life when many retire Phil Pizzo is starting over.
admin | April 11, 2022
Jewish people often wish each other on a birthday may you live till 120. One hundred and twenty is indeed a full circle of life
admin | April 11, 2022
This is the fifth part of my multi-part story of how, as a non-believer, I spent years in my teens and twenties looking at all the evidence for and against Christianity as fairly as I could, eventually concluding it wasnt true. The introduction is here, and Ill link all the parts back there as I write them
admin | April 11, 2022
EDISON, N.J. Local weeb Mitchell Cohen has recently begun expressing excitement at the prospect of Judaism becoming a big part of his life thanks wholly to the fact that you read the Torah right to left like a manga series. Ive never considered religion before, said Cohen, but once I saw someone in a movie reading the Torah from right to left, I thought, well damn this would be just like reading What Did You Eat Yesterday?
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The story of American Reform Judaism can be reviewed simply by walking up one side and down the other of the central hallway at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religions main classroom building in Cincinnati.
admin | April 11, 2022
What makes Israel a Jewish state? As someone who moved to this country from the US, I would say that the dominance of Jewish cultural norms makes Israels Jewish character unequivocal. The holidays in Israel are Jewish holidays, Sunday is a workday, the day off is Shabbat, kosher food is readily available in any official setting and in most malls and shopping centers.
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On December 20, 2013, a young woman named Justine Sacco was waiting in Heathrow airport before boarding a flight to Africa. To while away the time, she sent a tweet in questionable taste about the hazards of catching AIDS. There was no immediate response, and she boarded the plane unaware of the storm that was about to break.
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Rabbi Michael Feshbach prepares to join colleagues on a mission to Poland to help Ukrainian war refugees sheltering there. (Submitted photo) Why is this Passover not different from all other Passovers? Because this month, while Jews throughout the world prepare to commemorate their forebearers flight from bondage thousands of years ago, another people are being driven from their homes by a cruelty that reeks of genocidal hatred.
admin | April 11, 2022
Atlantic County is a special place. We live in a community with a high number of LIFE & LEGACY donors, spanning multiple generations. Jewish Federation of Atlantic & Cape May Counties Co-president Lois Fried (LF) and her daughter Kathryn (KF) believe in the Jewish community and the transformational power that the LIFE & LEGACY program offers
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