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Putting Sinaitic Revelation to work for mankind – The Jewish Star

| June 2, 2022

By David Etengoff One of the most famous sources in all Rabbinic literature that discusses the relationship between G-d, man, Torah, and truth is found in Talmud Bavli, Baba Metziah 59b: On that day Rabbi Eliezer brought forward every imaginable argument, but they did not accept them. Said he to them: If the halacha agrees with me, let this carob-tree prove it! Thereupon the carob-tree was torn a hundred cubits out of its place. No proof can be brought from a carob-tree, they retorted

Letter: History shows us where theocracies lead | Opinion | yakimaherald.com – Yakima Herald-Republic

| June 2, 2022

To the editor Sincere thanks to the YH-R for courageously editorializing about the dangers of theocracies and then publishing a letter about abortion, noting not all people of faith believe the soul begins at conception. Jewish rabbis disagree with Evangelicals and others who make the poetic praise of Psalm 139 (You knit me together in my mothers womb) into a proof-text for legislating when life begins. Many Jewish scholars understand both the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud to teach the fetus is part of the mother until birth

France has 500,000 Jews but only 5 women rabbis. A growing movement is pushing to change that. – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| June 2, 2022

PARIS (JTA) In 2019, at a Jewish conference in Troyes, France, Myriam Ackermann-Sommer did something quietly historic: She read from the Torah in an Orthodox prayer group.

Anti-Black Racism and The Great Replacement | OP / ED | thesuburban.com – The Suburban Newspaper

| June 2, 2022

On Saturday, May 14, an 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo and opened fire. In a matter of minutes, ten innocent people were dead and three more injured. Eleven of the victims were African American, deliberately targeted because of the colour of their skin.

Take The NYS Dept. Of Ed Fight To The Streets – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| June 2, 2022

While we strongly support and applaud the current community-wide efforts to encourage thousands of our co-religionists to sign petitions calling for a reversal of the proposed NYS Department of Education regulations prescribing yeshiva curriculums, we also cannot fail to note with sadness that we have yet to take a page from the very successful advocacy book of some of our fellow minorities. Black Americans have scored big time by coming out en masse in public places urging this or that result. To be sure some of their demonstrations have unfortunately been marked by violence.

He Who Must Not Be Named: Responding to Mass Murders – aish.com – Aish

| June 2, 2022

They do not merit fame only infamy. Grief, despair, anguish all of these words express, in the limited way words can convey heartbreaking pain, our response to the horror of this past weeks murderous rampage in the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.

Inscription in Beit Shearim Burial Cave Reveals the Deceased: Yaakov the Convert Who Warned Grave Robbers – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| June 2, 2022

An inscription from about 1,800 years ago that was recently uncovered in a burial cave in Beit Shearim, northern Israel, reveals the name of the deceased and his identity: Yaakov the Convert. The full inscription and the story of its discovery were presented at a joint conference of the University of Haifa and the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday only days ahead of the holiday of Shavuot which celebrates Ruth the Moabite, the classic convert to Judaism. The inscription is from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period, in which Christianity was becoming powerful, and yet we find evidence that there were still gentiles who chose to join the Jewish people, said Prof.

Opinion: Uvalde reminds us to teach our children to make the right choices – El Paso Matters

| June 2, 2022

By Rabbi Levi Greenberg There is no purpose for me to describe what happened in Uvalde last week, nor how I feel about it, because you know that already. We mourn the victims and feel solidarity with their loved ones.

The Many Different Reasons We Read The Book Of Ruth On Shavuot – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| June 2, 2022

In most communities, the Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot during the Shacharit service, usually after Hallel.1 There are several reasons for this custom. According to one explanation, it is read for the many lessons in character refinement that can be learned from the story.

When Stocks And Bonds Won’t Do – Seeking Alpha

| June 2, 2022

unomat/iStock via Getty Images Dr. Wade Pfau, Professor of Retirement Income, Calls Bonds Useless and Equities Risky.


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