admin | September 23, 2022
This past weekend, I decided to attend a two-night camping trip programmed by the Wesleyan Jewish Community (WJC). However, deciding to sign up for this trip wasnt the easiest or most obvious choice for me. On move-in day of my freshman year, a group of enthusiastic and charismatic upperclassmen representatives from the WJC handed my family and me a pamphlet with all of the upcoming Jewish events on campus.
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admin | September 23, 2022
(September 20, 2022 / JNS) One of the staples of pre-Rosh Hashanah journalism in recent decades is the evergreen story about how rabbis are afraid to speak honestly in their High Holiday sermons about Israels faults. A 2013 surveyshowed that a third of American rabbis were reluctant to speak about the subject, due to concerns about wealthy donors threatening their jobs for the sin of discussing the Jewish states failings
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admin | September 23, 2022
(JTA) Progressive Jewish leaders have launched a new think tank meant to counter what its founders see as an effort by a few billionaires to flood the Jewish world with conservative ideas.
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admin | September 23, 2022
The sermons on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur give synagogue rabbis the opportunity to influence the largest number of listeners and put rabbis under the most exacting scrutiny.
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admin | September 23, 2022
Explore the meaning behind the custom of covering challah at the Shabbat table. Judaism is full of interesting customs and laws
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admin | September 23, 2022
There are rituals handed down from generation to generationldor vdorthat make up unbroken sequences within Jewish life.
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admin | September 23, 2022
With Rosh Hashanah coming many of us are stocking up on apples, figs, dates, and pomegranates and maybe some other deliciously sweet fruit. But do we know why on our tables whether the lead is taken by the apple or pomegranate or both
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admin | September 23, 2022
On the morning of September 13, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys CEO, Jason M. Shames, walked into a shul in Ethiopia. He saw more than 500 maybe even 700 men and woman singing the morning liturgy
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admin | September 23, 2022
It was a very surreal moment when, last Sunday, my phone rang and I was asked whether I would be able to attend the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on behalf of Liberal Judaism.
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admin | September 23, 2022
When we begin The U.S. and the Holocausta six-and-a-half-hour, three-part documentary about Americas actions during one of historys greatest atrocities, the Nazis attempted extermination of the Jewswe find ourselves in 1933 Frankfurt, where a bourgeois German-Jewish family is going out for an afternoon promenade
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