admin | March 12, 2022
The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the Book of Vayikra are among the hardest in the Torah to relate to in the present. It has been almost two thousand years since the Temple was destroyed and the sacrificial system came to an end
admin | March 12, 2022
Michael Feinstein started playing the piano by ear when he was 5 years old. After graduating from high school, he moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Los Angeles. When he was 20 years old, the widow of concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant introduced him to Ira Gershwin in July 1977
admin | March 12, 2022
Dr. David Gunn, a father of two, began practicing medicine as an OB/GYN and abortion provider in Brewton, Ala., fulfilling a deeply personal imperative to offer these services to patients in hostile environments.
admin | March 8, 2022
Dear Jew in the City- Judaism says we are supposed to be compassionate, but I feel overwhelmed by all of the world-wide tragedies lately. Is there room to sit out emotionally or do I have to be engaged in grieving with the rest of the world?
admin | March 8, 2022
By Bart D. Ehrman, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Torah Unlike pagan cults, Judaism not only had a large number of ancient traditions, but also a set of written scriptures
admin | March 8, 2022
For Judaism,faith is powerto endure the suffering of waitingthat changes into sweet the sourtaste for baiting and for hating. Solidly it is the basisofhalakhah, glimpsed with a glowwhichhallows it with holophrasisquite simply as great way to go! Rabbi David Grundland, in a Torah in Motion devar torah on 2/24/22 said that he translates halakhah as way to go! I suggest that this definition involves the use ofholophrasis, which is the expression of a whole phrase in a single word, for example howdy for how do you do.
admin | March 8, 2022
Few artists are as evocative of a time and place as Peter Max (nee Tuvia Finkelstein, b. 1937), who is renowned for his use of psychedelic shapes and vibrant color palettes and whose oeuvre is strongly identified as a popular part of the counterculture during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Max is also known for his development of new printing techniques that facilitated four-color reproduction on products and merchandise and an inexpensive printing process that permitted him to produce posters very cheaply in full color
admin | March 8, 2022
The Jewish Press reports: Hundreds of members of the Reform and Conservative movements from Israel and the United States arrived on Friday morning at the Kotel plaza for the Rosh Chodesh Adar B prayer. They were met with enormous resistance from mostly Haredi Jews, including an estimated ten thousand seminary women who followed the instructions of two leaders of the Haredi Lithuanian public, Rabbis Chaim Kanievsky and Gershon Edelstein, to protest the Reform and Conservative presence.
admin | March 8, 2022
Q. I was glad to see you weigh in on the Jewishness of Pauls thought world. In the old pendulum swing from Bultmann at one end of the spectrum and now Nanos, Fredricksen and others at the extreme other end of the spectrum I appreciate your attempt to delineate the ways Paul was both in accord with his Pharisaic faith tradition, and at odds with it in other respects
admin | March 8, 2022
Almost four years ago, just after I turned 13, I celebrated my Bat Mitzvah. Like so many Jewish teens across the country, I read from the Torah and led my congregation in prayer for the first time. Bar Mitzvahs for boys were first recorded in the 1200s, but it's only been for 100 years that girls have had the right to hold Bat Mitzvahs in America thanks to a brave girl named Judith Kaplan.
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