admin | October 22, 2021
Hanukkah is a festival marked in Judaism which marks the time when people who practised the faith rose up against their Greek-Syrian persecutors, which happened thousands of years ago. The story behind the eight-day event begins with the son of Antiochus III, the Syrian king, known as Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who didnt want the Jews following their religion. To make them stop practising their faith, he sent his soldiers to Jerusalem, where they killed thousands of people
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admin | October 22, 2021
Growing up, Reena Zuckerman, class of 23, loved to read from the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. She did it the first time at her bat mitzvah and continues still today.
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admin | October 22, 2021
The state of the national discourse has become so ugly, hostile and tribal it may be eroding one of the great human traitsthe power to imagine. Its hard to think creatively when youre always fighting or virtue signaling. Self-righteousness, snark and smugnessthree of the more popular tones of the dayare ideally suited to snuff out the innocent tendency to dream and imagine.
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admin | October 22, 2021
As the House of Lords prepares to debate the new Bill to legalise assisted suicide there may be speculation about what the Jewish position might be on this contentious question, or indeed if a fixed position exists at all. Assisted suicide and euthanasia, often referred to as assisted dying, are issues about which people feel strongly on both sides of this debate, informed sometimes by personal experience as well as by strongly-held moral convictions. Sometimes it is difficult to predict where people might stand on the Assisted Dying Bill of Baroness Meacher as religious affiliation is not always a sure guide.
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admin | October 22, 2021
What will Jewish life be post-pandemic? Jews will run back to the synagogue.
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admin | October 18, 2021
Jewish conceptions of God In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.[1] Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the national god of the Israelites, delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the Law of Moses at biblical Mount Sinai as described in the Torah.[2] According to the rationalist stream of Judaism articulated by Maimonides, which later came to dominate much of official traditional Jewish thought, God is understood as the absolute one, indivisible, and incomparable being who is the creator deity and cause of all existence. God is omnipresent and incorporeal
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admin | October 18, 2021
COVID-19 had prevented me from going to my temple to worship for 19 months. For me, like many, the High Holy Days meant a return to my synagogue.
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admin | October 18, 2021
By David Zvi Kalman (JTA) The Orthodox Union wont certify Impossible Pork as kosher, representing a break from the way that decisions about certifying kosher food are normally made. But as someone who studies Judaisms long relationship with technology, I would argue that it is undoubtedly the right move
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admin | October 18, 2021
An epic endeavor commenced the moment Chabad of Argentina received approval from the La Rural exposition center to produce an avant-garde theatrical production, Aventura en el Templo (Adventure in the Temple) at the venue in Buenos Aires. It typically takes four to six months to prepare a theatrical production. Chabad of Argentina had just four weeks to bring their vision to life.
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admin | October 18, 2021
Longtime community leader and Jewish educator Rabbi Barton Lee died Monday, Oct. 11. He was 79
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