admin | October 18, 2021
When Emma Mayerson was a teen growing up in Berkeley, she wasnt quite sure how she fit in Jewishly. I wasnt necessarily the Jew that went to camp, or was super involved in synagogue, said Mayerson, 33, who is the founding executive director of Alliance for Girls (AFG), an Oakland-based support system for hundreds of local organizations supporting girls and gender-expansive youth
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admin | October 18, 2021
Two hundred thirty-five people from the Bnei Menashe community, based in India's remote northeastern border states of Manipur and Mizoram, have immigrated to Israel. The Bnei Menashe, or sons of Manasseh, are supposedly descended from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Biblical Israel sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire starting in 733 BC. After the exile, the ancestors of the Bnei Menashe community lived in Central Asia and the Far East for centuries before settling along India's border of Burma and Bangladesh
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admin | October 18, 2021
Faith leaders of all backgrounds gathered on Sunday to address the root causes of racism and how society can combat the issue.
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admin | October 18, 2021
When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation of the Talmud into German, the world he had hoped to serve when he started 40 years earlier was in the process of being destroyed. Now, nearly 90 years later, German-speaking Jews are getting another chance to engage with Goldschmidts work. Sefaria, the website that makes Jewish texts available and interactive online, has added Goldschmidts translation to its library.
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admin | October 15, 2021
(JTA) When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation of the Talmud into German, the world he had hoped to serve when he started 40 years earlier was in the process of being destroyed. It was 1935, two years after Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, and Goldschmidt himself had already fled to London
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admin | October 15, 2021
At Mondays stormy debate between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum, Netanyahu mockingly asked Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy to be softer on Coalition MKs if they heckle him than he was with the Likud MKs who shouted at Bennett. Levy threw out a dozen Likud MKs, one after the other, in an effort to restore decorum in the plenum. But even those MKs admitted afterward that Levy was absolutely right, fair, balanced and statesmanlike under difficult circumstances.
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admin | October 11, 2021
(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 11, 2021
Growing up, Reena Zuckerman 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 11, 2021
(JTA) When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student doodling.
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admin | October 11, 2021
This is Jerusalem. Some people even lose their mind when they come here, says Uri, a guide leading us on a lifetime tour inside the old city. This is my first time here, and my mind is being blown away by what I am seeing and hearing, as I, along with fellow journalists make our way through the stone walls of the city.
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