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After several years of teaching, I became a pulpit rabbi. Since I had really only seen my father in the pulpit, I decided to ask some notable rabbis how they ran their synagogues. I had a series of lunches and learned of the differences in the way a variety of rabbis thought about the institutions they lead
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By Rabbi Gregory MarxParshat Mishpatim My wife and I have not been able to travel, go out for dinner, see friends, even be with our own children and family members. I suspect that each of us have experienced the same painful isolation.
admin | February 12, 2021
In the Talmud (Bava Batra 7b) theres a disagreement about whether or not a group can compel individuals within it to build certain kinds of structures. The mishna says that a group of people who share a courtyard can collectively compel the individual members to build a gatehouse and a door to the courtyard
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(Courtesy of Hershey Felder) Most of the world knows Sholem Aleichem primarily as the Yiddish writer whose most famous character was Tevye the Dairyman the Russian Jew who eked out the barest of livings, supported a wife and many daughters of marital age, faced the ever-present threat of pogroms, bemoaned his fate in playfully sardonic conversations with God, and who, based on stories published in 1894, was ultimately transformed into the beloved central figure of Fiddler on the Roof, the landmark musical that opened on Broadway in 1964. As for the fiddler in that show, he is little more than a musical icon perched precariously on the rooftop of Tevyes house in Anatevka, a fictional shtetl in the Pale of Settlement. But with the irresistible sound of klezmer music no doubt spinning in his head, in 1888 Aleichem (the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich), wrote Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance, a novel about a bravura fiddler who started out as a prodigy and became the in-demand musician at every wedding and other important event in his region of the world.
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Rabbinic Judaism began its development during the Babylonian Captivity. Away from Jerusalem with no temple to offer sacrifices, the Jewish people began to develop ways around the direct requirements of the Law of Moses so that they could practice their religion.
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Do you remember your Rebbe from 1st grade?
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BNEI BRAK, Israel -- Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 93, can't use a phone. He rarely leaves his house. His family says he has never been successful in making a cup of tea.
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(February 9, 2021 / JNS) Reading a biography about a friend is a mixed experience. On the one hand, the protagonist is familiar
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A decade after the founding of the State of Israel, the countrys first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, approached some 50 of the worlds most renowned Jewish leaders and asked their opinion on one seemingly simple question: Who is a Jew?
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Their relationship started in one place and ended in another. They exchanged profane insults.
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