admin | September 19, 2020
There was a group of Jewish students who were traveling through Malawi in southern Africa. This was back in the 90s so no smartphones, no Google maps, no GPS. Instead, they were relying on a good old-fashioned map
admin | September 19, 2020
Kosher offerings on supermarket shelves in America and Israel might have looked differently this High Holiday season had Rabbi Mendy Chitrik not undertaken a 3000 mile trip around Anatolia, Turkeys Asian portion, this summer.
admin | September 19, 2020
As nearly every aspect of the world around us was changing in this year of global pandemic, Chabad.org/News worked to provide unique perspectives on the unfolding tragedy and unfathomable loss of life, while at the same time reporting on the outpourings of kindness and humanity from every part of the globe. With the Jewish year 5780 coming to a close, here is a look at some of the stories that defined it, as featured on Chabad.org/News
admin | September 19, 2020
The Torah gives just one unique commandment for Rosh HaShanah, to hear the sound of the Shofar, producing that raw, emotionally complex, array of sounds that evoke: How do we respond to these cries? In the liturgy, our response to the shofar all three times in the Musaf (Additional) service is the words, Hayom Harat Olam. This strange phrase is usually translated, Today the world came into being or Today is the conception of the world, or the like.
admin | September 19, 2020
Welcoming questions is normative within the Jewish tradition. We thrive in an environment that supports inquiry and interpretation. However, welcoming people of all shapes, sizes, orientations, may meet with some reservations
admin | September 15, 2020
The Rabbis of the Talmud have instructed that a fence be built around the Torah, meaning that we should set for ourselves limits well within the Torahs bare minimums so that people do not inadvertently transgress them. From this has come the concept of Marat Ayin (seen to the eye, whereby certain activities, though technically not in violation of the Torahs commandments, are discouraged because an uninformed observer might conclude mistakenly that such activities are acceptable, or that the person who engages in such activities is transgressing the rules. Marat Ayin is often invoked in the context of a religiously-observant Jew entering a non-kosher restaurant to use the restrooms or some purpose other than to eat treif food
admin | September 15, 2020
Photo Credit: Aviram Shani / Nature and Parks Authority The hatzav, or drimia, is a deciduous plant, growing from bulbs. Each bulb has one to several leaves that are often dry by the time the flowers open
admin | September 15, 2020
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admin | September 11, 2020
Jordan Rosenblums first whiff of the Talmud in college was intoxicating. Now 41 and a professor of Jewish studies and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rosenblum is the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature a sort of backdoor introduction to the basics of Talmud and the classical rabbinic mindset
admin | September 11, 2020
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy and scholars tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series
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