admin | February 4, 2020
Wearing a headband can signal many things, including marriage, modesty, athletics, or fashion. But recently, among a small but growing group of traditional but egalitarian Jewish women, headbands have become a unique way of expressing both their gender and their Judaism. As more and more women take on the practice, a community has sprung up among what one wearer, Deborah Sacks Mintz, calls the #HeadbandNation.
admin | February 4, 2020
The Good Place, which ended a four-season run on NBC on Jan. 30, was a magically weird cocktail of sharp, funny writing (including outstanding food puns), messy and indelibly endearing characters, and a crash course in philosophy and ethics. And while the show avoided most direct connections to organized religion, the series did provide enough Jewish food for thought to fill 26.1 Jeremy Bearimys (the shows measurement of how time in the afterlife flows relative to time on Earth).
admin | February 4, 2020
Your mother told you so many times. Your highschool principal didnt seem so convinced. Certainly not your employer
admin | February 4, 2020
In honor of of 10 Shevat 5780, which marks 70 years since the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, assumed leadership, we present this article on the significance of the number 70. Theres something special about the number 70.
admin | February 4, 2020
Preface On the Essence of Chasidus, a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, is a definitive, systematic exploration of the nature and idea of Chasidic philosophy. The discourse, originally delivered by the Rebbe on the 19th of Kislev 5726 (1965) and subsequently printed as Inyana Shel Toras HaChasidus in 5730 (1970), delves deeply into the essential nature of Chasidic thought, describing the unique role Chasidus plays within Torah and its fundamental connection with the soul
admin | February 4, 2020
In January, Journalists Resource attended a four-day fellowship on cardiovascular health, Covering the Heart Beat, organized by the National Press Foundation.
admin | February 4, 2020
Looking at the ocean, all we see is water. The ocean is full of life
admin | February 3, 2020
Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic teachings, debates and interpretations of Judaism. Here women read the last pages of the cycle at their first women's mass Talmud celebration in Jerusalem in January. Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for NPR hide caption Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic teachings, debates and interpretations of Judaism.
admin | January 28, 2020
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, John Keats wrote.
admin | January 28, 2020
Photo Credit: Pixabay {Originally posted to the authors website} As time goes on, I find that my reading is narrowing to books on Israeli and Jewish matters, including Torah commentary; with fewer novels and less general history and politics. There is only so much territory one can cover! Last January I published a list of new (2018) Jewish/Israeli books that I was reading, from an eclectic group of authors like Einat Wilf, Gil Troy, Yossi Klein Halevi, Yoram Hazony, Aviad Hacohen, Yael Ziegler, Kira Sirote, and rabbis Uriel Eitam, Binyamin Tabory and Eitam Henkin.
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