admin | July 19, 2024
In a unique account, Ben-Zion Zyserman-Gold, a Polish yeshiva bochur turned Conservative rabbi in America, describes his visit to the Frierdiker Rebbes Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen 85 years ago in Otvotzk, Poland.
admin | July 19, 2024
President Javier Milei of Argentina is a Catholic who leads Pope Francis native country. He also regularly studies the Torah, attends Shabbat dinner and has said that perhaps his most important adviser is his rabbi. Over the past several years, Mr.
admin | July 19, 2024
When Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp appeared on an episode of the Judaism Unbound podcast last year to talk about her new online Jewish conversion class, she didnt know that two listeners would soon change the trajectory of her life. Those listeners, Ari Kingsman and Joshua Phillips, were cellmates inside the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington State with a shared interest in Judaism
admin | July 19, 2024
In her groundbreaking book Off the Derech: Why Observant Jews Stop Practicing Judaism; How to Respond to the Challenge, Faranak Margolese observed that one of the primary reasons young people leave religious observance is that many of their serious questions about faith and belief remain unanswered. And for many, its not just that their teachers left them unanswered; they were mocked and shamed for asking them. For many students, asking challenging questions related to Talmud study is rewarded with praise.
admin | July 6, 2024
I wonder how many Jews in this country get the feeling that the way they live their authentically Jewish lives is not acceptable to others? Driving to the synagogue on a Shabbat morning, but parking around the corner so the rabbi doesnt see your car, is one example I often hear. To examine the concept of authentic Judaism, we must go back to one of the great sages
admin | July 6, 2024
Jewish comedian Natan Badalov doesnt like matzah ball soup no joke. The Uzbek-American comic, who also detests gefilte fish, quipped that he took an Ashkenazi friend out for Bukharian cuisine.
admin | July 6, 2024
Not unlike prior forms of Jewish dark tourism, the trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support Israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim. For example, at the end of the Kfar Azza tour, Shpak, the kibbutz member, explained that the community had once been invested in peace and co-existence efforts, but everything was broken and trampled in our childrens blood. Shpak told our group that in the past, he had found it painful to witness the suffering of the other side
admin | July 6, 2024
On Monday, the curtains fell on the tenures of Israels chief rabbis, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. For the first time since 1921, Israel is without chief rabbis. But if this slipped under your radar, youre not alone
admin | June 27, 2024
As the tragic events of Oct 7th unfolded, Corey Silberglied from Wilmington Delaware felt a profound sense of helplessness. Determined to contribute in some way, he dedicated himself to the daily mitzvah of wrapping Tefillin. Coreys inspiration stemmed from his high school years as a leader in CTeen, (Chabads Teen Network) the largest Jewish teen network in the world, spanning 62 countries
admin | June 27, 2024
Following the dramatic Supreme Court ruling that ordered haredim to enlist in the IDF, Lithuanian charedi leader Rabbi Dov Landau, who is soliciting funds for the yeshivos in the US, slammed the Supreme Courts justices, accusing them of cruelty towards Torah learners, according to a Kikar Hashabbat report Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The evildoers there and the government have taken the budgets that the yeshivas and kollels (yeshivas for married students ed.) had, and the yeshivas are in a situation where they do not have the ability to continue, he said during the fundraising trip to the US. There are already kollels which have closed
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