Ruth Yael
I’ve previously written about Limmud NY here and here . I’ve written about Limmud Philly here. And here at Jewschool, we also had a recent post about Limmud Boston , which is just getting started. Limmud started in the UK and is pretty much...
Is anti-Semitism the litmus test? An opinion column in today’s Globe and Mail suggest that, Since anti-Semitism is now symbolic of all racism and persecution, denouncing it can act as a sort of shortcut to prove compassion: I oppose anti-Semitism,...
With all the recent talk about sexy Jews and women’s rights , I’d like to take a moment to celebrate Rhoda . Rhoda Morgenstern began life as the quirky (read: Jewish, New Yorker) second-banana best friend to WASP princess Mary Richards on...
The following is a guest post by Leora Koller-Fox. This week, the birth of NewCAJE was announced. Several months ago my mother, a founder of CAJE, and I started to get young educators involved in the process. I sent out an email to friends and got some...
Fritz Silber-Baker and Caroline Rothstein , my favorite Yids of the award winning slam poetry team “ The Intangible Collective ,” will be performing as part of this Sunday’s 2nd annual Inside the Activists’ studio . (As you may...
From today’s JTA : The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether Israeli organized crime is connected to an attack at a local synagogue. The department initially listed the Oct. 30 shooting at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Synagogue...
A little while back, in addressing recent discussions of minyanim and reacting to Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, BZ posted: Rabbi Kaunfer writes “New self-proclaimed movements sprung up — Reconstructionism, and the Renewal and Chavurah Movements.” The “Chavurah...
Getting straight to the point, these (NSFW) two articles raised some pretty serious questions for me. As a big proponent of personalizing religion (that is, participating in traditions or rituals that have meaning to oneself), it’s challenging...
What is an angel? Winged being in white? Powerful deity? Do Jews even believe in angels? Let’s take a look at Vayishlach and 2 great chassidic commentators to find some answers. The first line of this week’s parasha is: וַיִּשְׁלַח...
