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Hazak Hazak V’nithazek: Celebrating Strength Through Inclusion at JTS
It has been almost a year since the Jewish Theological Seminary announced it will accept students that identify as gay, ...
Legal Troubles
-Young Israel of Beverly Hills is accused of “fraud and breach of contract…a petty and ugly quarrel in a deal ...
The 7th of Adar
Today is the 7th of Adar II. This may not mean much to most people, but here is an interesting ...
Perspectives on Jerusalem
-Jason Eskenazi came to Jerusalem with 26 point & shoot cameras and over 250 rolls of film, and a plan ...
Who’s that woman in the pulpit?
Our homepage article this week talks about the changing demographics in the rabbinate. It specifically sites a growing number of ...
Remembering Saul Lieberman
Kudos to FailedMessiah for noting the upcoming lecture to commemorate Professor Saul Lieberman’s 25th yahrzeit. A couple of weeks ago ...
Oy, Spitzer
What’s the Jewish angle on the Eliot Spitzer debacle? Gawker helps us out under the title “Shanda fur die Goyim”: ...
The Holocaust in the Arts & Education
-Tony Judt argues, “We have attached the memory of the Holocaust so firmly to the defense of a single country—Israel—that ...
Joseph Herman Hertz
Author, Zionist and chief rabbi of the British Empire for more than three decades.
Heresy in Judaism
Various movements within the religion have been viewed heretical by those who disagreed with them.
Third Intifada?
This article from The Christian Science Monitor, asks whether a Third Intifada is brewing? Which caused me to ask, when ...