No, I must have just imagined that someone asked me if the reason why I was speaking at a Reform synagogue in Teaneck was because none of the Orthodox synagogues would have me. And if so, was I going to bash Orthodoxy to the non-Orthodox? Wow, yes, my imagination is just working overtime…. Nope, wait,… Continue reading My Imagination or Yours?
Event: Talk with Charles London, author of “Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community”Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010Time: 7pmPlace: Be sure to sign up for more information on upcoming Jewish multicultural events: JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street, New York, NY 10023Admission: $7/$10 Join award winning writer Charles London… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community
Class: JTS@JCC – From Prato to Ghetto: The Jews of Renaissance FlorenceDate: 3 Tuesdays, Feb 23-Mar 9, 2010Time: 7pmPlace: JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street, New York, NY 10023Fee: $50/$60 Dr. Stefanie Siegmund, associate professor in Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and author of The Medici State and the… Continue reading Cool Jewish Class: JTS@JCC – From Prato to Ghetto: The Jews of Renaissance Florence
Trailer: Event: Screening of “The Name My Mother Gave Me”Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010Time: 7:30pmPlace: JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street, New York, NY 10023Admission: $8/$10 Dir. by Eli Tal-El (56 min, Israel, 2008) We follow Ethiopian and Russian Israelis who meet at a leadership training program in Israel. Their year of… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Screening of Film, "The Name My Mother Gave Me"
Event: Taste of Limmud NY in Downtown ManhattanDate: Tuesday, February 23, 2010Time: 7-9pmPlace: Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place, New York CityAdmission: $10 minimum donationRSVP: Click here. Details: “Join us for an exciting evening of learning and shmoozing. Text. Food. Comics. Midrash. Living history. Whatever your interest, it’s… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Taste of Limmud NY in Downtown Manhattan
Parshat Mishpatim from G-dcast.com More Torah cartoons at http://www.g-dcast.com
By Lauren Srok A beautiful thing happened to me yesterday, and I thought I would share it. Yesterday, after my last class of the day ended at NYU, I stood outside chatting with one of my classmates on a corner. Another nursing student, a woman I know by sight but not by name, walked over… Continue reading Jews & Haiti
Lest anyone think that most Jews agree with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet’s insensitive (and downright nasty) opinion piece in The Jewish Chronicle calling for fellow Orthodox rabbis to stop performing conversions, Miriam Shaviv, the foreign editor at the paper, responds with a piece called “An offensive conversion ‘solution.’” In the piece, she defends converts (and Judaism… Continue reading Take that, wise guy!
http://video.aish.com/AishSharePlayer/Player.swf “I am Israel” is a provocative documentary about Israel that will draw ire from critics, inspire some zionists and/or make people like me incredibly weepy.
Question: I am at the beginning of the conversion process in the Conservative branch of Judaism. After I convert, I know I won’t be recognized as a Jew by some Orthodox Jews. So how should I behave if I visit an Orthodox synagogue? As a Jew? As a non-Orthodox Jew? As a gentile?Response from MyJewishLearning.com:… Continue reading Conversion Ettiquette
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