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Jul 27, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! That shall be your fringe, look at it and recall...
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Jul 23, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman A highlight of any trip abroad is the chance to get off the tourist route and into the homes of locals. We've accomplished that in Israel by...
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Jul 20, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! They reached Wadi Eshcol and there they cut down a...
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Jul 19, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Dan MoskowitzTemple Judea, Tarzana CASermon given on July 16, 2010. Also available as a podcast on iTunes. Tomorrow we will read Parshat D'varim the beginning of the last...
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Jul 19, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Daniel R. AllenExecutive Director of ARZA In just a couple of hours Jerusalem will be filled with the readings of Lamentations. You have your choice of our...
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Jul 18, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Daniel R. AllenExecutive Director of ARZA The atmosphere is probably on normal mode for typical Israeli politics. The budget has not been approved, the peace process is...
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Jul 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Daniel R. AllenExecutive Director of ARZA(Originally posted on Ten Minutes of Torah) I will hear Parshat D'varim on Shabbat and Lamentations on Tuesday in Jerusalem. I am here to participate...
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Jul 14, 2010 12:00 AM
by Phyllis SommerOriginally posted on Ima on (and off) the Bima Today, I was greeted with this news about the arrest of Anat Hoffman, one of the leaders of Women...
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Jul 13, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! ...There is no mitzvah greater than the redemption of captives... ...
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Jul 12, 2010 12:00 AM
by Anat Hoffman, Executive Director, Israel Religious Action CenterToday appeared to be an excellent day for the ultra-Orthodox hegemony here in Israel. Before 9 AM, I was arrested for carrying...
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Jul 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman Almost two years ago, I asked the readers of this blog to advise me on what to see on a fifth trip to Israel. As it happened, the trip...
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Jul 6, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) The bare fact...that simple and unsophisticated peoples have unbounded faith in education does not mean that the faith...
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Jun 30, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! ...How goodly, goodly are our tents; We will yet return...
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Jun 22, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! If you will it, it will not remain a fantasy.-Theodore...
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Jun 21, 2010 12:00 AM
ARZA, URJ, and WUPJ senior lay and professional leadership experienced the fullness of our Reform Movement in Tel Aviv on Friday June 18, 2010. What follows is from Rabbi Daniel...
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Jun 18, 2010 12:00 AM
The 36th World Zionist Congress runs from June 15 to June 17, 2010. Rabbi Danny Allen, Executive Director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA), is in Jerusalem...
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Jun 16, 2010 12:00 AM
The 36th World Zionist Congress runs from June 15 to June 17, 2010. Rabbi Danny Allen, Executive Director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA), is in Jerusalem...
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Jun 15, 2010 12:00 AM
The 36th World Zionist Congress runs from June 15 to June 17, 2010. Rabbi Danny Allen, Executive Director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA), is in Jerusalem...
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Jun 15, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its inhabitants. All the people that we...
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Jun 14, 2010 12:00 AM
The 36th World Zionist Congress runs from June 15 to June 17, 2010. Rabbi Danny Allen, Executive Director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA), is in Jerusalem...
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Jun 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now!But the people would not listen to Samuel's warning. "No," they...
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Jun 4, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Paul KipnesOriginally posted on Or Am I? The Baal Shem Tov (founder of Chasidism) urged his followers toward hishtavut, equanimity or levelheadedness. He recognized that powerful emotions of others...
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Jun 1, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) ...By virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United...
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May 25, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) On the day of the first fruits, your Feast of Weeks, when you bring an offering of new...
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May 17, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to...
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May 11, 2010 12:00 AM
by Anat HoffmanExecutive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center(Originally published on RACblog) "I'm a civil war" - this is how Israeli poet Chaim Gouri described himself. After the death...
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May 11, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord your God...
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May 4, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Leaning on the lessons of the past in order to build a future, using the suffering of the...
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Apr 30, 2010 12:00 AM
by Kate BigamPress Secretary, Religious Action CenterOriginally posted on the RACblog Israeli Knesset Member David Rotem, who has proposed a piece of legislation dealing with conversion in Israel, met earlier...
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Apr 27, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) The official shall go on addressing the troops and say, "Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him...
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Apr 23, 2010 12:00 AM
by Phyllis SommerOriginally posted on Ima on (and off) the Bima What I love so much about Israel are the remarkable stories. "Only in Israel" is a phrase that I...
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Apr 21, 2010 12:00 AM
by JanetheWriter(Also posted on JanetheWriter Writes) On this Yom Ha'atzma'ut, inspired by fellow bloggers Ima on (and off) the Bima and Rabbi Paul Kipnes, I've compiled my own list of...
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Apr 20, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Rabbi Abba said in the name of Samuel: for three years the School of Shammai and the School...
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Apr 19, 2010 12:00 AM
by Hanan CidorOriginally published in iTorah. Subscribe to iTorah Being an Israeli, one of the hardest things to deal with, and as far as I know it is unique to...
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Apr 12, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) You shall not hate your kinsfolk in your heart. Reprove your kinsman but incur no guilt because of...
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Apr 7, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) May it by Your will, our God and God of our ancestors, that You lead us and guide...
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Apr 1, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Esther did not reveal her people or her kindred, for Mordecai had told her not to reveal...
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Mar 23, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is present in this place, and I did...
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Mar 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) One should never occupy oneself with the legends and midrashim relating to the messianic age, and should not...
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Mar 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Liz Piper-GoldbergLegislative Assistant, RAC(Originally published on RACblog)"Wondrous God, in ancient days You led our people from bondage to freedom; redeem us now out of our exile from one another,...
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Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Bob OrkandPresident of ARZA We have learned that the Knesset may vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation that would make important changes to the Law of Return,...
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Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the ensign to gather our exiles, and gather us from...
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Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Shelley LindauerExecutive Director, Women of Reform Judaism In this week's Torah portion, Ki Tisa, the Israelites begin to worry that Moses will not return from Mt. Sinai, and in...
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Mar 2, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) You shall destroy all the peoples that the Lord your God delivers to you, showing them no pity....
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Mar 2, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman(Also posted at Larrykaufman's Weblog) When I was first getting involved in synagogue life, my rabbi had a cartoon pasted to the door of his study, showing a...
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Feb 24, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Eric Yoffie(Originally published in Reform Judaism magazine) When the history of Reform Judaism is written a century from now, its authors will ask many questions: Did Reform Jews...
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Feb 23, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Stanley M. DavidsImmediate Past President of ARZA Resa and I returned home to Jerusalem on January 25th. We plunged immediately into what has become a month long period of...
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Feb 23, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)...Even a poor person who is supported by tzedakah is obligated to contribute tzedakah to others. -Rambam (Maimonides), Mishneh...
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Feb 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Who is the mightiest of the mighty? He who conquers his urges... Some say: He who turns his...
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Feb 12, 2010 12:00 AM
by Elaine Starkman He sold peaches from his cartYehiel, an old immigrantfrom Eastern Europe, palerthan I, light eyes and lashesI never knew if he landed herebefore or after the warwhen...
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Feb 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) The Council of Progressive (Reform) Rabbis in Israel views the Western Wall as an area that does not...
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Feb 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Sherry Levy-Reiner I was gratified to read the constructive comments about my previous blog, "Progressive Judaism: the Un-'official' Alternative," January 7, 2010. I hope that the dialogue sparks action. In...
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Feb 2, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Do not uproot what has been planted Do not forget the hope Return me and I shall return...
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Jan 28, 2010 12:00 AM
by Frederick D. Strober President, Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, PA (Originally posted on BlogRS)When I was 25, I wound up in a unique place, doing my best to help....
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Jan 26, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)Moving from the Midwest to the Mideast involved looking at rainy days in a new way. It took me...
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Jan 25, 2010 12:00 AM
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, had an op-ed published last week in the San Francisco Bay Area's J Weekly, titled "At the Wall, which side...
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Jan 22, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Ira Youdovinformer ARZA Executive Director and current chair of ARZA's Rabbinic Cabinet Televised images of Gaza, Israel's security barrier and alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians have undermined the...
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Jan 22, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi David A. LyonCongregation Beth Israel, Houston, TX The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is still coming into focus. The daily news reports the devastation on the ground....
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Jan 19, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) We hold that the State of Israel was not permitted, by law, to allocate State land to the...
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Jan 12, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Ben Bag-Bag says: Turn [the Torah] over and turn it over, for everything is in it. -Mishnah, Avot...
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Jan 10, 2010 12:00 AM
by JanetheWriter(Originally posted on JanetheWriter Writes) A few weeks ago, I wrote on the Union's blog about the ongoing controversy involving women wearing tallitot and praying at the kotel in...
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Jan 7, 2010 12:00 AM
by Sherry Levy-Reiner When my husband and I visited Vienna several times in the 1990s, the gemeinde (official Jewish community) would not publish the schedule of services at the Progressive...
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Jan 5, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the Lord your God will maintain faithfully...
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Jan 3, 2010 12:00 AM
by Alex CicelskyFounder, Kibbutz LotanThe recent President's Conference in Jerusalem opened with a video that showcased innovative research and development in the Negev and highlighted Reform Kibbutz Lotan's ecology center....
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Dec 30, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be...
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Dec 23, 2009 12:00 AM
by JanetheWriter An article in this week's New York Times and this post right here on the Union's blog--also published this week--both reminded me of a Facebook conversation I had...
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Dec 21, 2009 12:00 AM
Anat Hoffman is the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center in Jerusalem. This post originally appeared as a message in IRAC's December 21, 2009 newsletter, The Pluralist. To...
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Dec 18, 2009 12:00 AM
by Olivia Cohen-Cutler and dcc In September of this year, Jay Michaelson wrote an essay for The Forward about why his love for Israel was waning because he was tired...
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Dec 15, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Thus said the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say is ruined, without...
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Dec 8, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) I have indeed removed them far among nations and have scattered them among the countries and I have...
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Dec 1, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Joshua ben Perachiah says: Make yourself a teacher (rabbi) and get yourself a colleague (friend) and judge every...
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Nov 24, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Judges and officers [shotrim, the word used in modern Hebrew for police] shall you set up in the...
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Nov 17, 2009 12:00 AM
Miriam Farber is currently living in Jerusalem and studying in the Year Program at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies. She is an alumna of Eisner Camp and NFTY. To...
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Nov 17, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Take your son," - "Which son?" "Your only son," - "Each is the only son of his mother."...
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Nov 10, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Proclaim: "This is the truth from your Lord," then whoever wills let him believe, and whoever wills let...
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Nov 8, 2009 12:00 AM
Aron Hirt-Manheimer is Editor of Reform Judaism magazine In the aftermath of the Fort Hood mass murders, King Abdullah II's hopeful message to the General Assembly was very reassuring. Talking...
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Nov 6, 2009 12:00 AM
Aron Hirt-Manheimer is the Editor of Reform Judaism magazineShocking! All four resolutions passed without a soul grabbing the con microphone. I heard not even a whisper of opposition from among...
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Nov 4, 2009 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman Twenty-four hours and four meetings after arrival, and the pace is accelerating. So far, we've admitted two congregations to their first membership in the Union, and re-admitted...
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Nov 4, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Denise L. Eger (Originally published on the RACBlog) Rabbi Erger is the founding Rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood's Reform Synagogue. She is the first female president...
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Nov 3, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) If ...[one was walking] with a barrel ahead of one with a beam, and the barrel is broken...
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Nov 2, 2009 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman The first time I spoke on Zionism from a synagogue bimah happened to be on Shabbat Lech Lecha, and I had been taught to relate any talk...
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Oct 28, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Paul Kipnes(Originally posted on Or Ami I?)Let's celebrate Hiddush, new Jewish advocacy organization, aimed at "promoting religious freedom and diversity" in Israel. Its a public education organization comprised...
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Oct 27, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Three times a year - on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on...
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Oct 26, 2009 12:00 AM
Speaking this afternoon to some 1,500 activists at the inaugural J Street National Conference, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, called for "a broad, sensible, and...
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Oct 20, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Blow the shofar on the new moon, on the full moon for our feast day, For it is...
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Oct 13, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) You shall live in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths, in order that...
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Oct 6, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, who was of royal descent and one...
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Sep 29, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) These are the festivals of the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their proper time. -Leviticus...
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Sep 24, 2009 12:00 AM
by Liz Piper-GoldbergEisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center(Originally posted at RACblog)This morning, President Obama made the first address of his presidency to the UN General Assembly. In outlining...
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Sep 22, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) He will take us back in love; He will cover up our iniquities, You will hurl all our...
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Sep 15, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Therefore the lion will strike them from the forest, the wolf will attack them from the plains, the...
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Sep 9, 2009 12:00 AM
by Sophie Vener 2009-2010 NFTY Social Action Vice PresidentI arrived in Jerusalem on Monday, August 31st, to begin my year on Shnat Netzer, the World Union for Progressive Judaism's gap...
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Sep 8, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Since its earliest days, Reform Judaism has asserted that a Judaism frozen in time is an heirloom, not...
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Sep 8, 2009 12:00 AM
by Anat Hoffman(Originally published in IRAC's newsletter, The Pluralist)Last Sunday, seven Israel Religious Action Center staff members and I boarded at the front of Bus No. 40, one of Jerusalem's...
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Sep 1, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Rabbi Abba said in the name of Samuel: for three years the School of Shammai and the School...
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Aug 31, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Rifat Sonsino(Also published on From Istanbul to Boston) It is well known that most Orthodox Jews do not have high regard for Reform Jews. They consider the Reformers...
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Aug 27, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Eric Yoffie(Originally published in The Jewish Week) The State of Israel's most significant long-term problem is not the security situation or the absence of peace. It is not...
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Aug 25, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally posted in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) These you may eat of all that live in water: anything in water,, whether in the seas or...
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Aug 18, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to...
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Aug 11, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Rabbi Johanan said in the name of Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai: If Israel were to keep two Sabbaths...
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Aug 6, 2009 12:00 AM
by Phyllis Sommer(Originally posted on Ima On and Off the Bima) Wednesday is Tu B'Av, a relatively unknown "holiday" in the Jewish calendar. Coming fast on the heels of Tisha...
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Aug 4, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. -Psalms 118:22 Every morning I take my...
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Jul 30, 2009 12:00 AM
by Jill Zimmerman Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center (Originally published on the RACBlog) As Congress is working to reconfigure our country's health care system, many are pointing...
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Jul 28, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs...
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Jul 27, 2009 12:00 AM
by Faith Joy Dantowitz(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) Sh'ma is often translated as "hear.' There is a difference between "hearing" and "paying attention",...
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Jul 21, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) For a while now the complaints regarding the Jewish schools in Israel are unceasing - that the children...
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Jul 20, 2009 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman I was in college during the heyday of David Reisman, whose seminal The Lonely Crowd taught my generation to classify ourselves as other-directed or inner-directed. I can still...
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Jul 14, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally posted in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) When the queen of Sheba observed all of Solomon's wisdom, and the palace he had built, the fare...
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Jul 13, 2009 12:00 AM
by Elyse Frishman(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) In the hills and valleys of the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, there's a particular trail up...
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Jul 13, 2009 12:00 AM
by Jonathan A. Biatch(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) The words of Mas'ei probably resound in the minds of those who have chosen to...
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Jul 10, 2009 12:00 AM
by Sybil Schwartz Anita Saltz Student, JerusalemBeth Emeth Synagogue, Wilmington, Delaware I yearned for a Judaica journey of sustenance - one filled with opportunities for intellectual growth, spiritual awareness, and...
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Jul 7, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take...
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Jun 30, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the...
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Jun 23, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) When she saw that [Joseph] had left [his garment] in her hand and had fled outside, she called...
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Jun 9, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Who is the mightiest of the mighty? ... Some say: he who is able to turn his...
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Jun 8, 2009 12:00 AM
by Kate Bigam(Originally posted on the RACBlog) After President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim community in a speech in Cairo, Egypt, Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the RAC, recorded a video...
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Jun 4, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Eric Yoffie(Originally published in The Jewish Daily Forward and Ten Minutes of Torah) During his recent visit to the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his demand...
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Jun 3, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Rich Kirschen This morning was one of those mornings I dread living in Israel because I had given in to my wife's demand that it was my turn...
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Jun 2, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) ...We, members of the people's council, representatives of the Jewish community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist movement...,...
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May 26, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) ...Priest and prophet alike, they all act falsely, They offer healing offhand for the wounds of My...
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May 19, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Asher did not dispossess the inhabitants of Acco or the inhabitants of Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik,...
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May 19, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Eric Yoffie (Originally published in Reform Judaism magazine) Menachem Begin must be turning over in his grave. The late Prime Minister and long-time leader of Israel's right-wing parties...
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May 13, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) For now the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The blossoms have appeared in...
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May 5, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Our hope is not lost, the hope of two thousand years To be a free people in...
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Apr 28, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) As she kept on praying before the Lord, Eli watched her mouth. Now Hannah was praying in...
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Apr 21, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) And from the day on which you bring the omer offering - the day after the sabbath...
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Apr 14, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) The ocean sounds, O Lord, the ocean sounds its thunder, the ocean sounds its pounding. Above the thunder...
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Apr 13, 2009 12:00 AM
by Jacob V. AftelOhef Sholom Temple of Norfok, VA Well, there it is - mentioned four times in the Torah; Exodus 13:1-10, Exodus 13:11-16, Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Deuteronomy 11:13-21 where...
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Apr 7, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining...
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Mar 31, 2009 12:00 AM
By Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Encamped at Gilgal, in the steppes of Jericho, the Israelites offered the Passover sacrifice on the fourteenth...
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Mar 24, 2009 12:00 AM
By Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) We will dress you in a dress of cement and mortar; We will spread for you carpets...
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Mar 24, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rachel Reynolds (First posted on the RACblog) Rachel Reynolds is a graduate of Sweet Briar college and an intern at the RAC. All views expressed are her own. Though...
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Mar 17, 2009 12:00 AM
By Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Once there was a man who was clearing stones from his field and throwing them into the...
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Mar 12, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Richard Winer (Originally posted on Divrei Derech) Now that I've returned from the C.C.A.R. Conference in Israel, I consider the details that rise to the surface in my...
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Mar 10, 2009 12:00 AM
By Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Yehoshua ben Perachia said, Make for yourself a teacher (master), acquire for yourself a colleague, and judge...
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Mar 4, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Paul Kipnes (Originally posted on Or Am I?) There's another aspect of being in Israel that palpitates my heart. Hebrew. Danny Siegel, poet and tzedakah (charitable giving) champion,...
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Mar 3, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)Therefore, when the Lord your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that...
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Feb 26, 2009 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriter A number of my friends, in commenting about my escapades in the I'm-searching-for-a-good-guy-in-NYC quest, have told me that they're happy to take a back seat and live the...
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Feb 24, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Paul Kipnes (Originally posted on Or Am I?) This country is crawling with Reform Rabbis. They are much harder here to identify then the ultraorthodox ones, mind you,...
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Feb 24, 2009 12:00 AM
By Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them. For the...
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Feb 24, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Paul Kipnes (Originally posted on Or Am I?) I'm in Israel now. This might be a good time to reflect upon the purpose of this trip. My Israel...
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Feb 19, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Eric Yoffie(Originally published in The Forward and Ten Minutes of Torah)The apologists and the excuse-makers in the American Jewish community have begun their work. No need for concern, they...
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Feb 17, 2009 12:00 AM
By Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go at once to Nineveh,...
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Feb 12, 2009 12:00 AM
This past Tuesday, Israelis went to the polls to elect a new prime minister, and Tzipi Livni's moderate Kadima Party won a one-seat victory in the Israeli Parliament over Benjamin...
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Feb 9, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Happy is the man who has not followed the counsel of the wicked, or taken the path...
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Feb 5, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Eric Yoffie (originally published on JTA.org and Ten Minutes of Torah) If one were intent on undermining Israel's claim to Jerusalem, there would be no better way to...
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Feb 5, 2009 12:00 AM
By William Berkson One of the fascinations of the Internet is the opportunity to talk with people having hugely different viewpoints, from all over the world. On the type design...
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Feb 4, 2009 12:00 AM
By Paul Kipnes (First posted on Or Am I?) Israeli Avram Burg recently raised difficult questions as to whether the Holocaust has become ingrained as a dangerous lens through which...
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Feb 3, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein (Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) A scheme is not a vision. -Leonard Cohen, "Isaac" Now that the latest war seems to have...
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Jan 29, 2009 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriterOn any given day, if you'd ask me what I was doing precisely five years earlier, I'd probably look at you as though you had two heads. The same...
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Jan 28, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) Altneuland = Oldnewland: Title of novel published in 1902 by Theodore Herzl, envisioning the Jewish state as a...
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Jan 21, 2009 12:00 AM
The Union has been receiving regular updates from Rabbi Edgar Nof of Or Hadash, a progressive congregation in Haifa, Israel. Here is a recent email: Dear Friends, Shalom! I want...
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Jan 21, 2009 12:00 AM
by Russell Cohen(Originally published on Russell Cohen's blog Cafe Birkenreis)During the latter half of 2008, the WUPJ lent its support to two online petitions (e-petitions) on behalf of member unions....
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Jan 20, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Paul Kipnes (Originally published on Or Am I?)What does this all mean? Here are 5 Must-Read articles that offer perspective on what has happened and is happening: 1....
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Jan 15, 2009 12:00 AM
by Yigal RechtmanBrookyn Heights Synagogue, NYThis year, like many others before it, our family traveled to Israel. This time we had a double duty of being tourists (more on that...
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Jan 14, 2009 12:00 AM
by Jessica BermanOr Hadash Overseas Coordinator On Monday January 12th, a positive step towards peace was made when Or Hadash together with the Catholic Focolare Movement organized an interfaith prayer...
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Jan 13, 2009 12:00 AM
by Rich KirschenDirector of the Anita Saltz International Education CenterJerusalem, IsraelI am not going to offer a strategic analysis as we have far more competent people to do this. But...
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Jan 12, 2009 12:00 AM
by JanetheWriterOn Friday, after I read Daphne Price's wonderful post on this blog about why she and her family are in Israel right now, I was prompted to comment thusly:...
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Jan 9, 2009 12:00 AM
by Louis FrankenthalerIn the interest of full disclosure: I live in Jerusalem, I am married. We have 2 young children, 6 & 9. I am a human rights worker, a PhD student...
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Jan 9, 2009 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriter War's raging in Gaza, Israelis are dead,Children are crying; they need to be fed.Now more than ever, we need Shabbat. Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech haolam, Who hallows...
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Jan 8, 2009 12:00 AM
by Daphne PriceDaphne Price is Rabbi David Saperstein's executive assistant.(First posted at RACblog) I love watching the sun rise (though most of my sunrises coincide with vacation). This morning's sun...
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Jan 8, 2009 12:00 AM
The Union has been receiving regular updates from Rabbi Edgar Nof of Or Hadash, a progressive congregation in Haifa, Israel. Here is today's update: Dear friends, Just two days ago...
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Jan 7, 2009 12:00 AM
By Hanan Cidor, KESHER Shaliach First published in It's an Israel Thing Although I'm currently in Israel, it seems as if there was no escape this week from the leading...
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Jan 7, 2009 12:00 AM
by dcc "After arriving at my office, at the moment I resumed writing this article, I was again forced to leave, this time because the building next to my office...
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Jan 6, 2009 12:00 AM
by Aaron B. Cohen JUF News Executive EditorChicagoans watching the ugly scenes unfolding in the Middle East may wonder what's driving the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Why can't the...
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Jan 5, 2009 12:00 AM
By Paul LiptzPaul Liptz (Pbliptz@netvision.net.il) immigrated to Israel on June 4, 1967. He was on the faculty of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University for...
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Jan 5, 2009 12:00 AM
by Gardening GrandmaI've always resonated to the writings of the late Rabbi Chaim Stern, editor of Gates of Prayer and Gates of Repentance. But it wasn't until I read a...
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Jan 1, 2009 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Eric YoffieFirst published in The Forward Wars sicken me, even wars that I support. I support Israel's offensive in Gaza, but watching it on TV -- the images...
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Dec 30, 2008 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Bob Orkand, President of ARZAAs we approach the new year we are focused, once again, on the violence in Gaza. We pray for a quick end to the...
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Dec 30, 2008 12:00 AM
by Daniel Crane First-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIROriginally written for blogHUC and Daniel's blog Journaling in Jerusalem I've been involved with interfaith dialogue since my first year of college. So when...
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Dec 28, 2008 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Eric Yoffie For the past three weeks, Israel has lived under an increasing barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. More than 80 missiles landed on a...
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Dec 27, 2008 12:00 AM
By David A.M. Wilensky First published on The Reform Shuckle Chanukah is my favorite holiday. I know that involved, intellectual Jews like myself are supposed to declar that Pesach is their...
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Dec 14, 2008 12:00 AM
by Gardening GrandmaI'm at Union's board of trustees meeting, where they've just passed unanimously a resolution urging all Reform Jews to sign the petition to have Rabbi Miri Gold, the...
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Oct 25, 2008 12:00 AM
By Larry KaufmanI've always made it my business not to talk politics with my business associates, especially those who are likely to be on the opposite side of the...
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Oct 24, 2008 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriterIn my current read, In the Land of Invisible Women, Qanta Ahmed, a young Muslim medical doctor from the west, tells of her adventures living and working in the...
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Oct 10, 2008 12:00 AM
By Larry Kaufman My wife Barbara and I are beginning to plan our fifth trip to Israel, and are already discussing what we want to do and see this time....
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Oct 8, 2008 12:00 AM
By Jeff Oakley (First posted on the RACBlog) Jeff Oakley is an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Last week, Republican Vice Presidential candidate...
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Oct 8, 2008 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriterIn an earlier post on this blog, I wrote that I love to read the wedding announcements in the Sunday New York Times. I also read the obituaries--almost daily--and...
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Oct 7, 2008 12:00 AM
By Hanan Cidor, KESHER Shaliach First published in It's an Israel Thing In a very unordinary interview with, who I guess you could say is not a very ordinary man,...
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Oct 2, 2008 12:00 AM
By David A.M. Wilensky (First published on The Reform Shuckle)I've said it before and I'll say it again: The man is a genius. Check out a transcript of Rabbi Andy...
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Sep 21, 2008 12:00 AM
By Larry KaufmanFor my ninth birthday, my Aunt Rebecca and Uncle Morris gave me a book hot off the presses, written by their friend Libbie Braverman, who was the principal...
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Sep 11, 2008 12:00 AM
By Larry KaufmanAs part of a unique new cooperative venture between the Reform movement and the Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Rabbi Stanley and Resa Davids are...
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Sep 9, 2008 12:00 AM
By Carine Warsawski Friday, July 25, 2008, is a day that 320 NFTY in Israel participants will never forget. That Friday was truly unique as NFTY made history in the...
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Aug 14, 2008 12:00 AM
By dccLast week Iri Kassel, executive director of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, sent the North American Reform Movement a thank you note for starting the Movement wide IMPJ...
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Aug 4, 2008 12:00 AM
By Jennifer GubitzAs a child, I was never much of a hugger. I preferred to neither give nor receive much affection from my immediate family, except for from my mom's...
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Jul 25, 2008 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Michael Marmur(First posted on The Jerusalem Post Blog) For much of my adult life I have studied, taught and worked on King David Street in Jerusalem. It is...
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Jul 23, 2008 12:00 AM
The fall of the U.S. dollar in the last few months put the IMPJ, the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, into a financial crisis. RJ.org spoke with Peter Weidhorn, chairman...
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Jul 17, 2008 12:00 AM
By Judy Gangel Until last week (July 10/11, 2008), I had, and still do have, many blessings to recall and for which I was and still am thankful ...but...
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Jul 7, 2008 12:00 AM
By Larry Kaufman From my first visit to Israel, some thirty-three years ago, one of my strongest memories is the guide telling our group at the beginning of the tour, "You...
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Jul 4, 2008 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriterEvery night when I was growing up, after I'd said goodnight to my father, my mother tucked me into bed. When she did so on this date 32 years...
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Jun 30, 2008 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Eric H. YoffieI have just returned from a week in Israel. I met privately with Foreign Minister Tsippi Livni, Leader of the Opposition Benjamin Netanyahu, and a half...
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Jun 30, 2008 12:00 AM
By David A.M. Wilensky As readers of Reform Judaism magazine will recall, the RJ magazine's summer 2008 issue included a series of important questions regarding the Reform Movement and their...
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Jun 25, 2008 12:00 AM
By David A.M. WilenskyAs readers of Reform Judaism magazine will recall, the RJ magazine's summer 2008 issue included a series of important questions regarding the Reform Movement and their answers...
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Jun 20, 2008 12:00 AM
By Dave Abbey Real peace will come to the Middle East when both Israelis and Palestinians accept each other's story as 'legitimate'. People may have strong feelings about the 'other'...
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Jun 19, 2008 12:00 AM
By William BerksonAs I was writing my second post on Israel and the Jewish community worldwide, the outstanding journalist and real 'mensh' Tim Russert dropped dead. And he was younger...
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Jun 14, 2008 12:00 AM
By Rabbi Stacey BlankIn Israel, even in Reform synagogues, most of the kids who have an aliyah to the Torah when they turn 13 are boys. There are very few...
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Jun 10, 2008 12:00 AM
By William BerksonAs I was walking back from the 60th anniversary celebration on the National Mall last Sunday, I was thinking about what I had learned in the past year...
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May 24, 2008 12:00 AM
By Rabbi David Saperstein(First posted on the Newsweek/Washington Post "On Faith" blog) Fundamentalist religious leaders who believe not only that God controls everything that happens but that they are able...
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May 23, 2008 12:00 AM
By dcc I missed the story about Israelis buring copies of the New Testament this week in the town of Ohr Yehuda. When I read this story, it made my...
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May 20, 2008 12:00 AM
Reform Jews attitudes toward the State of Israel run the gamut of feeling. Below are some of the very different points of view found in the Reform Judaism magazine's Guide...
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May 20, 2008 12:00 AM
By Dana Jennings Judaism is not Zionism. It is a good and wonderful thing that the modern Israeli state exists, but worship of that modern Israeli state is not...
