(JTA) — Rabbi Stephen Slater’s rabbinate breaks the mold in all sorts of ways. Though he graduated from the unaffiliated Hebrew College Rabbinical School, he identifies with the Conservative movement and is the only one of the suburban Boston school’s graduates to join the movement’s rabbinic group. Though Slater came to the rabbinate as the […]
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Rihanna posted a message of solidarity for both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict. It drew plenty of praise – and anger. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — Years ago, Jodi Bromberg met a woman at a Jewish event who said she had to call 65 rabbis before she found one who would officiate at her wedding to her non-Jewish husband. It was a story Bromberg understood. Bromberg’s wife is Catholic, and earlier in their marriage “it was a struggle,” she […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press People constantly ask singer, composer, and producer Eli Gerstner for the date of his next album release. His answer is always the same: “On Chanukah.” One small detail he makes sure to omit: Chanukah of which year. Gerstner, who 15 years ago revolutionized Jewish music by introducing multi-layered lushness, a pop […]
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Photo Credit: public {Originally posted to The Lid website} “No person shall throw or shoot any object, arrow, stone, snowball or other missile or projectile, by hand or by any other means, at any other person or at, in or into any building, street, sidewalk, alley, highway, park, playground or other public place within the […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Kishka – Stuffed Derma‘Intestines Are Not Meat’(Me’ilah 20b) Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Stuffed kishka is an integral part of the Shabbos day meal in many homes. Many, therefore, may be surprised to learn that Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said, […]
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Photo Credit: Twitter A photo of a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Australia being bullied to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate. {Originally posted to the JNS website} As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from […]
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Photo Credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities AuthorityAssaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority Aerial photograph of the Sharon valleyexcavation site. Widespread excavations at the En Esur (Ein Asawir) archaeological site, located near Wadi Ara, a major artery that stretches from Hadera to Afula in the northern Sharon valley, reveal a planned city from the Bronze Age (end […]
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