July 13, 2021 – Jewish Review

Elie Kligman becomes second Orthodox baseball player drafted into the MLB in 2 days

July 13, 2021Sara Wood

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Jerusalem is a thriving city. Why on Tisha B’Av do we mourn its destruction?

July 13, 2021Neta-Lee Zellweger

(JTA) — Fasting and praying for 25 hours — many of them sweltering — isn’t anyone’s idea of summer vacation. But that’s not the only reason Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av, which begins Saturday night at sundown) is among the least observed days on the Jewish calendar, despite its […]

In a German city with 30 Jews, a restored Art Deco synagogue will house interfaith efforts

July 13, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — For years after World War II, the once magnificent Goerlitz Synagogue in Germany housed a family with goats and pigs. The roof of the Art Deco building was crumbling; the government came close to demolishing the whole structure. But this week, that very synagogue — the only one in the state of Saxony […]

Jewish spaces should keep the resources offered during the pandemic — it’s a disability issue

July 13, 2021Neta-Lee Zellweger

This article originally appeared on Kveller. With 46% of Americans fully vaccinated, trials for children under 12 in progress and a population eager to put the last year and a half in the rearview mirror, it’s no surprise that the cultural timeline for “returning to normal” — if “normal“ even exists anymore — has accelerated. […]

Listen: Couples Therapy

July 13, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

The recent Jewish Currents staff roundtable on “intermarriage,” “Jewish continuity,” and the fraught institutional discourse on these topics occasioned a wide variety of responses, including the question: How might the conversation look different if it included non-Jewish partners of Jews? So we decided to find out! In the second episode of our new podcast, On […]

British Jews to get apology 800 years after antisemitic laws that led to their expulsion

July 13, 2021Jesse Orine

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Survey: A quarter of US Jews agree that Israel ‘is an apartheid state’

July 13, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — A survey of U.S. Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide and apartheid. Among respondents to the survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by prominent Jewish Democrats, 34% agreed that […]