Avi is a Jew by choice who converted to Judaism in the spring of 2006 after two years of study and participation in Ottawa’s Jewish community. Although he began his Jewish journey as part of a Reform congregation, he now calls the Conservative movement home. Read More Due to a growing number of commitments here in Los Angeles I’ve decided to put the blog section of JewsByChoice.org on indefinite hiatus. Essentially this means that for the time being there will be no new updates made however all our content will remain up so if you’re new to the blog please feel free [...]
As a Jew and especially at JBC I’m always struck by the high level of fragmentation within the Jewish community and the isolation which this creates. All too often I and many others seem to over identify with our denomination of choice. In fact so much so that many of us never end up [...]
Last week Shim sent me an email informing me that she felt it was time to step down from her duties here at JBC.org. I would like to thank Shim for all the time and effort she put into things here at JBC.org .
All though I am sad to see her go I am [...]
I hope that everyone has now had the chance to catch their breaths a bit because this October sure as heck has been one Jewishly packed month. Wouldn’t you all agree?
Anyhow, I wanted to take a moment to introduce our newest JBC contributor Marinell James. I think she’s going to be a great addition to [...]
I’m not sure if anyone remembers but a while ago I did a post covering the Sam Harris (one of the more prominent of the new atheists) versus Rabbi David Wolpe debate titled “Does God Exist” which took place at last year’s Los Angeles Jewish Book Festival. Well it would seem that debate (among other [...]