Reform Jews open Israel’s first state-funded non-Orthodox synagogue
This Haaretz article just found it’s way in to my feed reader.
Reform Jews open Israel’s first state-funded non-Orthodox synagogue
Israel’s Reform Jews dedicated the first non-Orthodox synagogue to receive state funding on Monday, after a long court battle that accented the rift among streams of Judaism in Israel.
The Reform Yozma congregation fought for the better [...]
Jew vs. Jew and the Ethics of Speech
Hi all,
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ethics of speech from a Torah perspective, and particularly, how they relate to disagreements among adherents to different streams of Judaism. From time to time these conversations happen on this blog, and they certainly happen elsewhere on the Jewish internet. Personally, this is an [...]
An Orthodox Rabbi Calls It As He See’s It & He See’s It The Way I do!
An interesting story titled “Imagine Jews worshipping together,”found its way into my feed reader this evening. Unfortunately, the author a Baltimore Rabbi turned business man doesn’t really offer any solutions to our denominational troubles but none the less, I like his take. More importantly, I like how he shows that an Orthodox Jew can be [...]
A Banned Book That Brings a Vanished World to Life
Cross-posted on True Ancestor
More often than not, banning books only tends to bring them more readership and their authors more attention and acclaim. And you can only hope that’s the case with Making of a Godol, a book by the son of a world-renowned rabbi and Torah scholar — a rich and unusually historically [...]
Return to the Jewish Mission
Saul Singer, an opinion columnist who appears in the Friday Jerusalem Post, wrote on 7 March about the Jewish mission. The article was entitled, “From survival to purpose.” Here are some of the pieces of his article that I found particularly interesting:
To modern Jews, the idea of a Jewish mission is either antiquated, [...]
