Video: Darby Leigh On Being Deaf & A Rabbi
This video showed up in my feed reader this morning and I thought, that in light of JBC.org’s recent posts on disabilities and egalitarianism, this was something worth sharing.
Mazal Tov to Rabbi Leigh on his recent ordination.
The "List"
A friend just e-mailed this to me, and I wanted to pop it up really quick to share. I have to admit that my knowledge of U.S. rabbis is pretty weak. I concern myself so much with the great dead teachers (Rashi, Maimonides, etc.) that I seem to forget to look in my own backyard [...]
J-Quote: Mordecai Kaplan on "The Implications of Believing in G-D"
Note: This is a repost of something I originally wrote back in May of 2007 for my personal blog. I am planning on shutting it down in the not too distant future and have decided that before I do, I’m going to repost the relevant stuff here to JBC.org.
Hope no one minds.
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A couple of [...]
Learning About The Jewish Scribal Arts
A while back Yair made an interesting (and IMO accurate) comment on how it might be a good idea, if the non-orthodox streams began putting some energy into training their Rabbi’s in the “laws of sofrut.” I agree with him and would even add that training our Rabbi’s in this way, is important to the [...]
FYI: The Reconstructionist Journal Is Available Online
This is just a quick pre-Shabbos post, to share a newly discovered resource with the rest of you. To be honest I’m not sure how I missed this being the religion geek that I am, but somehow I did. It would seem that over a decades worth, of the Reconstructionist Journal (a publication of the [...]
A Faithful Jewish Agnostic Speaks Her Truth
This week Barbara Kay of the National Post has written a thoroughly enjoyable piece titled “Religion without G-d“, where she shares her take on G-D, Community and Prayer. Kay self-identifies as a Reconstructionist, which is a little odd because she writes for Canada’s top right wing(ish) paper and I always think of the Recon’s [...]
Why I Am Not a Reform Jew - Even if I Get the Magazine…
Given some reading I have done lately, and the degree to which I have enjoyed recent conversations I have had with friends about this topic, I thought it might be interesting to write about why, despite the fact that I am a member of a Reform/Reconstructionist shul, I am NOT a Reform Jew.
The Reform Movement [...]
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