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		<title>Video: Does God Exist - A debate between Rabbi David Wolpe and Sam Harris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really not a fan of the &#8220;new atheists&#8221; which is something I&#8217;ve written about on my own blog in the past. It&#8217;s not that I have anything against atheism because I don&#8217;t. Rather it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t agree with the approach the new atheists seem to be taking. I for one don&#8217;t believe that [...]

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		<title>Don’t Worry.  Be Israeli!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a sort of companion post to Avi’s Jerusalem video, I wanted to share an article I recently came across from the online Asia Times, entitled &#8220;Why Israel is the world’s happiest country.&#8221;

It’s rare to think of Israel in any terms other than negative ones these days.  Our unenviable geographic position, our corrupt government, [...]

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		<title>Video: Jerusalem &#34;Within These Walls&#34;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I stumbled across an online version of a an old National Geographic documentary (which I&#8217;m sure was part of a larger series) on Jerusalem. It was produced back somewhere around the mid 80s, so it&#8217;s a little dated now but interesting nonetheless. It basically presents a snapshot of what the city [...]

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		<title>The Bones of Our Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would take a guess that most people who read this blog fall into one of three categories when it comes to the Bible: 1) the Bible is literal and cannot be interpreted any other way; 2) the Bible is mostly allegorical and should not be taken literally; and, 3) the Bible is part literal [...]

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		<title>Rabbinic Authority and the Convert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions I was asked in my first (of three) meetings with the beit din at my conversion dealt with what I would do if I had a question regarding Jewish ritual.  &#8220;Would you look it up yourself, or would you ask a rabbi?&#8221; asked the black-coated, bearded personage on the dais.
Now, I [...]

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		<title>The Spiritual Marketplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this for nearly a week, but last week just escaped me. So here I am, today, to share a thoughtful nosh posted up on A Simple Jew&#8217;s blog from last week. The blog post focuses on a Q&#38;A with Rabbi Dovid Sears about the &#34;spiritual marketplace&#34; mentality and the ger/ba&#8217;al [...]

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		<title>First Abayudaya Ugandan to Become a Rabbi</title>
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&#8220;First Abayudaya Ugandan Ordained at Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies&#8221; this is the title of an article I just stumbled upon on the AJU website .&#160; Gershom Sizomu is from Uganda.&#160; His ancestors converted to Judaism less than 100 years ago.&#160; The Jewish community in Uganda has quite an interesting story which you can read [...]

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		<title>The Center for Online Judaic Studies - 25 FREE sites Launched to Celebrate Israel&#8217;s 60th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
While perusing the latest issue of Moment Magazine late this afternoon Tamara and I came across something I think is worth sharing with the rest of you. In honor of the 60th anniversary of Israel is the Center for Online Judaic Studies has launched 25+ free educational website&#8217;s exploring issues related to Jewish culture [...]

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		<title>There are many styles of frumness.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And who says all frummies are right wing and think alike.&#160; Check out the latest YouTube video from FrumSatire. This guy continuously cracks me up.&#160; I don&#8217;t know, I guess I really like dry, sarcastic humor. 
Enjoy.







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		<title>She&#8217;s a convert. She&#8217;s a woman . She&#8217;s African American, and she will be a rabbi&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First African American woman convert to be ordained as a Reform Rabbi, reports the JTA.  Below is an excerpt but if you wish to read the full story, check it out on JTA. \
 Raised by Pentacostal parents, Stanton-Ogulnick spent her childhood and young adulthood as a spiritual seeker, making the rounds of various [...]

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		<title>Brief thoughts on קדושים</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Shabbat we read the Torah portion of קדושים, referred to commonly as the Holiness Code. Friday night our intern gave a sermon that referenced the fact that God commands Moses to speak to the entire congregation of Israel (kol adat Yisrael) and not just the children of Israel (b’nei Yisrael) that we usually [...]

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		<title>Reform Jews open Israel&#8217;s first state-funded non-Orthodox synagogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Haaretz article just found it&#8217;s way in to my feed reader.

Reform Jews open Israel’s first state-funded non-Orthodox synagogue
Israel&#8217;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 [...]

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		<title>The Un-Jewing of Orthodox Converts in Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that most of our reader by now have already heard about the latest in the fiasco in Israel regarding converts and the &#8220;Who is a Jew&#8221; question. But in case you haven&#8217;t here is a snippet from a recent Jerusalem Post article covering the story. 
The Jewishness of thousands of converts was cast [...]

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		<title>Commemoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when I belonged to a Reform synagogue in the U.S., I went to the rabbi’s weekly Torah study for adults on Sunday mornings.  On one such morning, while waiting for the rabbi, the students began a conversation that eventually steered around to the Shoah (Holocaust).  Never an easy phenomenon to contemplate [...]

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		<title>Books, Books, Books! We&#8217;ve Got Books!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have finally gotten around to adding a book section to JBC.org. It&#8217;s something that a few of us thought might be helpful  and of interest to our readers. It still needs some work but I think it&#8217;s safe to say that we already have a decent assortment of recommended reading on a variety [...]

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