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News Walking Streets of Jaffa to Promote One-State Solution
It’s an ideology with few followers among Israeli Jews, but activists for the one-state solution are reaching out to American visitors via tours of the Arab-Jewish town of Jaffa. And they are doing so with the help of Israel’s Reform movement. Jaffa, now part of the municipality of Tel Aviv, was a town in which…
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Life The ‘Friday Night Lights’ Rabbi
On the day I was to interview Rabbi Holly Cohn, the new spiritual leader at the lone congregation serving a 100-mile radius of West Texas, at Odessa’s tiny Temple Beth El, the television series “Friday Night Lights” was trending on Twitter. The story of the fictional town of Dillon, Tex., where high school football is…
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Life Separate-Gender Jewish Activities: It’s Good To Have Rooms of Our Own
I have to disagree with Chanel Dubofsky’s Sisterhood post in which she contends that new interest in Jewish men’s clubs reflects male anxiety about a supposed women’s takeover of Jewish organizations and life. I think it’s great that a non-Orthodox Jewish organization is making progress in engaging Jewish men. The goal is to have everyone…
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The Schmooze Glenn Beck: Reform Judaism and ‘Radicalized Islam’ Are Different
Glenn Beck has cleared things up: Reform Judaism and “radicalized Islam” don’t have so much in common, after all. The Fox News host apologized on his radio show today for comments he made Tuesday on television, in which he likened a form of Judaism practiced by millions to the version of Islam practiced by terrorists….
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The Schmooze 30 Days, 30 Texts: The Torah
In celebration of Jewish Book Month, The Arty Semite is partnering with the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) and the Jewish Book Council to present “30 Days, 30 Texts,” a series of reflections by community leaders on the books that influenced their Jewish journeys. Today, Cheryl Weiner writes about the Torah. Every week,…
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Food Is the Reform Movement Going Kosher?
This story is cross-posted from JTA. Kosher — it’s the first word in the book. And tackling the “k” word head-on is part of what makes the first Reform guide to Jewish dietary practice so significant. “The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic,” to be published next month by the Reform rabbinical association, uses…
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Life Watch the Exchange Between Yoffie and Ben-Ami
In case you missed the exchange between J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami and Union for Reform Judaism president Eric Yoffie — moderated by Forward editor Jane Eisner — at the recently wrapped J Street conference, you can watch it in its entirety here: Other videos of conference sessions can be viewed here.
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Life Jews Against Jumbotrons
The Reform movement’s exploration of Protestant mega-churches as a potential model for reinvigorating Jewish worship doesn’t have everyone kvelling. The problem, as some see it, is that the mega-church model just isn’t, well, very Jewish. Blogger Daniel Burstyn comments on the use of “jumbo-trons” at the Union for Reform Judaism’s recent biennial follow this line…
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