Editor’s Note: The following sermon was delivered during the recent High Holy Days by Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Congregation Etz Chaim of Atlanta, Georgia By Rabbi Shalom Lewis The words I am about to share will be riddled with controversy. Some will squirm in their seats and I will squirm here on the bima but […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAThe Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) today welcomed a series of directives from the Trump Administration to protect religious freedom and the rights of unborn children able to feel pain. Late last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor, and the Office of Management and Budget all
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Jewish Religion, USAAlexandria’s Menasce Synagogue has been placed on Egypt’s Heritage List, reports Nevine El-Aref Alexandria’s Menasce Synagogue The Menasce Synagogue is located in Mansheya Square in central Alexandria, its simple architectural style and façade being complemented by decorated arcaded widows. This week, more than 100 years after it was built, the synagogue has been added to
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRabbi Shlomo Riskin will step down from running the network of liberal Orthodox schools and seminaries he founded. The Israeli-American leader will retire in July 2018 as chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, a network of educational institutions that has pushed the limits of traditional Jewish law to be more inclusive of women and converts. Rabbi
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastA shipment of 20,000 date palm fronds were trucked Monday from the Gaza Strip to Israel where they were to be sold for use in a traditional Jewish religious ritual during the coming Sukkot holiday, the Defense Ministry said. A closed palm frond, known in Hebrew as a lulav, is gathered along with myrtle stalks,
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastA Swiss lawmaker resigned after comparing the transportation of pigs for farming to the transportation of prisoners to Auschwitz. “The (Nazi) deportees had only a slight chance to survive. As for the pigs, they are condemned to certain death,” Swiss Green Party lawmaker Jonas Fricker said on Thursday during a debate in the National Council,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The temporary structures, or sukkahs, in which Jews celebrate the holiday of Sukkot typically are thrown up by Jewish families or congregations to partake in celebratory communal meals and to welcome strangers to our community. However, the sukkah just recently built at the Jewish Family Service (JFS) campus
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationUS Vice President Mike Pence blessed the Jewish people in honor of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). “On this holiest of Jewish days, may our Jewish friends be granted a Yom Kippur of atonement, forgiveness and inscription in the Book of Life,” Pence tweeted. US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka tweeted, “Wishing everyone an
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Jewish Religion, USAThe IDF announced on Thursday that it will put in place a closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, ahead of the holiday of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, which starts Friday evening. The closure is expected to last until midnight on Saturday, “depending on a
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe Bnei Brak municipality has threatened to cancel the Tel Aviv light-rail train project if work on the route takes place on the Yom Kippur holiday as planned. NTA Ltd, which has been contracted to build the Tel-Aviv light rail, first informed the Bnei Brak Municipality that they would be carrying out underground drilling work
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRabbi Joshua Haberman, rabbi emeritus of the Washington Hebrew Congregation and founder of the Foundation for Jewish Studies, died this week at 98. Haberman, who represented the Jewish community during the memorial service for the victims of 9/11 held at the National Cathedral, died Sunday at his home in Washington, DC, following a rabbinic career
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Jewish Religion, Obituaries & memorials, USA#Parasha: Weekly Insights from a Leading Israeli Journalist by Sivan Rahav-Meir, Menorah Books, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-59264-480-3, p. 321, plus glossary of Names, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Sivan Rahav-Meir, the author of #Parasha, is an anchorwoman on Israeli Channel 2, a columnist for Yediot Aḥaronot, Israel’s largest newspaper, and a weekly radio
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionRick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents Reform congregations in North America, penned an open letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday, demanding he recognize the Reform Movement”s “rights” to a non-traditional prayer space at the Western Wall and official recognition by the State of Israel. The Reform Movement, represented in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Former high school physics teacher Fred Reiss has liked series of numbers since he was a little boy. He recalls that he was approximately six years old when he would stand on the front porch of his aunt’s house in South Philadelphia and count the number of students
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