Jewish Religion

Face-to-Face with Her Mortality, She Stopped Taking Things for Granted

After experiencing a sudden life-threatening situation in a foreign country three months ago, I now understand more viscerally the “who will live and who will die” part of the High Holy Days. [Marsha Sutton]

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Federation Conducts Training Program for Students to Fight Antisemitism

This program is for Jewish high school students to join a research-backed initiative that empowers them to combat antisemitism by sharing their Jewish identity and what it means to them personally. Students are provided the conversational and social tools necessary to navigate rising antisemitism and build strong relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish students. [Cailin Acosta]

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Crises Spawn Creativity; Let it Be So in This Period of Crisis for the Jewish People

Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur wrote, “We are in a time of mashber. It’s a time of anger and hope, death and life. It’s the birthing of something new and no one knows what that’s going to be.” [Heidi Gantwerk]

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The Meaning of the Shofar Blasts

When we hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, it reminds us that G-d created the world, and He is our King. Additionally, when we hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, it reminds us to reflect on our past mistakes and return to G-d. [Cailin Acosta]

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Two Jewish Sons in the NFL Prompt Proud Dad’s Memoir

Now comes a memoir by Schwartz’s proud father, an ultimate football fan who estimates he had personally attended some 300 games counting high school, college, and professional contests that Mitchell and his older brother, Geoff have participated in. [Donald H. Harrison]

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‘As a Jew’ Tells How Judaism is an Evolving Religion

At its core, the book feels like an inviting crash course in Judaism. Hurwitz doesn’t present texts, history, ethics, or rituals as abstract or academic. Instead, she brings them to life showing how Judaism has always been dynamic, evolving, and deeply rooted in human experience. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.]

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My Mother’s Avinu Malkeinu

When she returned to Moscow in 1947, just after the war, she had no doubt where she wanted to study. She wanted to sing. And where had her beloved singer, Nadezhda Obukhova, graduated from? The Moscow Conservatory. That’s where my mother applied. [Yakov Nayerman]

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