Dr. Gerald Schroeder published an article in Aish.com about the age of the Universe and the Jewish bible: So the only data I use as far as Biblical commentary goes is ancient commentary. That m...| Skeptics Stack Exchange
In Judaism, the house is a holy place. It’s where traditions and mitzvot are practiced and passed down. When it comes to the environment, the household is also a major driver of climate change. While there is a global push to shift from dependence on coal, oil and gas for power to renewable energy such... Read More The post Australian ‘It’s Time’ initiative encourages Jewish households to ‘electrify’ and make greener choices appeared first on eJewishPhilanthropy.| eJewishPhilanthropy
Contra the modernist aesthetes, he believed in “the interdependence of knowledge and virtue.”| Modern Age
As a rabbi and as the son of a Christian mother, I value interreligious encounters that respect each heritage’s integrity while forging new paths forward. The post A rabbi’s take on Leo XIV’s opportune moment to deepen Jewish-Catholic relations appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
After Hamas carried out the October 7th attack, Israel, under Netanyahu's government, has become more and more radical in words and in actions against Palestinians. In particular, Israel plans to o...| Politics Stack Exchange
Jewish groups say new food safety rules infringe on faith. Regulators argue they’re needed to ensure animals don’t suffer The post The Beef Over Kosher Beef first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
Unlike the conversion of the gentile and pagan nations, the conversion of the Jews to the Catholic Faith will come about through their Jewishness, as a fulfillment.| Crisis Magazine
(RNS) — It all worked out OK. But there are many lessons here. The post How a film festival nearly censored Jewish memory appeared first on RNS.| RNS
“There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of YHWH of armies will accomplish this.” Isaiah 9:7 (vs. 6 in some translations) […] The post Is the Messiah Supposed to Bring World Peace? appeared first on The Torah Guide.| The Torah Guide
Is a virgin birth possible? The virgin birth is impossible as far as science goes. The human body doesn’t work that way; the egg needs to be fertilized. But then, wooden staffs can’t turn into living snakes, looking at a serpent lifted up on a pole can’t heal you from deadly snake venom, the sun […] The post Is the Virgin Birth Jewish? appeared first on The Torah Guide.| The Torah Guide
Early Jewish Interpretation A common misconception about the New Testament is that it teaches belief in three gods. I mean look, the trinity is a core idea in Christianity. Everyone knows the trinity is three God’s –case closed. Well, “Trinity” is a contraction of the words Tri-unity. So, “trinity” is intended to emphasize God’s oneness. […] The post Is the God of the Old Testament a Trinity? appeared first on The Torah Guide.| The Torah Guide
No one would call a Christian a “faithful Jew.” Why, then, do some—men who should know better—call Jesus, the author of Christianity, a “faithful Jew?”| Crisis Magazine
Patriotism’s relationship to history is bound to be complicated.| Law & Liberty
In the poem “Exile for the Sake of Redemption,” Yehoshua November dares to bring the Divine down to earth. This suggests that it is up to us as it is to God to “engage in activities that we imagine will enrich our future.” Teaching and learning are two of those activities. Poetry—writing and reading it—is another.| Slant Books
A festive and crowd-pleasing appetizer for Rosh Hashanah or your Yom Kippur breakfast: an apples and honey themed cheese board! And in keeping with the Jewish tradition of not mixing meat and dairy, this cheese board is completely vegetarian. Thanks to Cabot Creamery Co-operative for sponsoring this High Holiday recipe. Rosh Hashanah begins on the... Read More » The post Rosh Hashanah Cheese Board appeared first on West of the Loop.| West of the Loop
Imagine a cinnamon babka topped with sweet icing and decorated with sprinkles in classic Mardi Gras colors of green, gold and purple. It’s a King Cake Babka! Are you a fan of King Cake? My daughter has a friend whose mother is from New Orleans and every February when the girls were in elementary school,... Read More » The post King Cake Babka appeared first on West of the Loop.| West of the Loop
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The Torah Our Children Are Teaching Us: Reflections for Tisha B’Av hese fragments of memory have become a kind of living Torah, scattered throughout our cities. Just as Pirkei Avot, the Ethics of our Fathers, guides us in how to live and treat others by wisdom passed down from earlier generations, these stickers form what […]| Ohr Torah Stone
(The Conversation) — Violence in the West Bank has intensified since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.| RNS
The Healing of Tobit by Bernardo Strozzi (CC0 1.0). There is ongoing discourse about the relationship between patient agency and external factors in health outcomes. It can be difficult to identify the multifaceted variables that answer the question of why one person becomes ill and not another. While individual action does certainly play a role,…Read More| Canopy Forum
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious student at the Bradfield Institute.| RNS
This is my latest article on CT. You can get the original here…. Twenty-one years ago, a clip from the Da Ali G show caused a storm when it showed ‘Borat’ (Sacha Baron Cohen) performing a so…| TheWeeFlea.com
We talk a great deal about the mindset and worldview of the Hebrew people, because that’s the only way to understand the Bible. But not everything about that outlook is admirable, especially …| Radix Fidem Blog
To help make ends meet and help you understand the origins of Christianity better than the Christians themselves would ever let you if they had their way, every season I’ll post three books from my long-standing recommendations list, and review and discuss their value. And here’s how you can help: I am an Amazon Associate. […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Dara Horn – The Eicha Problem As you heard, I’m a novelist. But the more salient aspect of my life at the moment is that I’m the mother of a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 2-year…| Merrimack Valley Havurah
“It is a tradition that is really interested in dwelling on a word, dwelling with a question.” ~ Rabbi Nancy Flam I’ve long wanted to do a series of conversations about curiosity in different faith practices. I come from the Quaker tradition, which centers “that of God” in each person and — in the version with which […]| Listening to the Universe
In this interview in the Jewish Joy series, we sit down with a pair of Sephardic Jewish authors, Sarah Aroeste and Bridget Hodder.| Multicultural Kid Blogs
by Matthew Ong cover art: Helios surrounded by a zodiac wheel, detail from the mosaic floor of the Hammat Tiberias Synagogue, 4th c. CE (picture from Wikipedia) During Roman rule there was no forced mass expulsion of people living in the region surrounding the province of Judea to an area outside that region. This holds … Continue reading Myth: “In 70 CE Jews were expelled from their homes in the coastal Southeastern Mediterranean” – #EOPalestine 17 →| Everyday Orientalism
by Stephennie Mulder Cover art: Mosaic fragment depicting King David in the guise of the Greek musician and prophet Orpheus, from the Synagogue of Gaza, 508 CE (Wikimedia Commons) If you’ve heard that assertion before, you’re not alone. There’s only one problem: it’s not true. While it’s certainly true that the region has known its … Continue reading Religious coexistence in Gaza – #EOPalestine 15→| Everyday Orientalism
by Noha Abou-Khatwa cover art: “Jerusalem is my city” (2020) by artist and educator Heba Zagout, who the IOF killed in her Gaza home on Oct. 13, 2023. Picture from her Instagram account. As the gate to the Levant, the Muslim conquest of Gaza was amongst the earliest of Arab victories against the Byzantine army. … Continue reading Myth: “Palestinians are all Muslim and as such they are antisemites” – #EOPalestine 11→| Everyday Orientalism
There was a time, and not so long ago, I would walk into my synagogue for Shabbat services, and be greeted at the entrance by other well-dressed members of the congregation who would smile and gre…| Envisioning The American Dream
I’m Heidi Rabinowitz and I am so happy to be Jewish. The beautiful and varied customs, the focus on deep thought and learning, and the historical connections going back over the centuries, all bring me joy. That’s why I’ve dedicated my career to synagogue librarianship and why I’ve been podcasting about Jewish children’s literature for […] The post Jewish Joy with Lesléa Newman appeared first on Multicultural Kid Blogs.| Multicultural Kid Blogs
When I stepped foot into the JCC for the first time, I wasn’t expecting to see a bag of Sour Patch Kids.| jGirls+ Magazine
Lawrence’s “The Migration Series” is painted with Casein tempera, a paint derived from milk protein. HeLevi’s poems are composed of air from the lungs, the vibration of the vocal cords, and the shaping of sounds with the mouth and throat. The voice was translated into visual form, alphabetic writing, and was initially preserved in iron gall ink written on parchment or vellum. This poem, these paintings: wonders. The might of human imagination and artistry. The post Where I Find You ap...| Slant Books
Meet Emi Watanabe Cohen, an author who mixes the folklore of her Jewish and Japanese ancestors into contemporary magical worlds.| Multicultural Kid Blogs
According to documents declassified in 2000, in 1988 the CIA conducted an experiment as part of a secret project called "Sun Streak," in which they used| www.israelhayom.com
A conversation woth Shoshana Nambi, an author whose writing invokes a strong sense of place and a love of her community.| Multicultural Kid Blogs
Baby Goats Resting on the Road by Amaury Laporte (CC BY-SA 2.0). If anyone unfamiliar with Judaism were to be introduced to the concept of a kosher kitchen for the first time, they would likely raise questions. Why does the family have different dishes and cutlery for meat and dairy foods? While that may be…Read More| Canopy Forum
This essay isn’t political. It’s about the heart. It’s about the spirit, bruised, battered. It’s about friends, this essay. They feel agitated. They feel helpless. They are limiting their exposure to the minute-by-minute updates. They are turning off their news feeds. Or they are obsessively refreshing their screens. Fueling and refueling their rage, their fear, their despair.| Slant Books
Jewish Wedding by Wincenty Smokowski (1858, US-PD). Throughout the Pentateuch and subsequently in the books of the Prophets and Writings, readers are confronted with the existence of polygamous relationships – Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon, to name a mere few – but as of the eleventh century CE, Jewish men have been prohibited from taking…Read More| Canopy Forum
I've been thinking lately about how we can be refuges of acceptance, calm,and love for each other. After all, it's been and it is a helluva time (and time out of time). Personally, I've lost two very close friends this winter, and politically, the speed and depth of loss, chaos, and uncertainty is painful, disorienting, and terrifying.When I think of someone who truly embodies the best we can be for each other, I think of my friend Jack Winerock. No wonder then that to celebrate his 80th birthda| CMG
My friend, colleague, and fellow interfaith traveler Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen recently had his book “God Shall be One” – Reenvisioning Judaism’s Approach to Other Religions (Maggid Press, 2024) …| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
Karl Shapiro was a leading poet of his time: winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for 1946-1947, editor of Poetry magazine from 1950 to 1954. And he was included in the 1956 anthology Fifteen Modern American Poets, along with poets like Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, and Theodore Roethke.| Slant Books
Happy birthday for a 2nd time On Christmas night, the first night of Hanukkah, and my sister-in-law Karen's birthday, we light a bunch of...| Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Explore Jewish joy with Veera Hiranandani, a biracial Jewish author, in this exclusive interview about the power of diverse representation.| Multicultural Kid Blogs
Explore the diverse Jewish identity of Emily Bowen Cohen, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation member and author-illustrator, in this interview.| Multicultural Kid Blogs
A fascinating history of the healing power of crystals and gemstones in the judaism including reference to the stones in the Ephod (Hoshen Stones).| Kibitz Spot
September 17, eight days before the Asheville storm, my wife and I left town. First stop, D.C. to visit our son and his partner. Next stop, New Rochelle, N.Y. to visit our daughter and her boys. Monday, September 30, the day after a “Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry” retreat for the board and staff in Manhattan: head home. Settle back just in time for the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. That was the plan.| Slant Books
There is a mild debate in Israel over a little introduction to medieval thought published by Prof Shalom Sadik who advocates a Maimonidean rational naturalism and Rabbi Shmuel Ariel who presents a religious critique Prof Sadik in his book A … Continue reading →| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
For those who bought the new volume of Rabbi Shagar translations which I edited with Levi Morrow (Maggid – Koren 2024). There was one small 1500 word section that was removed from the book by…| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
Turning: an, if not the, essential act of Jewish life. Teshuvah, we call it. Repentance, it’s translated. “Teshuvah,” writes Rabbi Alan Lew, is “a Hebrew word that we struggle to translate. We call it repentance. We call it return. We call it a turning. It is all of these things and none of these things. It is a word that points us to the realm beyond language, the realm of pure motion and form.”| Slant Books
Yiddish slang has worked it's way into English, often popping up where we don't even recognize it. Here are 25 Yiddish words you should know.| Kibitz Spot
Translation and commentary by Saul Sadka Pinchas commentary by Saul Sadka (This is a PDF best read on a computer or tablet.) 1. Israel settled in Shittim and the people began whoring after Moabite …| Merrimack Valley Havurah
Prayer. It never fails. I take my place in the pew. I fling my tallis, my prayer shawl, over my head. It lands like a bird on my shoulders. I put on my reading glasses. I take the siddur, the prayer book, from its pocket in the back of the pew in front of me. Because I never arrive on time, I search for the place where we are in the service.| Slant Books
Since October 7, 2023, the world has been focused on the Holy Land. And not in a positive or hopeful way. So what better time for Bret Lott’s latest book—Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land—to come out? As he notes in his foreword, Lott delivered the manuscript to his publisher in the summer of 2023, when it was possible to find in Israel the subtitle’s “hope.” And find it he does.| Slant Books
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This year’s first seder: with strangers. Not exactly strangers. Poets. I knew the work of a few of them. One is a dear friend. Two spouses, one of whom is my wife. Sitting down at the diaspora seder table—(diaspora Jews hold two seders; Israeli Jews, one)—,I assumed most if not all of the twelve of us were Jews. Strangers? Not exactly.| Slant Books
Our mouths, our words, can be used for good or ill, to liberate or enslave, to bless or curse or encourage, to ask difficult questions. We share our stories, so others might be invited to tell their stories in turn, allowing us to not simply scream at and past each other but to see what values we might hold in common, to perhaps one day even arrive at a place of mutual understanding and esteem.| Slant Books
In John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, fictitious British secret service officer Alec Leamas concludes that spies are a “procession of fools, traitors, and pansies.”[1] If Leamas is …| BruceAshford.net
The prayer book’s title, Mishkan T’filah, comes from this verse: “And let them build Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them” (Exodus 25:8). “Mishkan T’filah,” write Rabbis Elyse D. Frishman and Peter S. Knobel, editor and chair of the editorial committee respectively, “is a dwelling place for prayer, one that moves with us wherever we might be physically or spiritually.”| Slant Books
Two weeks after the dramatic July 4, 1976, rescue of hostages—Israeli as well as non-Israeli Jews—from Entebbe International Airport, I learned my first word of modern Hebrew: savlanut. Along with seventy other volunteers, I was in a chapel across from the JFK terminal where our El Al flight would depart for Israel in a few hours. Savlanut, that’s the most important word, said Nurit, the director of Sherut La’am, told us.| Slant Books
I accompany you as you hold onto your walker, taking one difficult step after another, inching your way, labored breath by breath, toward the dining room, a meal you refuse to eat. My life, as it always has been, is elsewhere. So, every day we FaceTime. We don’t have much to say to each other now. But with many words or few, distant or near, we still, as long as you are in this world, know each other’s presence.| Slant Books
Street portrait. Jerusalem, February 2019.| Cardinal Guzman
As the COVID-19 pandemic seems both behind us and still present as a threat and a collective trauma, Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague could not have come at a better time.| The Marginalia Review of Books
