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Open thread: Rabbinical hiring rules by seminaries are inescapably illegal
October 5, 2010This just in by anti-trust lawyer and professor Barak D. Richman : The inescapable conclusion is that the [Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly]‘
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My letter to the editor of The NJ Jewish Standard
October 5, 2010The following was crossposted to the blog at New Voices. It was also emailed to New Jersey Jewish Standard Editor Rebecca Boroson, who you can also email at editor {at} jewishmediagroup(.)com var mailNode = document.getElementById(‘emob-rqvgbe@wrjvfuzrqvntebhc.pbz-68′); var linkNode = document.createElement(‘a’); linkNode.setAttribute(‘href’, “mailto:%65%64%69%74%6F%72%40%6A%65%77%69%73%68%6D%65%64%69%61%67%72%6F%75%70%2E%63%6F%6D”); tNode = document.createTextNode(“editor [...]
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Hold them to a Higher Standard
October 5, 2010This morning, I saw a post on my friend Darya’s Facebook page: ugh. Not that I expect a whole lot from local Jewish newspapers, but seriously? http://www.jstandard.com/content/item/a_statement_from_the_jewish_standard/ I’ll save you the click. The link is to a statement signed by the paper’s editor, Rebecca Kaplan Boroson, saying the following: We set off a firestorm last [...]
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Envisioning Justice: The 15th Annual New Generations Benefit
October 4, 2010Ten artists were selected to showcase their visual art on Israeli social justice issues at this year’s New Generations Benefit on Thursday, October 21st, including Anisa Ashkar, Natan Dvir, Yael Frank, Hannah Fluk, Tanya Habjouqa, Itamar Jobani, Gil Lavi, Ahikam Seri, Ilan Spira and others soon to be announced! Join fellow fans of a better Israel fighting [...]
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Listening in on the Nobel Delegation
October 4, 2010Author and feminist powerhouse Jaclyn Friedman is currently on a delegation with the Nobel Women’s Initiative, traveling around Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, meeting women on both sides of the conflict involved in peacemaking work. Jaclyn wrote from Ramallah: Once again, I find myself strangely hopeful, despite the odds. Not because I think it [...]
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Sifrei Torah, captive and mutilated
October 4, 2010This eBay item makes me want to cry. It’s advertising a “Torah Scroll 400 Years Old Approx 10.8 Feet Long” and you can see from the picture that something’s seriously, seriously wrong. People have been selling pieces of sifrei Torah on eBay for years. They get old sifrei Torah, hack them into pieces, and sell [...]
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Hasty generalization
October 3, 2010(Crossposted to Mah Rabu.) A wise person I know says “Whenever I read articles where I know something about the content, I always find mistakes or misunderstandings, which makes me wonder how many mistakes there are in articles where I’m not familiar with the topic.” We get to see this principle in action as the [...]
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Dear Queer Kids, Please Stop Killing Yourselves
October 3, 2010This week our country has finally woken up to the epidemic of gay teen suicide. Don’t be fooled by the media into thinking there’s been a sudden uptick in queer kids killing themselves — this has been going on for far too long. But for whatever reason, now people are starting to notice. Dan [...]
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Prediction
October 3, 2010(Crossposted to Mah Rabu.) The holiday season is now over. And something about it may have felt a bit out of the ordinary, unusual, abnormal. And based on recent experience, that feeling is accurate. But in the 2010s, abnormal is becoming the new normal. In the last decade, as often as not, the Jewish [...]
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Live from the Jewschool contributors email list: Is Eshet Chayil a Hypocritical Prayer?
October 3, 2010Contributors, if you want to claim your thoughts in this, leave a comment and I’ll adjust accordingly. Yesterday, I emailed a post from The Forward’s Sisterhood Blog to the Jewschool contributors list. The post, by Debra Nussbaum Cohen, reads: At Shabbat dinner in traditional Jewish homes the hymn ’
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If my pen is offensive, Im gonna need some kind of warning.
October 3, 2010Crossposted to The Reform Shuckle If your communal standards are non-standard, do us all a favor and have some signs made. Please? Last year, I spent all of Yom Kipur and the morning of Simchat Torah at Kehilat Hadar. I did a repeat performance this year, adding several hours at Bnai Jeshurun on the night [...]
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Without Helen Thomases, would Abe Foxman still want to be Jewish?
October 1, 2010Kudos to EV’s latest comfort zone-negating comic aimed at the ugly recesses of establishment Jewry’s view of Jews, Judaism, Israel and all those arrayed to wipe us out. Without the specter of Helen Thomases under the bed, would the previous generation of Jews have cared to be Jewish? Or would they, like our generation, opt-in [...]
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Single Women Might Not Be Doomed
September 30, 2010For two summers during college, I interned at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, an organization whose mission is to develop new ways of thinking about Judaism and gender via academic research and art. Their internship program is amazing, an example of a rare and genuine commitment to empowering young women’s creativity and scholarship. 614: :HBI Zine, the Institutes’s [...]
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In Defense of Sukkahfest
September 29, 2010Rabbi David Teutsch once said two things about Judaism that stuck with me. ”Judaism is fundamentally counter-cultural and it is also fundamentally communitarian.” There is no holiday where I find that to be more true than during sukkot. If you haven’t been to Sukkahfest in the past 5 years at Isabella Freedman chances are [...]
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Jewish boat to Ashdod achieves pageantry
September 29, 2010The British catamaran Irene, the “Jewish boat to Gaza,” was diverted to Ashdod without incident and without capturing world attention as during Israel’s boarding of the Turkish Mavi Marmara. This was the second boat following the Marmara to be diverted. Predictions of a media circus failed to bear fruit. Apparently, the global media is bored of this [...]