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Liminal and limitless
February 21, 2011Ordination, my spiritual director told me recently, can be like childbirth. Yes, one opens up and something comes through one — but that’s not the end of the journey, it’s only the beginning. The work now is to learn how to keep my own spiritual channels open so that blessing can continue to flow, and [...]
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Video from AJOP Convention- a must see!!!
January 28, 2011AJOP released video highlights from their convention last week.
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Israeli Settler Right Bullies Rabbi Ascherman, Protesting at His Home
January 19, 2011The Israeli settler far-right, as part of its campaign of vitriol and intimidation is stalking Rabbi Arik Ascherman, founder of Rabbis for Human Rights. They will be demonstrating outside his home later today (Wednesday) against his alleged campaign to destroy Jewish sovereignty over all of historic Eretz Yisrael. The far-right says he “sabotages the redemption [...]
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Rabbah Redux
January 17, 2011JTA reports that last month, the 140 member International Rabbinic Fellowship narrowly voted down admitting women to its ranks as either full or limited members. The Dec. 20 vote came after what the president of the organization, Rabbi Barry Gelman of Houston, told The Jewish Week was a ‘
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State approves all conversions
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Israeli Settler-Rabbi to Infertile Jewish Couples: Goyish Sperm Leads to Criminality, Barbarism
January 13, 2011I swear these rabbis are such sitting ducks sometimes I feel sorry for ‘em that I have write posts like this. But given the nuttiness they espouse, what choice does one have? One of Israeli Orthodoxy’s leading rabbinic lights, Rabbi Dov Lior, chief rabbi of that idyllic Jewish town of Hebron, told a conference at [...]
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Israeli Settler Peace Rabbi Froman Ill With Cancer
January 5, 2011Rabbi Menachem Froman, a settler rabbi who is also a confidant of Hamas and thorn in the side of the Shabak, has received a cancer diagnosis. His doctors decided the illness was so advanced they would not operate. As a result, his family arranged for a massive celebration in song and Torah study at his [...]
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New introduction to “Novarodok” posted online
January 4, 2011Avakesh has posted Rabbi Meir Levin’s new introduction to the French edition of the book Novarodok here. This quote is particularly interesting:I would be over-reaching if I claimed credit for Alan Morinis’
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The Race Is On
January 2, 2011Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Safed, has been summoned by police concerning a letter he published advising the public not to rent or sell homes to Arabs. On Friday, Eliyahu told Yediot Achronot he refuses to answer the summons. Police are reportedly seeking to interrogate the chief rabbi on suspicion of incitement to racism. He [...]
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Rabbi Orders Shop Owners Who Employ Jewish Girls Not to Hire Arabs
December 12, 2010I couldn’t have made this up myself if I’d tried: the rabbis of the largely Yemenite city of Rosh Ha-Ayin (English), including the chief rabbi, declared a ban on hiring Arabs at stores which employ Jewish girls. I swear to you, it’s true. If you’d told me this story came out of Pakistan or Kandahar [...]
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Photographer finds unique way to celebrate Jewish learning
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Woman rabbi to be ordained in Germany
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Settler Rabbi: Celebrating Murder of Palestinians Great Mitzvah
October 16, 2010You may remember during the 1991 Iraq war that Saddam launched several SCUDs which hit Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli. There was dancing on the rooftops in the West Bank. Israelis were aghast and used that for years as an indignant proof of the brutishness of the Palestinian national movement. Now picture this, Palestinian [...]
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Rabbi Avraham Yosef: Be Sephardic!
October 13, 2010Good idea, but… Rabbi Avraham Yosef, Chief Rabbi of Holon and the son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef recently stirred up some controversy when he declared that any newly religious Jew must follow Sephardic tradition, even if the person is originally of Ashkenazic descent. Rabbi Avraham Yosef is considered by most to be [...]
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Top rabbis: IDF conversions endorse gentiles as Jews
October 13, 2010