Qur`ānic Commentators on Jewish and Zoroastrian Approaches to
... since the children might starve if the women were forbidden from doing so. The Zoroastrians believed that a menstruating woman is possessed by a demon. As a result, they were afraid of her gaze.18 In addition, menstruating women were forbidden to walk without shoes, because it was believed they woul ...
... since the children might starve if the women were forbidden from doing so. The Zoroastrians believed that a menstruating woman is possessed by a demon. As a result, they were afraid of her gaze.18 In addition, menstruating women were forbidden to walk without shoes, because it was believed they woul ...
It is ironic that Shavuot is such a little-known holiday
... Those who study all night then say the morning prayers at the earliest permitted time – thus expressing the enthusiasm of the Jewish people to receive the Torah. Most synagogues and yeshivot will organize special classes and lectures throughout the night of Shavuot. At synagogue services on Shavuot ...
... Those who study all night then say the morning prayers at the earliest permitted time – thus expressing the enthusiasm of the Jewish people to receive the Torah. Most synagogues and yeshivot will organize special classes and lectures throughout the night of Shavuot. At synagogue services on Shavuot ...
Great World Religions: Judaism
... suggestions, as well as the opposition at times to the very notion that this can be achieved without inadvertently relegating everything else to a secondary status, will inform us signi¿cantly on the diversity of Jewish self-de¿nition throughout history. The purpose of these lectures is to present J ...
... suggestions, as well as the opposition at times to the very notion that this can be achieved without inadvertently relegating everything else to a secondary status, will inform us signi¿cantly on the diversity of Jewish self-de¿nition throughout history. The purpose of these lectures is to present J ...
Strengthening Our Belief in Hashem and His Beautiful Torah – Part
... despite their dispersion throughout the globe, see Dr. Karen Bacon, The Torah U-Madda Journal 3:1-7; there have been further DNA studies demonstrating that Sephardic, Ashkenzaic and Yemenite Jews share a common Middle Eastern ancestry). For further elaboration on this idea see Rav Lawrence Kelemen’s ...
... despite their dispersion throughout the globe, see Dr. Karen Bacon, The Torah U-Madda Journal 3:1-7; there have been further DNA studies demonstrating that Sephardic, Ashkenzaic and Yemenite Jews share a common Middle Eastern ancestry). For further elaboration on this idea see Rav Lawrence Kelemen’s ...
synagogue services 2012 version
... Synagogues are generally run by a board of directors composed of lay people. They manage and maintain the synagogue and its activities, and hire a rabbi for the community. It is worth noting that a synagogue can exist without a rabbi: religious services can be, and often are, conducted by lay peop ...
... Synagogues are generally run by a board of directors composed of lay people. They manage and maintain the synagogue and its activities, and hire a rabbi for the community. It is worth noting that a synagogue can exist without a rabbi: religious services can be, and often are, conducted by lay peop ...
Denominations in Judaism
... The congregation in the courtyard belonged to one of the few Conservative synagogues in Israel, and each time its members had attempted to worship at the Wall with men and women together it had been attacked. On Shavuot two years earlier, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students had rained soiled diapers on ...
... The congregation in the courtyard belonged to one of the few Conservative synagogues in Israel, and each time its members had attempted to worship at the Wall with men and women together it had been attacked. On Shavuot two years earlier, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students had rained soiled diapers on ...
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... be an ordinary congregation, but one that furthered Kaplan’s ideology through adult education, Jewish cultural activities, participation in Zionist causes, and changes in liturgy. Using loose leaf binders to supplement the traditional prayer book, Kaplan removed prayers referring to the choseness of ...
... be an ordinary congregation, but one that furthered Kaplan’s ideology through adult education, Jewish cultural activities, participation in Zionist causes, and changes in liturgy. Using loose leaf binders to supplement the traditional prayer book, Kaplan removed prayers referring to the choseness of ...
Reasons and Seasons to Celebrate
... Sunset, May 26 through sundown, May 28 (one day only for Reform Jews and in Israel) ...
... Sunset, May 26 through sundown, May 28 (one day only for Reform Jews and in Israel) ...
The ways that parted: Jews, Christians, and Jewish
... http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-ofuse#LAA ...
... http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-ofuse#LAA ...
The ways that parted: Jews, Christians, and Jewish
... http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-ofuse#LAA ...
... http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-ofuse#LAA ...
The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
... painful memories, moral problematic conflicts with others, oppressive minutiae, and obligations so great I felt guilty no matter what I accomplished. Yet on balance the overwhelming effect has been to fill my life with a sense of Divine Presence and human continuity, bondedness, joy, textured living ...
... painful memories, moral problematic conflicts with others, oppressive minutiae, and obligations so great I felt guilty no matter what I accomplished. Yet on balance the overwhelming effect has been to fill my life with a sense of Divine Presence and human continuity, bondedness, joy, textured living ...
A Symbol and Tool of Hybridity: The Organ and
... move to the Prussian capital, Jacobson initiated similar reforms to those made in Cassel. Because he did not have a system of synagogues under his control, he gathered a group of like-minded Jews and opened his home to them for services. When the liturgicallyreformed services, which included organ a ...
... move to the Prussian capital, Jacobson initiated similar reforms to those made in Cassel. Because he did not have a system of synagogues under his control, he gathered a group of like-minded Jews and opened his home to them for services. When the liturgicallyreformed services, which included organ a ...
Judaism
... eight-stringed tassels on its four corners, which provide it with religious significance. In addition to the prayer tallis, an observant Jew wears at all times a smaller four-cornered garment (tallis katan), with similar tassels, under his shirt. It covers the shoulders, chest, and back. Inmates in ...
... eight-stringed tassels on its four corners, which provide it with religious significance. In addition to the prayer tallis, an observant Jew wears at all times a smaller four-cornered garment (tallis katan), with similar tassels, under his shirt. It covers the shoulders, chest, and back. Inmates in ...
Unity of Faiths - Judaism
... Isaac as a religious sacrifice. When the father and son arrived at the chosen site, Abraham bound Isaac and placed him upon an altar. As Abraham raised his knife, God sent an angel to stop him. God praised Abraham because he had not withheld his son, and sent a ram to take Isaac’s place as the burnt ...
... Isaac as a religious sacrifice. When the father and son arrived at the chosen site, Abraham bound Isaac and placed him upon an altar. As Abraham raised his knife, God sent an angel to stop him. God praised Abraham because he had not withheld his son, and sent a ram to take Isaac’s place as the burnt ...
Eliezer Berkovits, Theologian of Zionism
... emergence of a new moral doctrine, but on a moral exemplar on the level of the human community. “For the deed to be effective,” he writes in God, Man and History, “it must not remain the act of an individual, but must become that of a community. The deed makes history if it is the materialization of ...
... emergence of a new moral doctrine, but on a moral exemplar on the level of the human community. “For the deed to be effective,” he writes in God, Man and History, “it must not remain the act of an individual, but must become that of a community. The deed makes history if it is the materialization of ...
File - Schuster Land
... With Hitler’s rise to power, acts of violence against Jews in Germany were instigated ...
... With Hitler’s rise to power, acts of violence against Jews in Germany were instigated ...
Judaism First Encounter
... up or folded and placed in the cracks between the stones. These have been left here by people who have come to speak with God and to remember their family members in prayer. You reflect on the historical events that led up to the building of the temple. You think of the long and great history of th ...
... up or folded and placed in the cracks between the stones. These have been left here by people who have come to speak with God and to remember their family members in prayer. You reflect on the historical events that led up to the building of the temple. You think of the long and great history of th ...
Against Zionism Jewish Perspectives
... attended the Second Conference of the International Union of Parliamentarians for the Defense of the Palestinian Cause, along with Rabbi Cohen, where he spoke about his group’s anti-Zionist beliefs. The conference was held in Beirut, Lebanon in February last year. Rabbi Ahron Cohen is one of many or ...
... attended the Second Conference of the International Union of Parliamentarians for the Defense of the Palestinian Cause, along with Rabbi Cohen, where he spoke about his group’s anti-Zionist beliefs. The conference was held in Beirut, Lebanon in February last year. Rabbi Ahron Cohen is one of many or ...
Intermarriage – Its Positive Effect on Messianic Judaism
... The Jewish spouses of Messianic intermarriages are also committed to Jewish continuity. Few people realize that the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) interviewed Messianic Jews as well as members of the rest of the Jewish community. One of the survey questions was: “Is being Jewish very ...
... The Jewish spouses of Messianic intermarriages are also committed to Jewish continuity. Few people realize that the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) interviewed Messianic Jews as well as members of the rest of the Jewish community. One of the survey questions was: “Is being Jewish very ...
(2014) Conservative Judaism_Vol 1_pg 577 to 587
... the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) was established to train English-speaking, Americanized, but traditional rabbis to serve the new immigrants. The school combined the scientific study of Jewish texts with traditional practice. Graduates founded congregations where the language of pray ...
... the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) was established to train English-speaking, Americanized, but traditional rabbis to serve the new immigrants. The school combined the scientific study of Jewish texts with traditional practice. Graduates founded congregations where the language of pray ...
Glossary of Jewish Terminology (MSWord)
... (pay-OHT) to observe the commandment in Lev. 19:27 not to round the corners of your head or mar the corners of your beard. There are points of Jewish law that allow some shaving, so you may see Orthodox Jews without full beards or peyot. Chasidic Jews do not follow this leniency. This subject has no ...
... (pay-OHT) to observe the commandment in Lev. 19:27 not to round the corners of your head or mar the corners of your beard. There are points of Jewish law that allow some shaving, so you may see Orthodox Jews without full beards or peyot. Chasidic Jews do not follow this leniency. This subject has no ...
A Jewish View on Leadership
... In my own work as a communal executive and academic I have observed that many Jews, including those who are actively involved in their synagogues and communities, and who serve tirelessly on behalf of the State of Israel and world Jewry, are often surprised to learn how much insight classical Judais ...
... In my own work as a communal executive and academic I have observed that many Jews, including those who are actively involved in their synagogues and communities, and who serve tirelessly on behalf of the State of Israel and world Jewry, are often surprised to learn how much insight classical Judais ...
Modern Judaism and Religious Tolerance
... the principle of religious tolerance. It was followed by England, which, after the Glorious Revolution, offered tolerance also to non-conformists on condition of their affirming loyalty to the King and denying the Pope. The concept of tolerance was taken to the United States of America and incorporated ...
... the principle of religious tolerance. It was followed by England, which, after the Glorious Revolution, offered tolerance also to non-conformists on condition of their affirming loyalty to the King and denying the Pope. The concept of tolerance was taken to the United States of America and incorporated ...
The Holocaust and Minnesota History
... Holocaust only with the guidance and supervision of an adult. Children at this age level often over-generalize information; for example “all Jews were killed” or “all Germans were bad.” In addition, students in elementary ages can erroneously assume that bad things happen to people because those peo ...
... Holocaust only with the guidance and supervision of an adult. Children at this age level often over-generalize information; for example “all Jews were killed” or “all Germans were bad.” In addition, students in elementary ages can erroneously assume that bad things happen to people because those peo ...