Auburn FINAL - Jewish Community Legacy Project
... “As we stood looking at the Torah that our camp was being given, I thought of all the stories it could tell —not just the ones contained in its text, but the stories of generations of Jews who have chanted its words, learned its teachings, and danced with it on Simchat Torah. How may Kol Nidre chant ...
... “As we stood looking at the Torah that our camp was being given, I thought of all the stories it could tell —not just the ones contained in its text, but the stories of generations of Jews who have chanted its words, learned its teachings, and danced with it on Simchat Torah. How may Kol Nidre chant ...
1be Judaism and Science
... This unit looks at some of the key issues relating to Judaism and science and asks whether scientific developments are viewed positively within Judaism. We discover NASA’s answers to questions about whether a Jewish astronaut can be kosher in space, as well as discovering how different Jews understa ...
... This unit looks at some of the key issues relating to Judaism and science and asks whether scientific developments are viewed positively within Judaism. We discover NASA’s answers to questions about whether a Jewish astronaut can be kosher in space, as well as discovering how different Jews understa ...
responses - Darchei Noam
... engagement within Judaism and embracing modernity. Sense of community, showing the greater Jewish community what modern orthodox is all about It’s like one large family Intimate community; religious Zionism; intellectual community; simplicity in davening and organizational structure—things get done ...
... engagement within Judaism and embracing modernity. Sense of community, showing the greater Jewish community what modern orthodox is all about It’s like one large family Intimate community; religious Zionism; intellectual community; simplicity in davening and organizational structure—things get done ...
Judaism - Europe
... SPREAD OF JUDAISM Abraham moved to Canaan (the Promised Land) to start a new religion The Jews were enslaved by the Egyptian pharoah, and then rescued by Moses Judaism prospered during the rule of several powerful kings, such as Saul, David, and Solomon Today, there are over 13 million follow ...
... SPREAD OF JUDAISM Abraham moved to Canaan (the Promised Land) to start a new religion The Jews were enslaved by the Egyptian pharoah, and then rescued by Moses Judaism prospered during the rule of several powerful kings, such as Saul, David, and Solomon Today, there are over 13 million follow ...
Jewish Sects
... women can be rabbis and the full participation of gays is accepted in reform Judaism unlike the other sects. ...
... women can be rabbis and the full participation of gays is accepted in reform Judaism unlike the other sects. ...
Judaism - Distribution Access
... Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans then deport the Jews from Judea to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. c200–250 C.E. — The Mishna, the first Rabinic literature, is written. It is based on the oral traditions of Judaism and explains how to apply the sacred scriptures and the oral traditions to every ...
... Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans then deport the Jews from Judea to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. c200–250 C.E. — The Mishna, the first Rabinic literature, is written. It is based on the oral traditions of Judaism and explains how to apply the sacred scriptures and the oral traditions to every ...
JUDAISM - Library Video Company
... Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans then deport the Jews from Judea to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. c200–250 C.E. — The Mishna, the first Rabinic literature, is written. It is based on the oral traditions of Judaism and explains how to apply the sacred scriptures and the oral traditions to every ...
... Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans then deport the Jews from Judea to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. c200–250 C.E. — The Mishna, the first Rabinic literature, is written. It is based on the oral traditions of Judaism and explains how to apply the sacred scriptures and the oral traditions to every ...
Israel Jacobson Award of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany
... Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen! For me as the preceding recipient of the Israel Jacobson Award it is a real pleasure to congratulate you most cordially to this highest honour which the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany can bestow upon a person who has strrived for Liberal Judaism to grow and to bl ...
... Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen! For me as the preceding recipient of the Israel Jacobson Award it is a real pleasure to congratulate you most cordially to this highest honour which the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany can bestow upon a person who has strrived for Liberal Judaism to grow and to bl ...
HISTORICIZING ORTHODOXY
... development of halakah in Ashkenaz throughout much of the medieval period, Landau ruled leniently in this particular case and with regard to other maters by privileging the earlier Talmudic sources, much as Rabbi Elijah b. Solomon Zalman (1720–1797), the Gaon of Vilna, did in his own halakic writing ...
... development of halakah in Ashkenaz throughout much of the medieval period, Landau ruled leniently in this particular case and with regard to other maters by privileging the earlier Talmudic sources, much as Rabbi Elijah b. Solomon Zalman (1720–1797), the Gaon of Vilna, did in his own halakic writing ...
NewsViews_ActionConversion
... week Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) program that provides the fundamentals of Jewish thought and practice (and is now available, through community partnerships, in 14 U.S. states; for more information visit urj.org/learning/classes/intro/). Held after services each Saturday, the San Juan class becam ...
... week Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) program that provides the fundamentals of Jewish thought and practice (and is now available, through community partnerships, in 14 U.S. states; for more information visit urj.org/learning/classes/intro/). Held after services each Saturday, the San Juan class becam ...
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... the Torah has been divided into 54 sections, so that if each of these sections is read and studied for a week, the entire Torah can be covered in a year every year The Torah is performed with great ceremony: the Torah is paraded around the room before it is brought to rest on the bimah (podium), ...
... the Torah has been divided into 54 sections, so that if each of these sections is read and studied for a week, the entire Torah can be covered in a year every year The Torah is performed with great ceremony: the Torah is paraded around the room before it is brought to rest on the bimah (podium), ...
B`NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE - B`nai Israel
... each Jewish community must establish a public fund to provide food for the hungry, and our sages explain that feeding the hungry is one of our most important responsibilities on earth: “When you are asked in the world to come, ‘What was your work?’ and you answer: ‘I fed the hungry,’ you will be tol ...
... each Jewish community must establish a public fund to provide food for the hungry, and our sages explain that feeding the hungry is one of our most important responsibilities on earth: “When you are asked in the world to come, ‘What was your work?’ and you answer: ‘I fed the hungry,’ you will be tol ...
NEWSVIEWS_Noteworthy
... Rabbinic Transition Consulting for Congregations: The Union for Reform Judaism now offers a consulting program for member congregations in the first year of rabbinic transition as of July 1, 2011. After congregations contact the CCAR Rabbinic Placement office, the Union will provide complimentary se ...
... Rabbinic Transition Consulting for Congregations: The Union for Reform Judaism now offers a consulting program for member congregations in the first year of rabbinic transition as of July 1, 2011. After congregations contact the CCAR Rabbinic Placement office, the Union will provide complimentary se ...
Jewish Sacred Text
... ritual purity – to be holy, a person needs to only come in contact with holy and pure things. The laws of ritual purity include food (kashrut laws about food preparation, combination and appropriateness), coming in contact with corpses, impure people, and women who are menstruating. ...
... ritual purity – to be holy, a person needs to only come in contact with holy and pure things. The laws of ritual purity include food (kashrut laws about food preparation, combination and appropriateness), coming in contact with corpses, impure people, and women who are menstruating. ...
File - Ms. West
... • He attended Yeshiva University and graduated summa cum laude in English literature in 1950. • He attended Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi. • Potok served as combat chaplain with the United States Army in Korea from 1955 to 1957. • He taught at sev ...
... • He attended Yeshiva University and graduated summa cum laude in English literature in 1950. • He attended Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi. • Potok served as combat chaplain with the United States Army in Korea from 1955 to 1957. • He taught at sev ...
Document
... ities, the classic books, and the seminal ideas which have emerged within the Conservative and Reform movements. In their public comments (and contrary to Rabbi Stolper there have been public comments, one emanating from the organization for which he works — the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation ...
... ities, the classic books, and the seminal ideas which have emerged within the Conservative and Reform movements. In their public comments (and contrary to Rabbi Stolper there have been public comments, one emanating from the organization for which he works — the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation ...
Understanding the Major Branches of Modern Judaism
... based in Jewish history and communal practice. However, Frankel's use of modern methods of historical scholarship in analyzing Jewish texts and developing Jewish law set him apart from neo-Orthodox Judaism, which was concurrently developing under the leadership of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. recons ...
... based in Jewish history and communal practice. However, Frankel's use of modern methods of historical scholarship in analyzing Jewish texts and developing Jewish law set him apart from neo-Orthodox Judaism, which was concurrently developing under the leadership of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. recons ...
(grandson of Rav Breuer) regarding Rabbi Joseph Elias
... Dear Rabbi Wolpin, Rabbi Joseph Elias in “Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Evolution---The View from His Commentary” (Jewish Observer, September 2006) contends that Rabbi Hirsch’s essay “The Educational Value of Judaism” (1873), in which evolution is discussed, “was written in a gingerly manner that ...
... Dear Rabbi Wolpin, Rabbi Joseph Elias in “Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Evolution---The View from His Commentary” (Jewish Observer, September 2006) contends that Rabbi Hirsch’s essay “The Educational Value of Judaism” (1873), in which evolution is discussed, “was written in a gingerly manner that ...
Introduction to Judaism
... JUDAISM course is $280. This tuition fee allows either one or two people to attend the classes. We encourage couples to register together or singles to invite an interested friend. Tuition includes a nonrefundable $50 registration fee. For duespaying members of a URJ-affiliated Reform congregation, ...
... JUDAISM course is $280. This tuition fee allows either one or two people to attend the classes. We encourage couples to register together or singles to invite an interested friend. Tuition includes a nonrefundable $50 registration fee. For duespaying members of a URJ-affiliated Reform congregation, ...
introduction to judaism
... JUDAISM course is $280. This tuition fee allows either one or two people to attend the classes. We encourage couples to register together or singles to invite an interested friend. Tuition includes a nonrefundable $50 registration fee. For duespaying members of a URJ-affiliated Reform congregation, ...
... JUDAISM course is $280. This tuition fee allows either one or two people to attend the classes. We encourage couples to register together or singles to invite an interested friend. Tuition includes a nonrefundable $50 registration fee. For duespaying members of a URJ-affiliated Reform congregation, ...
What do you know about Judaism?
... land which God promised to give his descendants. Approximately 450 years later, God rescued the Jews from slavery in Egypt (the Exodus) and led them back to the land of Israel with Moses as their leader. God then made a further covenant with the nation at Mount Sinai. He revealed the Torah, includin ...
... land which God promised to give his descendants. Approximately 450 years later, God rescued the Jews from slavery in Egypt (the Exodus) and led them back to the land of Israel with Moses as their leader. God then made a further covenant with the nation at Mount Sinai. He revealed the Torah, includin ...
Talmud Torah
... are told Torah was written by God, or written by Moses or orally compiled by the sages and then transcribed, some eyes glaze over and many ears tune out. Have you noticed, the Pledge of Allegiance is recited, the Gettysburg Address is memorized, and all know about the Bill of Rights. These all are p ...
... are told Torah was written by God, or written by Moses or orally compiled by the sages and then transcribed, some eyes glaze over and many ears tune out. Have you noticed, the Pledge of Allegiance is recited, the Gettysburg Address is memorized, and all know about the Bill of Rights. These all are p ...
Jewish Thinkers
... religious community, Jews felt impelled to reorganize their sense of identity. Competing views regarding the format of the new, voluntary Jewish community led to the emergence of modern denominationalism. • The first denominational vision of modern Judaism to emerge was Reform, which developed first ...
... religious community, Jews felt impelled to reorganize their sense of identity. Competing views regarding the format of the new, voluntary Jewish community led to the emergence of modern denominationalism. • The first denominational vision of modern Judaism to emerge was Reform, which developed first ...
Al Cheit Shechatanu L`fanecha: For the Sin of Extremism - Beth
... when made for the sake of heaven. Yet, when made for malicious, self-serving, or extremist causes, they should be avoided and are frowned upon. This saying, from Pirke Avot, the ethical sayings of the ancient rabbis, continues by giving the rebellion of Korach, who held extremist views opposing Mose ...
... when made for the sake of heaven. Yet, when made for malicious, self-serving, or extremist causes, they should be avoided and are frowned upon. This saying, from Pirke Avot, the ethical sayings of the ancient rabbis, continues by giving the rebellion of Korach, who held extremist views opposing Mose ...
Judaism
... •Hillel’s answer to the Gentile (transparency) –Leviticus. 19:18 –Torah –All else is commentary –Go to study Torah (not synagogue for prayer; not temple for sacrifice; not meditation) ...
... •Hillel’s answer to the Gentile (transparency) –Leviticus. 19:18 –Torah –All else is commentary –Go to study Torah (not synagogue for prayer; not temple for sacrifice; not meditation) ...
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Kt (Hebrew: Yaakov Zvi, יעקב צבי) (born 8 March 1948) is a British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he was the Chief Rabbi of those Orthodox synagogues, but was not recognized as the religious authority for the haredi Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or for the progressive movements such as Masorti, Reform and Liberal Judaism. As Chief Rabbi, Sacks formally carried the title of Av Beit Din (head) of the London Beth Din.Since stepping down as Chief Rabbi, in addition to his international travelling and speaking engagements and prolific writing, Sacks has served as the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He has also been appointed as Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King's College London.