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Asher Lopatin to head Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
Rabbi Asher Loptatin, current spiritual leader of the modern Orthodox Congregation Anshe Sholom Bnai Israel in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, will assume leadership of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in...
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Erika Davis: “What I’m trying to help people understand is that all Jews are...
Erika Davis is the Chief of Staff at Hazon. She also works as a freelance writer for The Sisterhood, Jewcy, Kveller and others while maintaining her personal blog Black, Gay and Jewish. Erika likes...
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Things to do on Yom Kippur
Something to consider when you are doing whatever it is you do on Yom Kippur: on the holiday in September 1907, Emma Goldman held a picnic “for free thinkers and radicals” in Central Park. Leah...
View ArticleOn generosity and justice
So what else is there to say about Mitt Romney’s tax returns? I would suggest that we could learn at least two things from them. First, on a personal level, it seems that Mitt and Ann Romney are very...
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Urgent action: Israel to jail 15,000 Sudanese refugees on Oct 15
Update 10/13: A judge has ordered a temporary injunction prohibiting the round up, following a petition by six Israeli human rights NGOs. Eli Yishai, Israel’s Interior Minister, said about the 60,000...
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What would Henrietta Szold do?
While building up excitement for their Centennial celebration, Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Org of America was all abuzz about prayer services at the Kotel with Women of the Wall. Today, following the...
View ArticleWhat is at stake?: Elections, budgets, ethics
My latest post on Justice in the City. It seems that every third line in any debate or speech by any candidate or advocate of public policy is about money. About the so-called bottom line. Who can and...
View ArticleWhere Were You?
On Monday, October 22, more than 120 viewers logged on to watch a ProZion UK live webcast of Anat Hoffman being interviewed by Deborah Blausten. All over the world, watching and listening, live...
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Endeavor to Repair
Credit: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry. Used with permission. One of my best friends went dark when Hurricane Sandy crashed into the States. I kept her Twitter and Facebook open, vainly hoping for an update....
View ArticleOrder of the Seder for Tu Bishvat
I know what you’re thinking – you want to refer to the 4 worlds in your Tu Bishvat seder but they’re confusing and…oh, if there were only a song that allowed you to sing through the four worlds (like...
View ArticleResponse to H’zon
(Crossposted to Mah Rabu.) I hope everyone had a great New Year of the Trees! Several days ago, the Jewish environmental organization H’zon put up (and sent to their email list) a blog post defending...
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“Liberating” the Western Wall — again
This morning in Jerusalem, the Women of the Wall brought heavy Israeli symbolism along with 150 participants to their monthly peaceful protest — three of the IDF veterans who captured the wall in the...
View ArticleAction alert: Eritrean asylum seekers to be deported
From the young activists in Israel with Amnesty International, an urgent appeal to Diaspora Jews who remember the times when we were refugees: STOP THE DEPORTATION OF 25 ERITREAN ASLYUM SEEKERS FROM...
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Monday Nights in Brooklyn: Seeking Peace and Justice with Dasi Fruchter
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Ultra-orthodox call for protest rally against Women of the Wall; support...
This weekend, a poster appeared all over ultra-orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem against Women of the Wall‘s fight for gender equality at holy sites in Israel. The poster calls for ultra-Orthodox...
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JustCity Summer Pre-College Program at JTS
This summer, the Jewish Theological Seminary’s List College is introducing an exciting new pre-college summer program focusing on service learning. Inspired by the success of its undergraduate...
View ArticleNew Jewish Gap Year Program in Portland, Oregon
This is a guest post by William Deresiewicz, a board member of Tivnu: Building Justice. Bill is a writer and former English professor at Yale. Who says that working with your hands can’t be a form of...
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Be a National Havurah Committee Fellow at this Summer’s Institute
Previous NHC Fellows Short of a J-Street conference or a Limmud event, you’d be hard-pressed to find an annual gathering that attracts as many Jewschool writers as the National Havurah’s Summer...
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Join Jewish Women Watching: Applications Due May 1st!
If you want to get in on the work of Jewish Women Watching, the anonymous feminist group monitoring and responding to sexism in Jewish communities, apply now! The group is taking applications for new...
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