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Masorti Minyan at the Knesset: A Personal Reflection
Posted on January 26, 2012

By Jennifer Gorman, Executive Director, Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism Note: Rabbi Gorman led the first Masorti minyan at the Knesset on Tuesday, January 24. It was...

By Jennifer Gorman, Executive Director, Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism Note: Rabbi Gorman led the first Masorti minyan at the Knesset on Tuesday, January 24. It was covered by Ynet (English, Hebrew), JPost, and JTA, among others. Photos of the minyan are available here.I am not usually...
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JTS Launches New Continuing Education Initiative for Rabbis at 2012 RA Convention
Posted on January 24, 2012

This year at the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) Convention, The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) will offer a groundbreaking continuing rabbinic education track. It will be open to 40...

This year at the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) Convention, The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) will offer a groundbreaking continuing rabbinic education track. It will be open to 40 Convention registrants on a first-come, first-served basis. The theme for the track is “Making Torah Relevant to ‘Next...
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Texts on Humanity's Relationship to Nature
Posted on January 23, 2012

This source sheet is a collection of various Jewish texts addressing the issue of energy consumption.Download the source sheet

This source sheet is a collection of various Jewish texts addressing the issue of energy consumption.Download the source sheet
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CJ Classics: Civil Rights
Posted on January 5, 2012

In anticipation of Martin Luther King Day, we've wiped the dust off of these CJ Journal Classics:Photo on bottom right: Courtesy of Susannah HeschelConversation with Martin...

In anticipation of Martin Luther King Day, we've wiped the dust off of these CJ Journal Classics:Photo on bottom right: Courtesy of Susannah HeschelConversation with Martin Luther King Spring 1968 (Vol. 22 No. 3)On the evening of March 25, 1968, ten days before he was killed, Dr. Martin Luther...
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Reflections on Heschel's Upcoming Yarzheit
Posted on January 5, 2012

By Jan Caryl KaufmanI will never forget where I was on December 23, 1972 when I learned of the passing of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. I was a junior in college and had gone to...

By Jan Caryl KaufmanI will never forget where I was on December 23, 1972 when I learned of the passing of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. I was a junior in college and had gone to my evening classes at the Baltimore Hebrew College. I was looking at a bulletin board a few minutes before class and our...
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CJ Classics: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Posted on January 5, 2012

In honor of Abraham Joshua Heschel's Yarzheit, we've wiped the dust off of these CJ Journal Classics:From the CJ Journal published in honor of his 25th Yartzheit (Winter/Spring...

In honor of Abraham Joshua Heschel's Yarzheit, we've wiped the dust off of these CJ Journal Classics:From the CJ Journal published in honor of his 25th Yartzheit (Winter/Spring 1998, Vol. 50 No. 2-3):Heschel's Torah min ha-shamayim: Ancient Theology and Contemporary Autobiography By Gordon...
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Let There Be Light
Posted on January 1, 2012

In response to photos of the protests in Jerusalem where a misguided few dressed their children in concentration camp uniforms and yellow stars, we cannot stay silent. Whatever...

In response to photos of the protests in Jerusalem where a misguided few dressed their children in concentration camp uniforms and yellow stars, we cannot stay silent. Whatever they meant, they told the world that their Judaism is engulfed in darkness. We live rich Jewish lives every day. Our...
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Hodesh Tov - Tevet
Posted on December 26, 2011

“Jewish-Gentile Relations in Tanaitic Halakhah”by Moti Arad, lecturer in Talmud, Schechter Institute

“Jewish-Gentile Relations in Tanaitic Halakhah”by Moti Arad, lecturer in Talmud, Schechter Institute
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