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Parshat Lech-Lecha
By: Aaron Freeman on: Oct 18,2007 In: African-American, Bush, Comedy, Humor, JVoices, Jewish Life, TorahWhadya Talk? A Jewish Blogosphere RoundUp
By: Cole on: Oct 15,2007 In: Blogosphere, Jewish Life, MishegaasWhy not? What’s the good word out there? A few highlights from our peers:
Jspot tackles the thorny issue of Barney Frank striking gender identity from ENDA legislative bill slated for vote in “Leave no one behind.”
Muzzlewatch link’s to Amy Goodman’s interview with Haaretz’s top political columnist Akiva Eldar, stating, “We are in a different mode, [...]
Keshet Seeks Qualified, Energetic Development Assistant
By: Cole on: Oct 7,2007 In: Jewish Life, Job, LGBTQKeshet Seeks Qualified, Energetic Development Assistant
Based in Boston, Keshet is a dynamic grassroots organization that works for the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews in Jewish life. Keshet offers training, resources, and technical assistance for GLBT inclusion in Jewish communities nationwide and sponsors community events for GLBT Jews in the Greater Boston [...]
Two dysfunctional shofars, and a lesson learned
By: Marisa on: Sep 24,2007 In: Holidays, Jewish Life, Rosh Hashanah, TorahIn Deuteronomy chapter 21, we are told that the parents of a wayward child can have the child stoned to death if “he does not listen to the voice of his father or his mother and does not obey them.” Much earlier, in Exodus chapter 24, when god and Moses give the children of Israel [...]
missionaries at work
By: daniel on: Sep 11,2007 In: Christian Right, Community Building and Organizing, Economic Justice, Education, Giuliani, History, Ideas, Imperialism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jewish Plurality, Local Organizing, Mishegaas, Opinion, Policy, Politics, Progressive Jews, Religion, Secular, Social Action, Social Justice, Spirituality, Synagogue Life, Tradition, Visionwhenever i start to get bored with the idea of staying vocal as one of the surprisingly few non-closeted secularists in most of the electronic jewish spaces i frequent, something like this comes up.
ruth messinger, former manhattan borough president, american jewish world service president, and makher-in-chief of the current (and problematic as well as important, [...]
Trembling on the Road
By: Sandi DuBowski on: Sep 8,2007 In: Events, JVoices, Jewish Life, LGBTQ, Local Organizingtwo takes on tisha b’av
By: daniel on: Aug 2,2007 In: Anti-Semitism, Arts and Culture, Community Building and Organizing, History, Holidays, Ideas, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Plurality, Opinion, Politics, Progressive Jews, Religion, Secular, Social Justice, Traditionone.
i’ve been meaning to write something about the destruction of temples, and whether it’s something to mourn. partly because i have a soft spot for some aspects of tisha b’av despite my secularism, and partly inspired by a friend’s experience being told by a progressive jewish organization that a drash she wrote for them [...]
Manners Equivalent to Men
By: Noach on: Jul 10,2007 In: Gender, Halacha, Ideas, Israel, Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Jewish Plurality, Tradition, Transgender“Androgynos is in some manners equivalent to men and in some manners equivalent to women; in some manners equivalent to both men and women; and in some manners equivalent to neither men nor women.�
(Mishnah Ze’raim, Bikkurim)
I don’t know how many men have studied this text in yeshivah or on
candlelit kitchen tables over the centuries. As [...]
Zeus, king of the Greek gods, was not mentioned in this week’s parsha, though the Greeks did, for a time, occupy Palestine. His appearance as YHWH’s confessor is a device to let us put words in her mouth about how she might have felt about this week’s shocking turnaround in her relationship with Moses. [...]
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