From RRW
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/196382/chinas-secrets-of-jewish-success
Sunday 31 January 2016
Friday 29 January 2016
Mosaica Press -- Jewish Books for Today
From RRW
Check out some interesting titles here. This is FYI and NOT any kind of endorsement.
Thursday 28 January 2016
Tuesday 26 January 2016
An Intersectional Failure: How Both Israel's Backers and Critics Write Mizrahi Jews Out of the Story
From RRW
«When asked to speak at certain Zionist functions, many Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa are asked to focus on the mistreatment they experienced under Arab rule—not the ways in which they successfully coexisted with Muslims, or the serious discrimination they have faced in Israeli society after arriving in the Promised Land. In anti-Zionist circles the situation inverts: the hosts are delighted to hear tales of Israeli malfeasance but are deeply hostile if the topic turns to the oppression and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries or if the Jews proclaim a proud connection to Israel. Either way, non-Ashkenazi Jews are engaged with only as far as they support someone else’s narrative. Once they seek to speak in their own voice, their putative allies disappear.‘Most non-Ashkenazi Jews in the world live in Israel, and so a boycott of Israel functionally acts to exclude most Jews of color from global conversations.’»
Monday 25 January 2016
Stephen S. Wise and the Holocaust
From RRW
The Jewish Voice:
Stephen S. Wise and the Holocaust: Failures of Jewish Leaders ‑ Then and Now
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13213:stephen-s-wise-and-the-holocaust-failures-of-jewish-leaders--then-and-now&catid=108:jewcy-news&Itemid=291
The Jewish Voice:
Stephen S. Wise and the Holocaust: Failures of Jewish Leaders ‑ Then and Now
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13213:stephen-s-wise-and-the-holocaust-failures-of-jewish-leaders--then-and-now&catid=108:jewcy-news&Itemid=291
Sunday 24 January 2016
Orthodox Shul Treads Lightly On Rabbi Title
From RRW
And so it starts...an article from The Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/orthodox-shul-treads-lightly-rabbi-title
And so it starts...an article from The Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/orthodox-shul-treads-lightly-rabbi-title
Friday 22 January 2016
Thursday 21 January 2016
FORMER JEWS FOR JESUS MISSIONARY SPEAKS OUT
From RRW
Subject: A Cult Victim speaks out
While this video is a few years old, its message is as relevant today as when it was first delivered.Jews may learn more compassion by listening how a vulnerable Jewish College Age Kid is easy pray to cults. Instead of judging, maybe we need more kindness and empathy.
Tuesday 19 January 2016
JVO Blog: Within Torah, Disagreement Can Breed Love
Jewish Values Online (jewishvaluesonline.org)
is a website that asks the Jewish view on a variety of
issues, some specifically Jewish and some from the world
around us -- and then presents answers from each of the
denominations of Judaism. Nishmablog's Blogmaster Rabbi
Wolpoe and Nishma's Founding Director, Rabbi Hecht, both serve
as Orthodox members of their Panel of Scholars. Nishmablog, over the years, has also featured the responses on JVO by one of our two Nishma Scholars who are
on this panel.
Recently, the Jewish Values Online website has offered a new service -- a blog which presents comments on various topics within Judaism and the Jewish world. See
http://www.jewishvaluesonline.org/jvoblog/index?aid=0.
Rabbi Hecht is now also a blogger on this site and will be developing a series entitled
The Distinctiveness of Judaism,
His latest post
Within Torah, Disagreement Can Breed Love
is now available at http://jewishvaluescenter.org/jvoblog/within-Torah
A link is also up on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JewishValuesOnline/posts/1096889077009841?fref=nf
Recently, the Jewish Values Online website has offered a new service -- a blog which presents comments on various topics within Judaism and the Jewish world. See
http://www.jewishvaluesonline.org/jvoblog/index?aid=0.
Rabbi Hecht is now also a blogger on this site and will be developing a series entitled
The Distinctiveness of Judaism,
His latest post
Within Torah, Disagreement Can Breed Love
is now available at http://jewishvaluescenter.org/jvoblog/within-Torah
A link is also up on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JewishValuesOnline/posts/1096889077009841?fref=nf
Monday 18 January 2016
Pope Francis at Rome synagogue: God's covenant with Jews 'irrevocable'
From RRW
"“Violence by man against man is in contradiction with any religion worthy of that name, and in particular with the three great monotheistic religions,” Francis told a crowd filling the Great Synagogue just down the Tiber River from the Vatican. “Life is sacred, a gift of God.”“Every human being, as a creature of God, is our brother, regardless of his or her origin or religious affiliation,” he said, calling on Christians and Jews to “put into practice the logic of peace, of reconciliation, of forgiveness” in the Middle East and elsewhere."
Sunday 17 January 2016
Free Free Palestine, BDS and end the occupation, are all about destroying
From RRW
Be strong and resolute: Free Free Palestine, BDS and end the occupation, are about destroying all OF Israel, killing Jews and enhancing terror..
http://strongandresolute.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/free-free-palestine-is-about-destroying.html?m=1
Be strong and resolute: Free Free Palestine, BDS and end the occupation, are about destroying all OF Israel, killing Jews and enhancing terror..
http://strongandresolute.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/free-free-palestine-is-about-destroying.html?m=1
Saturday 16 January 2016
Mussar: Moed Katan 12b - Adam Hashuv Shani
Originally published on 6/11/11, 9:56 pm.
I've witnessed the following debate among several colleagues.
A. Rabbis should hold themselves to the same Kashrut standards as their communities; that is the law is the same for all
B. Rabbis should hold themselves to a higher standard, because if they take advantage of some leniencies, their congregations will exploit them even more. Give them an inch and they'll take a foot. Alternatively, the trickle down theory, if Rabbis observe at EG level #9, then congregants might make it to #7. But, If Rabbis start at #7 then congregants will be reduced to #5.
The Talmud in Moed Katan strongly suggests that an Adam Hashuv IS held to a higher standard and is EXPECTED to refrain from what is permitted at least in cases that present a side of prohibition.
It seems obvious to me that pulpit rabbis therefore need to be aware of this G'mara and wary of taking advantage of too many kullot
Kein Nireh Lee.
Shalom,
RRW
I've witnessed the following debate among several colleagues.
A. Rabbis should hold themselves to the same Kashrut standards as their communities; that is the law is the same for all
B. Rabbis should hold themselves to a higher standard, because if they take advantage of some leniencies, their congregations will exploit them even more. Give them an inch and they'll take a foot. Alternatively, the trickle down theory, if Rabbis observe at EG level #9, then congregants might make it to #7. But, If Rabbis start at #7 then congregants will be reduced to #5.
The Talmud in Moed Katan strongly suggests that an Adam Hashuv IS held to a higher standard and is EXPECTED to refrain from what is permitted at least in cases that present a side of prohibition.
It seems obvious to me that pulpit rabbis therefore need to be aware of this G'mara and wary of taking advantage of too many kullot
Kein Nireh Lee.
Shalom,
RRW
Friday 15 January 2016
The Tragedy of the Modern Day Court Jew
From RRW
The phenomenon of the court Jew, voicing the Jewish community’s interests, began in the Middle Ages.
An article from the Jewish Press by Rabbi Philip Lefkowitz
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/the-tragedy-of-the-modern-day-court-jew/2016/01/12/
Thursday 14 January 2016
Tuesday 12 January 2016
Monday 11 January 2016
Anti-Israel historians get a taste of their own medicine
From RRW
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr"
Which explains how most anti-Zionists are essentially haters and eventually losers, because their agenda is Hatred.
An Opinion piece from the Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Anti-Israel-historians-get-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine-439176
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr"
If they wanted peace and harmony in the Middle East, instead of Anti-Semitism, they'd find a more win-win solution.
RRW
Sunday 10 January 2016
Why Israel's Chief Rabbinate will go extinct
From RRW
This is something that demands our attention and thought
An article from David Golinkin
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-the-chief-rabbinate-of-israel-will-eventually-disappear/#
Friday 8 January 2016
Further on Christopher Hitchens and the origins of anti-semitism
From RRW
First see http://nishmablog.blogspot.ca/2016/01/christopher-hitchens-on-origins-of-anti.html
First see http://nishmablog.blogspot.ca/2016/01/christopher-hitchens-on-origins-of-anti.html
Now, Christopher Hitchens further conversation with Martin Amis discussing anti-semitism and England with Jeffrey Goldberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxTubvpM3k&sns=em
Thursday 7 January 2016
Wednesday 6 January 2016
The Catholic Church and the Jews
from RRW
A Jewish Press article from Rabbi Phil Lefkowitz
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-catholic-church-and-the-jews/2015/12/20/
A Jewish Press article from Rabbi Phil Lefkowitz
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-catholic-church-and-the-jews/2015/12/20/
Tuesday 5 January 2016
Monday 4 January 2016
Sunday 3 January 2016
Friday 1 January 2016
Why ‘good for Jews’ is bad for Jews
from RRW
An Opinion from the Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Why-good-for-Jews-is-bad-for-Jews-437808
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