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Parah Aduma, the Golden Calf, and Egla Arufa
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (34+ words) Real time news brief - Parah Aduma, the Golden Calf, and Egla Arufa - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Parah Aduma, the Golden Calf, and Egla Arufa...
The Blogs: Trapped in the Perception Box of Palestine
7+ hour, 5+ min ago (585+ words) I have thought about those people often while reading Hussein Aboubakr Mansour's remarkable essay, A Metacritique of Palestine. Mansour's importance lies not only in his conclusions, but in his vantage point: he critiques the symbolic politics of Palestine from within…...
America was only meant to be a temporary home for Jews
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (1286+ words) Have Jews finally realized that they were deluded to think that "they had achieved a permanent insider status, rendering it immune to the historical cycles of antisemitic blowback? That is the contention of writer Daniel M. Rosen in his article entitled,…...
What happens when students lead Jewish learning: An experiment in Jewish male engagement
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (320+ words) On a Tuesday night at Penn State, groups of fraternity brothers gather in their living rooms to talk about masculinity, responsibility and what it means to be a Jewish man. There is no rabbi or teacher at the front of…...
Jewish community divided over potential merger of State Dept. s antisemitism, Holocaust affairs envoys
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (1116+ words) With Holocaust affairs envoy Ellen Germain expected to retire, Jewish organizations are split over whether the two diplomatic posts should be consolidated Ellen Germain speaking at the Rumbach synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, in November 2022. Jewish communal groups are at loggerheads…...
Early Lighting and/or Late Bracha
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (663+ words) The Jewish Link Early Lighting and/or Late Bracha Question: I, a single man, take in Shabbat early and have no one to light candles for me after plag ha Mincha (a "relative" 1" hours before sunset). Considering the light will…...
Misreading Intentions
11+ hour, 54+ min ago (606+ words) We had hit rock bottom. After the sin of the spies, we were sentenced to wander the desert for 40 years. Every adult over 20 was condemned to die before entering Eretz Yisrael. At this point, we spiraled into a full-blown rebellion…...
Fox News "Antisemitism Exposed" Newsletter: Ivy student blasted after nixing 'working for a Jew"
11+ hour, 1+ min ago (354+ words) Fox News "Antisemitism Exposed" Newsletter: Ivy student blasted after nixing 'working for a Jew' Fox News Fox News' "Antisemitism Exposed" newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U. S IN TODAY'S NEWSLETTER: - Ivy League student investigated after…...
Lubavitch on the Palisades Visits the Rebbe's Ohel
10+ hour, 33+ min ago (126+ words) (Courtesy of Lubavitch on the Palisades) On Wednesday evening, June 10, Lubavitch on the Palisades in Tenafly took an inspirational trip to the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in honor of the Rebbe's 32nd yahrzeit. After learning together…...
The God you don't believe in (and the Zionism you don't believe in either)
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (692+ words) Young Jews are rejecting a version of Zionism they've absorbed from social media feeds rather than studied. The right response from rabbis, parents and educators isn't panic or pamphlets, but the Jewish tradition of meaningfully wrestling with our questions. It's…...