Judaism Archives

06 Oct

From the Newsletter, Jewish World, Latest

From the Newsletter | The Brilliant and Formidable Alice Shalvi

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Eetta Prince-Gibson

October 6, 2023

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When she died on October 2 at age 96, Alice Shalvi left behind scores of mourning family members and friends in Israel and abroad, hundreds...

26 Dec

Highlights, Latest, The Wisdom Project

Wisdom Project | Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, 89

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Noah Phillips

December 26, 2022

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"It took me a long time, but I learned how to love people," says Rabbi Arthur Waskow. "I realized I had been not-soft, not-loving. I'd been sharp and smart, maybe even partly wise, but not loving."

Hazel Homer-Wambeam, the first Jewish Miss Wyoming, stands on stage wearing a pink gown and a crown a top her blonde curly hair. Her hand is over her mouth and she is holding a bouquet of roses.

14 Nov

Culture, Latest

First Jewish Miss Wyoming Heading to National Stage

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Fallon Roth

November 14, 2022

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Hazel Homer-Wambeam hails from a small but mighty Jewish community in Laramie, Wyoming. With only 1,150 Jews in the whole Cowboy State and no synagogue...

10 Jul

Religion, Summer Issue 2020

The Tradition of Respecting the Dead

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Ellen Meltzer

April 17, 2022

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Through plagues, pandemics and wars, Jewish communities have found ways to adapt their traditional practices to the events of the time. Today, with the spread of COVID-19, many Jewish traditions have had to change.

Sharing the Narrative: How Muslims & Jews Can Remember the Holocaust Together

21 Apr

Jewish World, Latest

Sharing the Narrative: How Muslims & Jews Can Remember the Holocaust Together

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Ari Gordon

April 16, 2021

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In January, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), in partnership with the Muslim World League (MWL), brought 62 Muslims and 20 Jews from 28 countries together for a two-day interfaith mission in Poland.

18 Jan

Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World, Winter Issue 2019

Ask The Rabbis | How Has Pittsburgh Changed Jewish Life for Your Community?

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Moment

December 23, 2021

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Our reaction to the events in Pittsburgh began with mourning for the victims. From mourning we moved to the legitimate fear that comes from living in a nation where easily procured weapons of mass death terrorize people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people and—as always—Jews.

19 Dec

2018 November-December, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, 3 vols. by Robert Alter

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Gary A. Rendsburg

January 2, 2022

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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, 3 vols. by Robert Alter W. W. Norton 2018, 3500 pp, $125 When I first learned that Robert Alter had completed the...

16 Oct

2018 September-October, Religion

The Weird and Wondrous World of Jews and Magic

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Marilyn Cooper

January 2, 2022

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The first time I came face-to-face with Jewish magic was when I moved to Israel in my early 20s. It was the fall of 1995...

12 Sep

2018 September-October, Ask the Rabbis, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Religion

Ask The Rabbis | What Sins Should We Atone For In Our Use of Social Media?

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Moment

September 23, 2024

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“Do we gossip? Do we repost stories about friends, family or colleagues that ought not be repeated? Do we believe everything we read?”

22 Mar

2018 March/April, Ask the Rabbis, Religion

Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?

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Moment

August 14, 2019

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Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that know You not, and upon the families that call not on Your name; for they have devoured...

15 Mar

2018 March/April, Book Review, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

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Steven Weitzman

October 8, 2020

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A History of Judaism Martin Goodman Princeton University Press 2018, 656 pp, $28.08 Surveys of religious literacy show that, as a group, American Jews do not know very much...

04 Apr

Latest

Omar Meets Omer

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Sala Levin

April 4, 2013

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Today, there's more proof that The Wire--the obscure HBO series about Baltimore's drug dealers, cops, newspaper reporters that one day will get a lot of...