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Category Archives: Conversion
WP: In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation (4-23-23)
01:00 WP: In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/23/ralph-yarl-shooting-black-teens-fear/ 12:00 Jason Kessler steps away from political activism 22:00 The role of money in my life 26:00 Ethan Ralph update 30:00 Pittsburgh Jews Praised For … Continue reading
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An Amazonian Exodus
From the New York Review of Books: By the Israeli law of return, all Jews have the right to move to Israel and attain citizenship. The law was designed for those with at least one Jewish grandparent, and others have … Continue reading
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Shabbat On Christmas (12-26-21)
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When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel
Here are some highlights from this 2017 book: * To illuminate the core tensions that concern the protagonists of this book, it is instructive to begin with an alternative conversion policy route suggested in the early 2000s by a prominent … Continue reading
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How disaster made conversion harder – There is a link between Tishah b’Av and attitudes towards converts
David Aberbach, a professor of Jewish studies at McGill University, Montreal, writes: The unprecedented growth of Islam in the West, despite prejudice and hatred, contrasts with the demographic stagnation of the Jewish people – several million fewer now than in … Continue reading
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