Tag Archives: jewish identity

Anybody Going To The Taste Of Limmud Thursday Night In Manhattan Beach?

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Luke Ford

I want to get a ride. According to the email: The event will start at 730pm, and our current list of confirmed presenters is: Steven Cohen – Patterns of Jewish Identity Rick Muller – A crash course in Torah chanting … Continue reading →

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I’m A Sensual Semite

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Luke Ford

Menahem Wecker reviews a new book called Jews & Sex: Abrams opens his own study of the ways people have responded to Jewish involvement in pornography by critiquing Luke Ford, “a self-styled adult industry gossip-monger.” Abrams argues that Ford, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged adult industry, anti semites, critiquing, dirty industries, gossip monger, industry gossip, jewish education, jewish identity, jewish involvement, jewish population, luke ford, moral leader, porn industry, porn sites, religious terms, rsquo, secular jews, semite, subheading, wecker | Comments Off

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Luke Ford

Sunday morning, I catch a screening at the Laemmle theater in Santa Monica. In it, a professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University in Lithuania, an absolute bear of a man, talks about immigrant Jews wanting their children to speak English … Continue reading →

Posted in Hollywood | Tagged 1980s, Artscroll, bar ilan, civilization, dead today, immigrant jews, jewish culture, jewish expression, jewish history, jewish holiday, jewish identity, jewish law, ladino, laemmle theater, lingua franca, love story, man talks, privilege, radical politics, roger wolfson, rudoff, Santa Monica, sixty years, Torah, tv writer, vilnius university, western wall, yiddish accent, yiddish culture, yiddish theater | Comments Off

Sephardim are rational — Ashkenazim, not so much

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Luke Ford

Dennis Wilen writes: From an essay in Zeek — A Sephardic Answer to Modern Jewish Identity By David Rabeeya: " . . . Ashkenazic authorities traditionally have placed a “fence around the Torah,” enlarging restrictions in order to be sure … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashkenazim, Sephardim | Tagged ashkenazic, Ashkenazim, authorities, dennis wilen, fanaticism, fence, integrity, inventions, irrationality, jew, jewish identity, jewish law, latitude, pesach, quot, radicalism, religious leaders, sephardi jews, Sephardim, Torah | Comments Off

Proving You’re A Jew

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Luke Ford

Gershom Gorenberg writes for the NYT: One day last fall, a young Israeli woman named Sharon went with her fiancé to the Tel Aviv Rabbinate to register to marry. They are not religious, but there is no civil marriage in … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel | Tagged birth certificate, brown hair, chief rabbinate, civil marriage, gershom gorenberg, governm, government bureaucracy, government issue, israeli city, israeli combat units, israeli woman, issue id, jewish identity, jewish life, kibbutz, nyt, shoulder length, skepticism, small woman, tying the knot | Comments Off

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