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Tag Archives: jewish texts
This Week’s Torah Portion Is Parashat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. Facebook Fan Page. Watch the videos. This week we study Parashat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9). * When you read this … Continue reading
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Inculcating A Love Of Jewish Text
From Hirhurim: Jewish schools – in every generation, but especially in an era of openness and choices – have a crucial responsibility concurrent with their job of teaching Jewish literacy and texts. They have to also teach them to value, … Continue reading
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Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions
From the Village Voice: Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the night. But you should see his ride. When he’s not … Continue reading
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Hillel Publishes Gay Resource Guide
Rabbi Avi Shafran writes: Once upon a time, Jews who found Judaism cumbersome simply declared the Torah obsolete and went about their lives as they pleased. They weren’t inclined to intellectual contortions. Some “progressive” Jews today, though, choose instead to … Continue reading
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