His solution is essentially thus: If the Orthodox get free access to the kotel at all hours, so should the non-Orthodox, at their own [...]
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I’m sure this has been addressed by someone at some point, but if one lives in a doorman building, can one’s doorman be Jewish and on still work on Shabbat or Yom [...] Women of the Wall is not and has not been an egalitarian group in any way. Nofrat and Anat haven’t been arrested/questioned because of egalitarian services in the gender-separated area, but for practicing an authentic Jewish [...] Simply put, our goal is to obtain the freedom to pray and to do everything that is halachically permitted for women on the women’s side of the mechitza. This includes reciting prayers together that do not require a minyan, and, yes, most of all, it includes reading from the Torah. (Though it has been many [...] Jewish Screenwriter Pens ‘Kosher’ Vampires for ‘Twilight’ Vampires aren’t very Jewish,” Rosenberg says. “The most basic thing about them is that they are born out of Christian mythology.” Nevertheless, she is quick to point out that Meyer, a devout Mormon, has created her own vampire mythology, devoid of religious connotation, absent the Christian symbolism of crosses [...] Rabbi Michael Siegel has been a leading advocate for improving the treatment of workers in kosher food facilities. As the founding co-chair of the Hekhsher Tzedek program, Siegel was behind the release last month of detailed standards on how kosher companies should properly compensate their employees. Soon after the release of those standards, though, Siegel [...] This year, 5770, the first day of Sukkot fell on Shabbat. Present day halakha (Jewish practice) is not to wave the lulav and Etrog on Shabbat. When reading the Torah portion in services, I noticed that the Torah was pretty definite about the requirement to wave the lulav and Etrog on the first [...] I usually associate Empire Kosher with chicken, and more recently with one of the brands that I’ve heard of still in stores after Agriprocessors was shut down. They were profiled in an interesting article in the Forward: Empire Strikes Back. The article focuses on three things: The success and growth of Empire Kosher under CEO Greg Rosenbaum A Conservative synagogue has the policy that in a pressing need, when a mourner is present and is saying kaddish, that a quorum of 7 is sufficient. I heard of this policy from an employee at morning minyan and thought to research it. I first found an Ask the Rabbi that said that there is in [...] If [a Jew] buys [household] utensils from a non-Jew he should immerse [in water] that which it is customary to immerse, he should scald [that which it is customary] to scald and he should heat in fire [that which it is customary] to heat in fire. Spits and racks are to be heated in fire; [...] | ||||
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