This Years Tisha b’Av Fast: The Rotem Conversion [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] Andy Sacks writes about the new Israeli siddur (Hebrew, translated) put out by the Masorti movement: But it is one new Siddur that is creating a stir here in Israel. The Masorti Movement has just, together with Yediot Books, published V’Ani Tefilati: Siddur Yisraeli. One thousand radio spots are being broadcast to draw the attention of [...] Current Events in Israel, from article, blog 1, 2 Sussman's destroyed laptop. Toward the beginning of the search an officer began clicking through the photos on my camera. She froze on a picture of graffiti, which read “Fuck” scrawled next to the Jewish star of David. “Why do you have this picture?” She asked me rather [...] Israel: In the Beginning of a Love Affair Between a Land and a People One fact that has been repeatedly denied by Mr. Ahmadinejad, for example, is that the Jewish people have had a relationship with the land of Israel for thousands of years. …Why then, asks Rashi, does the Torah begin with [...] Jay Michelson has stirred up a bit of a storm with his article in the Forward, How I’m Losing My Love For Israel, in which he writes: First, I admit, it has become simply exhausting to maintain the ambivalence, the hugging and the wrestling, the endless fence sitting. My love of Israel has turned into a [...] “Members of the Land of Israel Faithful movement have come up with a new way to fight a proposed building freeze in Judea and Samaria. The movement is asking residents of the area to build the traditional temporary Sukkot dwellings – and to leave them up long after the holiday is over.” From [...] | ||||
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