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06 Oct
From the Newsletter, Jewish World, Latest

From the Newsletter | The Brilliant and Formidable Alice Shalvi

  • October 6, 2023
  • By author-avatar Eetta Prince-Gibson
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When she died on October 2 at age 96, Alice Shalvi left behind scores of mourning family members and friends in Israel and abroad, hundreds...

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26 Dec
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Wisdom Project | Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, 89

  • December 26, 2022
  • By author-avatar Noah Phillips
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“It took me a long time, but I learned how to love people,” says Rabbi Arthur Waskow. “I realized I had been not-soft, not-loving. I’d been sharp and smart, maybe even partly wise, but not loving.”

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Hazel Homer-Wambeam, the first Jewish Miss Wyoming, stands on stage wearing a pink gown and a crown a top her blonde curly hair. Her hand is over her mouth and she is holding a bouquet of roses.
14 Nov
Culture, Latest

First Jewish Miss Wyoming Heading to National Stage

  • November 14, 2022
  • By author-avatar Fallon Roth
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Hazel Homer-Wambeam hails from a small but mighty Jewish community in Laramie, Wyoming. With only 1,150 Jews in the whole Cowboy State and no synagogue...

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10 Jul
Religion, Summer Issue 2020

The Tradition of Respecting the Dead

  • April 17, 2022
  • By author-avatar Ellen Meltzer
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Through plagues, pandemics and wars, Jewish communities have found ways to adapt their traditional practices to the events of the time. Today, with the spread of COVID-19, many Jewish traditions have had to change.

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Sharing the Narrative: How Muslims & Jews Can Remember the Holocaust Together
21 Apr
Jewish World, Latest

Sharing the Narrative: How Muslims & Jews Can Remember the Holocaust Together

  • April 16, 2021
  • By author-avatar Ari Gordon
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In January, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), in partnership with the Muslim World League (MWL), brought 62 Muslims and 20 Jews from 28 countries together for a two-day interfaith mission in Poland.

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18 Jan
Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World, Winter Issue 2019

Ask The Rabbis | How Has Pittsburgh Changed Jewish Life for Your Community?

  • December 23, 2021
  • By author-avatar Moment
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Our reaction to the events in Pittsburgh began with mourning for the victims. From mourning we moved to the legitimate fear that comes from living in a nation where easily procured weapons of mass death terrorize people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people and—as always—Jews.

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19 Dec
2018 November-December, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, 3 vols. by Robert Alter

  • January 2, 2022
  • By author-avatar Gary A. Rendsburg
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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, 3 vols. by Robert Alter W. W. Norton 2018, 3500 pp, $125 When I first learned that Robert Alter had completed the...

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16 Oct
2018 September-October, Religion

The Weird and Wondrous World of Jews and Magic

  • January 2, 2022
  • By author-avatar Marilyn Cooper
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The first time I came face-to-face with Jewish magic was when I moved to Israel in my early 20s. It was the fall of 1995...

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12 Sep
2018 September-October, Ask the Rabbis, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Religion

Ask The Rabbis | What Sins Should We Atone For In Our Use of Social Media?

  • September 23, 2024
  • By author-avatar Moment
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“Do we gossip? Do we repost stories about friends, family or colleagues that ought not be repeated? Do we believe everything we read?”

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22 Mar
2018 March/April, Ask the Rabbis, Religion

Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?

  • August 14, 2019
  • By author-avatar Moment
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Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that know You not, and upon the families that call not on Your name; for they have devoured...

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A History of Judaism
15 Mar
2018 March/April, Book Review, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

  • October 8, 2020
  • By author-avatar Steven Weitzman
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A History of Judaism Martin Goodman Princeton University Press 2018, 656 pp, $28.08 Surveys of religious literacy show that, as a group, American Jews do not know very much...

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04 Apr
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Omar Meets Omer

  • April 4, 2013
  • By author-avatar Sala Levin
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Today, there's more proof that The Wire--the obscure HBO series about Baltimore's drug dealers, cops, newspaper reporters that one day will get a lot of...

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