10/11/2008
Jewish family makes peace with LDS baptism (Deseret Morning News)
Grandpa's arms always offered the warmest embrace. But he had an iron fist when it came to being Jewish. Having watched his parents shun his brother Al for marrying a non-Jew, Grandpa didn't marry my Christian grandmother until she had converted to Judaism.
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10/11/2008
The Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do? (Time Magazine)
Would Talmudic and Biblical prescriptions have prevented the current debacle? And can they show us a way out? Two rabbi-economists think so
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10/12/2008
Targeting war (Louisville Courier-Journal)
War makes for strong opinions. Flag-wavers may expect to have some and hear some at the just-opened exhibition "All's Fair in Art and War: Envisioning Conflict" at 21c Museum Hotel, Seventh and Main streets. It's a strong showing of how art can express profound emotions better than a lot of talk.
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10/10/2008
TORAH STUDY (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Saturday Mornings 10-11:30 A.M. Judaism by Choice Shabbat Morning Study Join Rabbi Marc at your neighborhood synagogue as he leads a traditional Shabbat discussion for those considering Judaism and those who have embraced Judaism.
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10/12/2008
Israeli yeshivas' approach is under fire (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
JERUSALEM - Yossi Ravitz, 22, hasn't had a class in math, science, civics or English since he was a boy. But he believes the rigor of his religious studies equips him for any subject he might need to tackle later in life.
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10/12/2008
This Week on WNET/SundayArts: Peter & the Wolf , San Francisco Ballet and More (Playbill Arts)
This week's edition of SundayArts - the weekly cultural series on New York's public television station Thirteen (WNET) - covers a wide array of the city's offerings and leads into the Great Performances presentation of Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf in stop-motion animation.
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10/12/2008
A 'new Jerusalem' in Southwest Florida (The News-Press)
Though they saw the world from inside-out, they changed it — at least in Southwest Florida.
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10/08/2008
Torah Judaism Asks for Jerusalem and Child Support (Israel National News)
(IsraelNN.com) United Torah Judaism (U.T.J.) MK Yaakov Litzman presented his party's list of requests to Kadima Tuesday in exchange for which it would join the forming government coalition at this time.
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10/10/2008
LEARNING BEYOND THE ‘EXIT RAMP’: Keeping students involved after the b’nai mitzvah (Cleveland Jewish News)
In the last several decades, Reform Judaism has eagerly embraced the bar and bat mitzvah as a revered rite of passage. But that embrace comes at a price, Rabbi Richard Chapin of Greenwich, Conn., worries. He fears b’nai mitzvah in the Reform movement are becoming “the exit ramp away from Judaism.”
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10/12/2008
Supreme Court rejects Oregon circumcision case (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
PORTLAND (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an Oregon dispute between a father who wants to circumcise his 13-year-old son against the wishes of the boy’s mother.
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