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The Battle Over Jewish Storytelling: A Hanukkah Conversation with Dr. Tanya White (Part 2)
11 Dec 2025 12:07 GMT
… a more systemic understanding of Rabbi Sacks’ thought, like the … of unreal renaissance of Judaism and Jewish values that is happening … our listeners. According to classical Jewish law, you cannot be like … . And so ultimately the rabbis who came a few centuries …
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What Is a Pidyon Haben? Inside the Jewish firstborn redemption ritual — and why it’s so rare
10 Dec 2025 18:02 GMT
… many Jews, and even non-Jews, are familiar with the Jewish ritual … according to more observant Jewish law.
If twin boys are … a firstborn daughter. Conservative Jews often practice pidyon haben, … though, many less observant Jews — including those involved in …
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Culture He used to think Jewish athletes were a punchline; now, he wants to help them get a proper paycheck By Noah Hirsch-Rechter 5 min read
09 Dec 2025 19:55 GMT
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“Say I’m a big Jewish law firm,” Moses told me, “and … . Moses has a Conservative rabbi for a father and used … , entirely appropriately, B-Y-Jew.) Levine had worked with Manischewitz … of American Judaism’s most enduring traditions: Rooting for Jews in sports …
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Is the Lev Tahor Cult Actually Jewish?
09 Dec 2025 03:17 GMT
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Is the Lev Tahor cult actually Jewish … Jewish. It’s Jewish because it’s made up of Jews, not because Judaism … against Jewish law can be “Jewish.” A Jewish baseball team. A Jewish … Educational Correspondent
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UC Berkeley to reinstate visiting Israeli professor after $60,000 discrimination lawsuit settlement
12 Dec 2025 19:26 GMT
… the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.She taught … Law for alleged discrimination against Jewish students and professors.Harris hopes …
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What to know about Hanukkah and how it's celebrated
12 Dec 2025 18:32 GMT
… Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews … to light the others.
Jews across the religious observance … commentary and teachings on Jewish law, customs and Scripture, … Jewish phenomenon, this gift-giving that’s part of Hanukkah,” Rabbi …
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What happened to the Ark of the Covenant? Here’s what we know.
12 Dec 2025 16:06 GMT
… Temple—the spiritual heart of Judaism—was plundered and burned. … Ark of the Covenant. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, an eyewitness … carried the Law of the Jews.’’ Amongst all the treasures, … 70, the teachers of Jewish law developed the concept of Shechinah …
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Hanukkah begins this weekend. What to know and how it’s celebrated
12 Dec 2025 14:40 GMT
… Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews … below advertisement
But the Jewish calendar, which is based … light into the darkness
Jews across the religious observance … of commentary and teachings on Jewish law, customs and Scripture, …
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What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated
12 Dec 2025 12:24 GMT
… transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights … Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews … light into the darkness
Jews across the religious observance … commentary and teachings on Jewish law, customs and Scripture, …
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The light that faces out, a Hanukkah reminder
12 Dec 2025 09:42 GMT
… every passerby on the street.
Jewish law doesn't leave … Two thousand years ago, the rabbis gave this obligation a name … about all the generations of Jews who maintained their distinctiveness … here.
Rabbi Benny Berlin is the rabbi of BACH Jewish Center in …