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Virtual Program Offered on Jewish and Islamic Law
13 Nov 2025 15:24 GMT
… The Greater Washington Coalition for Jewish Life (GWCJL) invites the … development of Islamic and Jewish Law in the modern era … teaches law courses, including Jewish and Islamic Law.
The … Greater Washington Coalition for Jewish Life (GWCJL) is based …
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I Can’t Eat That – But It’s Not My Fault: A Letter to My Non-Jewish Co-worker
12 Nov 2025 22:28 GMT
… me she had the rabbi she converted with convene … .
I disagree vehemently that Judaism is defined this way. … Jew holds those beliefs doesn’t determine their membership in the Jewish … are beholden. Viewing participation in Jewish law as “more” voluntary or …
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Jewish identity doesn’t need a disclaimer
12 Nov 2025 01:04 GMT
… the many “buts” Jews insert into their Jewish identity. Often, I … to halacha [traditional Jewish law].” Or simply, “I’m Jew-ish” — with … around kind of putting my Judaism into one of these five … t yet understand. She challenges Jews to reclaim our story from …
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Why Rabin’s murder matters
14 Nov 2025 03:14 GMT
… a gross distortion of Jewish law and was widely condemned … of these rabbis.
The views of one rabbi almost certainly … see was questionable interpretations of Jewish law. There had to be … ramifications.
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi-emeritus of Congregation Beth …
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Trencin: Jewish Synagogue Reconsecrated on Sunday after 77 Years
09 Nov 2025 21:37 GMT
… rabbis brought Torah scrolls into the synagogue, and according to Jewish law … its original significance. The rabbis then blessed the community. … chairwoman of the Jewish Religious Community in Trencin … Jewish shops, synagogues, and homes, and many Jews …
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Estonia's Jewish community commemorates Saaremaa victims at reburial ceremony
09 Nov 2025 11:43 GMT
… in any case, but in Judaism in particular this is significant … reburial is generally forbidden under Jewish law, given the dead should not … also attended by the Chief Rabbi of Estonia Shmuel Kot, … the Jew Kletski had been executed. There are no more Jews left …
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Azmi Bishara opens CAREP conference: European past and Palestine
13 Nov 2025 22:36 GMT
… claims Judaism and Jewish law are incompatible with Christian society, Jews are … was influenced by the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) while … . This entailed transforming Jews from scattered religious communities … character of the ghetto Jew – the object of …
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Opinion: The Power of a Billion Prayers
12 Nov 2025 23:16 GMT
… the entire community feels over Jews suffering in captivity: “Our … unusual if not unprecedented. Orthodox Jewish prayers change very rarely, … child in Samuel I. In Jewish law, Maimonides wrote in his … Palestinian suicide attacks. One rabbi I spoke to told me …
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Israel faces critical soldier shortage as Lebanon conflict looms and Gaza war drags on
12 Nov 2025 14:29 GMT
… voluntary enlistment. Recruiting diaspora Jews (600-700 annually from U … of Israel's Jewish population, have historically avoided … based on their interpretation of Jewish law, which exempts certain individuals … , a 52-year-old rabbi, insist "It…
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Remembering Joan Bieder, 83, who broke ground in journalism
12 Nov 2025 13:06 GMT
… Jewish community. In 2007 she wrote a book, “The Jews … the roots of Singaporean Jews from their Biblical and Baghdadi … to academic conferences and Jewish book fairs, particularly on … s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies. Rebecca …