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A Historic Update

As some of you may know, Israel has agreed to start paying some Reform and Conservative rabbis, just like they do for the Orthodox. The first recipient of this is a female Reform rabbi – a first on...

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Should We Roll Back the Reform in Reform?

This is an article I submitted to blogs.rj.org, the blog of the Union for Reform Judaism. I do not know whether it will be accepted for publication or not, but I wanted to share it with you. Whenever...

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A quote and a link

“Jewish memory was never meant to be frozen or finished. Jews don’t live in history. We live in memory—in remembrances that are authentically rooted in tradition, but in each generation, evoked in new...

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Rabbi Amar – Chief Sephardic Rabbi in Israel

Amar is getting a lot of press lately in regards to his attempts to keep Reform and Conservative Jews from being treated equally by the government of Israel. He organized a meeting to FOIL THE...

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Difference Feminism

Recently, I have come across the idea of “difference feminism”. I came across it in the context of Orthodox Judaism, but apparently it has its roots in Catholicism. Now, at first thought, you might say...

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Germany and Circumcision

As some of you know, a court in Cologne, Germany has ruled that circumcision violates a child’s fundamental right to be protected from bodily harm. Of course, it can’t be forgotten that these are the...

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Tisha B’av

The 9th day of Av is traditionally a day of mourning in the Jewish faith. I will not mourn for the birth of modern Judaism. I have no desire to return to the days of animal sacrifice as some of our...

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From Mac OS X to OpenSuSe Linux

Many of you that know me know that I have a 24 inch imac. It was bought in 2006 and served me well. However, there are a few factors that have me going back to Linux – which I ran for about 10-12 years...

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Sorry for the downtime

I got the $100 PC and, not long after, discovered the all-in-ones with touchscreens. I fell in love with them, sold my PC and I now have a nice Gateway on the way: 3.3 GHz core i3, 1 TB hard drive, 23...

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The Newtown Massacre

I’m going to keep this brief. A lot has been said about this tragedy and nothing I can say will do justice to what has happened. I will keep my comments to a few points. 1. This was not a mental health...

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Article –“Israel’s Jihad is Mine”

Everyone knows that Hamas uses children and other innocent civilians as human shields – trying to put them into harm’s way so any attempt by Israel to stop attacks against THEIR civilians also kills...

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Judaism – a jewel through the ages

Yesterday, I sat in synagogue for a B’nei Mitzvah – the plural of Bar/Bat Mitzvah. B’nei means children. Bar means son of. Bat means daughter of. Mitzvah means commandment. So, it means either child of...

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Judaism and the Occult

I found a wonderful article on Judaism and the Occult and it can be found here. The article goes into some detail about how Judaism influenced and really made Occultism as we know it. Of course,...

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OpenSuse Linux 12.3

Something a little different than normal: me showing off OpenSuse Linux 12.3. Watch it on YouTube in HD HERE

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Tim Tebow – Pride Comes Before a Fall

It might seem weird for a Jew to be commenting on Tebow, but it’s not if you know me well. I don’t have a problem with Christians, but people who act anti-Christian in the name of Christianity is a pet...

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Email to Torah Study – Women of the Wall

PREFACE: My very early childhood was spent in a Pentecostal movement that was very much like the Charedi movement in Judaism. By the time I became a teenager, the movement had changed a lot, so it...

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Nazi artwork

I went to the Museum of Art today. I rather like the museum and usually am quite captivated by the Dutch and Italian paintings. However, this time there were some new pieces that really hit me. Down...

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Get Rid of Yom Kippur (a bit tongue in cheek)

I don’t like Yom Kippur. As a matter of fact, I dread it. That may come as a surprise to many who know how much I love Judaism. But, if I could get rid of anything, it would be Yom Kippur. Yes…you...

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The United States: the Promised Land for Jews

Yes, that headline was the sentiment of Reform Judaism 100 years ago, but no, it’s not one I actually agree with. While the United States is a great place where many of us were born, live, and will...

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Kids’ Media Player

After watching a child on a computer for a while, you recognize a failing in linux. Media players want to include everything and the kitchen sink. This makes them unwieldy for adults, but impossible...

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