Editor –
Joel Katz
By Allison Kaplan Sommer
By Anat Hoffman
… The
wearing of tallit allows one to enclose oneself in a personal prayer space even
as one joins a minyan of Jews to pray communally. It is a tool, an aid. To
argue over who can and can not wear it also seems to be a form of idolatry. Why
is a rabbi questioning - not to mention judging - the use of something that
obviously deepens the prayer and strengthens the relationship these Jews have
with the One to whom we all pray?
Bakol
Ruben Gellar
Jerusalem
By Talia
Kaplan
By Anat
Hoffman
By Elyse Goldstein
We accept small victories, because we know the road
is long and hard, and we know how much we worked just for this “bone” from a
religious ministry that often spews venom and places all manner of obstacles
when it comes to their fellow, non-Orthodox Jews.
By Anshel
Pfeffer
… given
the Supreme Court's ruling against exemptions from military service, the
expiration of the Tal Law governing those exemptions, and the global recession,
it will be a lot harder, almost impossible, for the ultra-Orthodox community to
secure a political and economic umbrella for a system that allows an entire
generation of young men to sit and study.
The
yeshiva students will cease to be a statistic, and will have to undergo another
reckoning of their own.
Interview with Rabbi Dov
Lipman
Impoverished
Haredi neighborhoods, combined with high drop-out rates, create just the right
conditions for attacks like the lynch in Jerusalem, one social worker suggests.
See also: Tzohar booklet
(Hebrew) and Tzohar Facebook app:
By Rabbi
Ross Singer
By Daniel
Gordis
By Johanna
Kaplan
Would a
life in Israel rather than the American lives we embraced have been more likely
to make us—oh, say the foolish word—“happy”? Is that really the question?
Was it ever?
By Michael
C. Kotzin
What is
needed, I would posit, is the development and advancement of a Zionism for our
times, a Zionism that is at once authentic, honest, and contemporary.
By Matt
Abelson
After a year of study
in Israel and considerable introspection, an American rabbinical student has
come to the view that, although one must be open to the thoughts and opinions
of one's peers, it is necessary to express and defend one's own convictions
Why are
some of Israel’s richest men so close to some of the country’s most charismatic
rabbis?
Why do
they ask rabbis for business advice and why have they donated tens of millions
of shekels to the rabbis’ religious institutions? And whose money is this,
anyway?
Lopatin
originally had been slated to leave Chicago two years ago and immigrate to
Israel, where he was to lead a new
community in the Negev Desert comprised
in part of new immigrants from his congregation. But those plans were
canceled when Lopatin's young
daughter Cara became seriously ill and the family decided to stay in the United
States to avoid disrupting her treatment.
This
summer, large numbers of ultra-Orthodox families have taken to the trails up
north and are enjoying the accommodations and recreational activities suited to
their lifestyle that have sprung up around the country.
Editor –
Joel Katz
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