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Seclusion, Intimacy, and Power: Taking the Laws of Yichud Seriously 19 Aug 2013 | 12:07 am
Introduction: Halakhic Insights from Outsiders I’m always intrigued when individuals or groups of people who are meticulously observant of some law system – particularly Halakhah – perceive themselv...
Soul Doctor brings Carlebach to Broadway 16 Aug 2013 | 05:33 am
Have you ever had the experience of introducing your high school friends to your new friends from college? That’s the best way to describe how I felt watching Soul Doctor, the new Broadway musical bas...
This is Not an Ulpan 15 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
While I deeply love learning Hebrew, ulpan often hurts my heart. I can’t help but bristle at prejudicial Israeli attitudes that go against the anti-oppression work that bring many of us there. Be they...
Why the teacher started crying in class today. 9 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
I’m not a regular attendee of the National Havurah Committee’s Summer Institute, but about ten years ago, when I was in rabbinical school, I attended my first NHI. I taught a class on psukei d’zimrah ...
Job: Israel Conversations Initiative Program Coordinator 8 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
I sure wish I lived in NY. Actually, I wish this was somewhere other than NY. But for someone out there who likes living in NY, this is a bahhhhgain. The ground-breaking Israel Conversations Initiati...
Since When did Jewish Education Become Everybody’s Punching Bag? 8 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
By Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman Just in time for back-to-school shopping and your first Hebrew school tuition ACH auto-withdrawal, two Jewish websites have let loose their bloggers to take a dump on trad...
Bite Their Tongue: Perhaps Unrestricted Free Speech Isn’t Such a Good Thing 31 Jul 2013 | 02:09 am
A guestpost from FoJS, Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman I, like most children of liberal Jewish parents born on the coasts, have long held the first amendment to the constitution to be sacrosanct: just barel...
Nu? Vat took you so long? 26 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
It makes so much sense it’s shocking it hasn’t happened previously, but New Yiddish Rep, a New York-based theatre company, is putting on Waiting For Godot in a new Yiddish translation (with English an...
Recommended Fiction: Burning Girls 20 Jul 2013 | 04:57 am
This week at speculative fiction publisher Tor Books’ website, an incredible novella appeared. Veronica Schanoes “Burning Girls” is ultimately a horror story, pitting the religious and canny women of ...
From Berlin on Tisha B’Av: Commemorating Racist Violence 17 Jul 2013 | 02:55 pm
Dashboard ‹ Jewschool — WordPress. A Jewish friend who used to live here once commented that, in Berlin, it is impossible to walk more than a few blocks without bumping into another Holocaust memoria...
