judaism

Judaism is a way of life that challenges it's adherents to use their freewill to carry out Abraham's mission of bettering the world. Judaism insists that a person live very much in this world, and the Torah texts and the mass of rabbinic literature reflects this. So much of what they talk about is how to simply be a mentsch, take responsibility for yourself, and be kind and compassionate to others.

God gave Abraham trials that asked him to shake himself free of the world around him and take radical action that would set him apart as the ivri - the revolutionary - and at the same time make real, lasting change to the corrupt world around him. Picking up and leaving his childhood home and family estate, rejecting the pagan approaches to understanding and using nature, Abraham was building himself up to become a true leader of people, and the founder of Judaism.

Millions of words have been written about the application of the ancient wisdom of the Torah and the Talmud to modern challenges. The dynamism of Jewish scholarship and the proverbial stubbornness of the Jewish people have made Judaism remain as relevant today as it ever was.

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• Unusual Partners Study Divisive Jerusalem Site

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  Tourists visiting the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, to Muslims.
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• Dying Man’s Daily Journal – Will You Dance with me

  
  Dying mans daily journal — Authority: 127
  Today, I went for my regular check up at the heart failure clinic. I really can’t say enough good things about the wonderful doctors, nurses and staff there. All are so patient, kind and so very good at what they do. I do thank them all. Today I really go the special treatment. There was the usual review of my ...
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• Wiesel, NGO Monitor Board Member

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  I was just reading a Haaretz story about the orchestrated Israeli government campaign against Human Rights Watch in response to the latter’s support for the Goldstone Report.  The article noted that Elie Wiesel signed a letter to the Guardian which praised Robert Bernstein’s bitter, disjointed diatribe against ...
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• Jesus’ Death and the Temple in the Gospel of Mark

  
  The Theological Ramblings of an Anglican Ordinand — Authority: 407
  The Death of Jesus in the Gospel of MarkThe purpose of my last few months of research is to explore, within the narrative of the gospel of Mark, the link between Jesus’ death and the Temple.  This link is clearly to be seen at the surface level of the passion narratives where the  Temple and [...]
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• 400 Feared Dead in Cherry, Ill., Mine Disaster

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  An explosion and fire trapped 400 men yesterday at a coal mine near Cherry, Ill., about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, and mine officials fear that all may be dead.
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• A Year After a Lubavitcher Tragedy, Spiritual Refreshment in Brooklyn

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  Rabbi Moshe Klein, sitting at right, helped Rabbi Shimon Sreundlich inscribe a Torah scroll on Thursday at the Chabad-Lubavitch International Conference of Emissaries in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. About 4,000 Lubavitcher men from 75 countries were expected this weekend.
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• Face to faith

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  The Lubavitchs openness makes them the most visible part of the kosher world It all started with a hat and a beard, a white shirt and a dark suit. The moment the Lubavitch rabbi of Oxford swung his door open, I understood that his uniform was going to become a big part of my daily life at university. Six years ago ...
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• Vampires Aren’t Kosher

  
  chrisfarnsworth.com — Authority: 121
  My friend Mayrav’s rabbi explains why in this very smart piece at the Jewish Journal : Despite the mad and murderous blood libel, Jews abhor eating blood. The Bible is explicit in its prohibition against eating blood, and generations of salted meat are our culinary legacy. Jews overcook and oversalt. It is what ...
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• Searching for Rebekah

  
  Messianic Jewish Musings — Authority: 422
  Ah, the Rebekah story. Abraham has his servant put his hand under his thigh and swear (it wasn’t his thigh that the servant was to take hold of — get it?). Rashi has an interesting note about that if you look it up.The servant swears a solemn oath not to let Abraham’s son, Isaac, marry [...]
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• Just when you thought it was safe to talk to your friends about...

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 504
  random manishtana fact no 78: i worked in a comic book and videogame store for eight years. and im a proud dc boy. superman. bats. flash. justice league. yknow. see, i never got the marvel universe . actually, more to the point, i never got the deal with how the marvel universe reacted to mutants. everyone ...
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• The Dessert Holiday

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 424
  I am VERY honored to have the chance to join the Jew and the Carrot writing community! Thanks for taking a moment to read my first post, which originally appeared here .) - Leon *********************** Judaism divides the calendar into regular days,  (like Purim and Rosh Hashanah) and festivals (like Passover and ...
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• Romford scouts investigated over anti-Jewish chants

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Members of explorer troop shouted kill the Jews at veterans during remembrance parade A scout troop is being investigated by the police after its members shouted death threats and racist abuse at Jewish war veterans during a remembrance parade. Dressed in full uniform, the explorer scouts, who were taking part in ...
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• Dying Man’s Daily Journal – Living while dying

  
  Dying mans daily journal — Authority: 127
  A friend has asked me to share so thoughts on how to carry on living while knowing you are dying. This is not an easy thing for me to do. It causes me to pause and really think. It is also very complicated in that it will be different for each individual as thoughts, feeling and beliefs will differ even if only ...
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• My Judaism

  
  In the Pink — Authority: 522
  A Guest Post  by Vicki Boykis I had close to zero of my own Judaism until I was 17.  This was for two reasons. First,  I was born in Russia when it was still part of the Soviet Union, meaning my family’s Jewish identity had been stripped away by years of state-mandated atheism and  fear of discovery of ...
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• The community leadership we deserve | Antony Lerman

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Jewish leaders too often lose their moral compass over Israel, but we ourselves are to blame if we do not hold them to account There was something both homely and understatedly heroic about the Guardian front page photo of Angela Merkel, Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa taken during the celebrations marking 20 years ...
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• Jack Teitel, Jewish Terrorist, Doing God’s Work

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  Israel formally charged Jack Teitel with two murders, three attempted murders, and two bombings.  It has not yet charged him with other crimes in which he is believed to be implicated, murdering two policemen and aiding the killing spree at the Tel Aviv gay community center. I have heard no evidence that Jack Teitel ...
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• Kill Enemy Children: Jewish Edict

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 142
  Hundreds of children were killed in Israels war on Gaza earlier this year. By Khalid Amayreh * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Hundreds of children were killed in Israels war on Gaza earlier this year. OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, ...
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• Are Orthodox Jewish women rebelling?

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 504
  I went to an Orthodox Jewish wedding in Los Angeles and a woman read the ketubah. Whoa. She did it better than Id seen any other rabbi do it before (and Ive been to a lot of Jewish weddings). But some people couldnt handle it. Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky published an illuminating piece about those "some people" that everyone ...
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• Baby Names

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 504
  Ive already picked out my baby names. No, the babies havent actually been conceived yet, its something my sisters and I have been doing since we were little kids. We used to go through our baby names book and pick out names for our imaginary children. There was even a period where my dolls were all given Biblical ...
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• "Gabriels Vision" Watch, er, Dont Watch!

  
  Biblia Hebraica — Authority: 505
  Its been a while since I posted on the inscription known as Gabriels Vision or the Apocalypse of Gabriel. Thats because there really isnt anything new to say that hasnt already been said over and over and over about this inscription and Israel Knohls tendentious reading of it. However, that hasnt stopped ...
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