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• Tal Ben-Shahar on cultivating happiness

  
  Velveteen Rabbi — Authority: 141
  We can always be happier; no person experiences perfect bliss at all times and has nothing more to which he can aspire. Therefore, rather than asking myself whether I am happy or not, a more helpful question is, "How can I become happier?" This question acknowledges the nature of happiness and the fact that its ...
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• JStandard: Do Angels Speak Aramaic?

  
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  My Dear Rabbi column (May 3) sparked an urgent letter to the editor at the Jewish Standard. I answered it. The Dear Rabbi Column, “ ...based on timeless Talmudic wisdom” (May 3), writes the following about the Kaddish: “Yet this prayer is especially apropos for a mourner because we believe that it is the ...
  1 week ago

• 2006: When Rabbi Aryeh Strikovsky ordained Aviva Ner-David

  
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  I wrote this seven years ago: On one level, I was overjoyed to read in the Jerusalem Post report (May 4, 2006) that a Jerusalem Orthodox rabbi Aryeh Strikovsky has ordained his woman student Aviva Ner-David as a rabbi saying that her "knowledge and mastery of Jewish law are remarkable." This was a breakthrough that ...
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• Is Stephen Hawking Jewish?

  
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  No, the famous scientist Stephen Hawking is not a Jew. He attended St. Albans, an independent Christian school, as a child. Hawking is a noted British theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He has written a new book in which he challenges the notion that God created the universe. According to the Guardian: ...
  2 weeks ago

• “New” versus “Groundbreaking”

  
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  post by Jessica The Times of Israel recently posted a beautiful article about the upcoming Maharat graduates (we posted the article to the RR facebook – it’s here, if you’re interested) . It takes the time to profile each of the graduates and talks a little about the opportunities they face. Plus, the nice ...
  3 weeks ago

• Florida Rabbi Becomes a Bar Mitzvah 47 Years Late

  
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  Rabbi Leonid Feldman celebrated his Bar Mitzvah last month in Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach, Florida, the synagogue where he is the spiritual leader. But next week hes turning 60. Why a Bar Mitzvah now? As Betty Nelander wrote in the Palm Beach Daily News : As a 13-year-old growing up in the Soviet ...
  4 weeks ago

• New essay in Zeek about moving beyond binaries

  
  Velveteen Rabbi — Authority: 141
  Im delighted to have an essay in Zeek once again. This essay owes a tremendous debt to Rabbi Irwin Kula and to the text study session in which he led my cohort of Rabbis Without Borders Fellows at our February gathering. The essay (like the text study session) looks at the Talmudic figure of Rabbi Meir as a ...
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• Inventing the Past: Michael Broyde and Morton Smith

  
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  The Jewish Channels Steven I. Weiss continued his outstanding investigative reporting with a new story on Rabbi Michael Broyde of Emory University, "Investigation Reveals Additional Questionable Identity With Connections to Broyde’s Scholarship". It now appears certain that Broyde invented letters by two imaginary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Daily April poem: a triolet

  
  Velveteen Rabbi — Authority: 141
  NIGHTLIFE TRIOLET Above the city, rabbis talk laughing in a rooftop bar. I lost my scarf, our crosstown walk -- above the city rabbis talk of love and colleagues, get a lock on each others guiding stars. Above the city, rabbis talk laughing in a rooftop bar.     This triolet (written to a NaPoWriMo prompt ) ...
  4 weeks ago

• Truth from multiplicity: Rabbis Without Borders text study

  
  Velveteen Rabbi — Authority: 141
  For the building is constructed from various parts, and the truth of the light of the world will be built from various dimensions, from various approaches, for these and those are the words of the living God... It is the precisely the multiplicity of opinions which derive from variegated souls and backgrounds which ...
  4 weeks ago

• Leib Tropper is trying to clear his name

  
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  Rabbi Leib Tropper is back and he’s frummer than ever, if I hadn’t known that he tried to get a woman who was converting through him to have sex with him and his wife, I would have thought that Leib Tropper was just some random frummy looking dude trying to gain a rapid online presence. Someone sent me his blog ...
  4 weeks ago

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