what she was learning. “The Talmud, for someone who has a diverse range of interests, is the most incredible text because it has everything in it,” Kurshan told JTA. “There’s nothing as exciting as the next page of Gemarah because it’s so discursive....
Jewish Light Staff Report
• Published August 1, 2012
Barb Raznick, Director of Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library Recommended books: “Room Enough for Daisy” by Debby Waldman and Rita Feutl — inspired by a Yiddish folktale, a young girl’s clever mom helps her realize that “less is more”...
By Rabbi Josef A. Davidson
• Published August 1, 2012
Many years ago when I was a hospital chaplain providing pastoral care to Jewish patients and residents of all of the local hospitals and nursing homes in the Denver area, I met a young woman in a locked psychiatric unit who had attempted suicide. I...
Congregation Temple Israel is partnering with the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) to introduce a new education program to St. Louis and the Midwest. The ISJL is a trans-denominational Jewish nonprofit that provides educational,...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom described a “global increase” in anti-Semitism and said the “rising tide of anti-Semitism” was among the key trends of last year. The executive summary of the report for...
LONDON — For Leslie Lyndon and the London Jewish community, it was a minor miracle.When Lyndon carried the Olympic torch through a north London neighborhood last week, it was more than representative of how Jewish Londoners have embraced the Olympic...
AYANOT, Israel -- Raised in a small and intimate Jewish community, Gal Herman, 14, has always been active in his local Reform youth group, attending services and participating in events. So it was an easy decision to spend summer at the Reform sleepaway...
By Rabbi Elizabeth Hersh
• Published July 25, 2012
I was on a mission to leave West County and drive a half-hour north to take one of the residents I see monthly outside. Mr. S loves sitting in the sun. In this unbearable heat, I try and arrive before it gets too hot. Last month I found him sitting in...
Amendment 2 is troubling On Tuesday, Aug. 7, as part of Missouri’s primary election, there will be a measure on the ballot known as Amendment 2. The ballot measure is called “Freedom to Pray in Public Places” but this title is misleading. Amendment...
By Charlotte Anthony, JTA
• Published July 24, 2012
As Colorado and the nation tried to absorb the tragic massacre in a suburban Denver movie theater, local synagogues conducted special prayers and the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado launched a response fund for the victims and their families. Early...
By Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA
• Published July 23, 2012
KRAKOW -- Thanks to a new iTunes app, new tourist routes and a towering replica of a destroyed synagogue, two “lost” Jewish cities in Europe are back on the map. One is the historic Jewish quarter of Bratislava, the Slovak capital, which survived...
BERLIN -- Say yes to circumcision. That’s the message of a petition that three German students have created at change.org. Directed toward the German government, the petition comes in light of a recent Cologne District Court ruling that found that non-medical...
