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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: Being a Straight Ally
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Being a Straight Ally. This week, we have been bombarded by injustices surrounding the LGBTQQI community. Multiple suicides of young adults who were bullied and outcast because of their personal identity. To help prevent this from happening again, celebrities have been recording messages. Are asking us to sign commitments. And then, The Jewish Standard (a Jewish newspaper in NJ) writes this:. A group of ra...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: Yisrael - My Struggle with G-d
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Sunday, October 11, 2009. Yisrael - My Struggle with G-d. But a definition of the collection of history, tradition, liturgy, values, holidays, celebrations and community that I believe so much in, then I would accept the idea. I get asked about "why pray? Why keep a level of kashrut. The answers: why pray - community and just in case. Things are grim in my foxhole. I am sitting at his bedside now. He has yet to regain consc...And l...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: Ramping Up
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Saturday, September 26, 2009. The days before Rosh HaShanah . everyone wishing me a Shanah Tovah. Asking, "So, are you ready for the holiday? Ummm No. Not really. Cooking for dinner-yes, ready for my guests. For the holidays, no. Never. High Holy Days, kinda not my thing. Sukkot-enjoy Sukkot. But ready for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Nope. As a Jewish educator, I know that there are rituals that some people perform during Elul.
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: October 2010
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Being a Straight Ally. This week, we have been bombarded by injustices surrounding the LGBTQQI community. Multiple suicides of young adults who were bullied and outcast because of their personal identity. To help prevent this from happening again, celebrities have been recording messages. Are asking us to sign commitments. And then, The Jewish Standard (a Jewish newspaper in NJ) writes this:. A group of ra...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: November 2009
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Sunday, November 29, 2009. Creating Rituals - Two. At the end of the first 30 days of mourning (a period called Shloshim), it us customary for a mourner to hold a Siyyum (a concluding ceremony) complete with a text study in memory of their loved one, a meal and prayer service. This signifies the transition into the next phase of mourning. Tzar Ba’alei Chayim – Ethical Treatment of Animals. Whether it is a bull,. A sheep or a goat.
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: May 2010
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Cross Posted to: Davar Acher. One of my personal Jewish outlets is participating in Limmud Southeast Atlanta. As you may know Limmud. Is an international organization that represents a cross-communal approach to Jewish learning. It began in 1980 in the UK and now has about 35 all over the world. Limmud gives me a phenomenal multi-generational community amid which I have made some of my closest friends in Atlan...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: February 2010
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Tuesday, February 9, 2010. So, in our attempt to evaluate how Jews should approach the day, we must first look at the historical account of Valentine's Day. [. Wwwpetalsnetwork.com/info/valentines.htm, www.homiliesbyemail.com/Special/Valentine/history.txt. It wasn't until a few hundred years later when Valentine's Day began to develop as we know it. At the time Christianity was beginning to take control of Europe. But what did we l...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: Elul Reflections 6-10:
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Saturday, August 28, 2010. Essay on Michael Berenbaum. Who is a prolific Holocaust expert said that he is "protecting Jewish memory." What do you do to protect Jewish memory? I think the easy answer to this is about being a Jewish educator, but I think it is more than. That While the collective Jewish memory is incredibly important, the familial Jewish. Photo Above Right: 13 of 34 members of 4th generation Goldman Family. I think t...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: March 2010
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Friday, March 26, 2010. There has been much discussion about the high cost of being involved in Jewish life . day school, congregation dues, JCC dues, summer camp, youth group conventions, fundraisers, b'nei mitzvah celebrations, Federation campaign, Israel trips . my check book hurts just thinking about it. But this has been talked about at great length by many of my colleagues. What I want to talk about is Pesach. During the 2007...
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together: July 2010
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Tu B'Av, T'shuvah and Tying it Together. Jewish Musings about daily life. Thursday, July 1, 2010. Originally posted on Davar Acher blog . Three weeks ago, I had 20" of my colon removed . and found myself in the third situation where I had to ask for help. Help from family, help from nurses (great nurses rock and are under-appreciated! So why is it that it takes serious - life threatening (whether for me or for a loved-one of mine) for me to be able to ask for help? So I offer up this blog as a Todah Rabah.
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