Tuesday, March 6, 2012

(Purim) Power Suits

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This is from today's magazine online.A really interesting and current take on Purim. If you do not know the Hunger Games, you are not...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Mifgash Means Encounter, Part 1

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Six months ago, some of us thought holding a day long conference with the Fellows and Mentors of the Leadership Institute and a group of Is...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Culinary Queens of Yerucham put Sallah Shabbati to bed!

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Topol as Sallah Shabbati Many of us of a certain age (50ish and older) were shown the Israeli movie Sallah Shbbati - in youth group, or ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Can extremism ever be Kosher?

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Rabbi Marc Rosenstein writes the Galilee Diary in the Union for Reform Judaism's 10 Minutes of Torah e-mail and blog. Today's s...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Teaching Israel, Warts and All

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Peter Eckstein Friend and colleague Peter Eckstein posted this in the Jewish Educational Change Network before new year's. I think ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Torah and all Judaism are being threatened...by an 8 year old girl.
Really?

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I hope that you were as outraged as I was at the story of  Naama Margolese, aged 8. She and her family are olim to Israel. They are mode...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Thou shalt help those with special needs find their best place among us!

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Paul Kipnes is the rabbi at Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas, CA and my classmate at the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at HUC-JIR (Clas...