Judaism

nce he followed the Grateful Dead. Now he leads a flock that follows Hasidic Judaism. Rabbi and former Deadhead Dov Yonah Korn says he plans to harness the punk-rock energy of Manhattan's Bowery "in a Jewish way." Korn and his wife, who met at a concert, are starting a synagogue for New York University students. The New York Post says the Lubavitch (loo-BAH'-vihch) shul (shool) will be just a  

W. Gunther Plaut, 99, a rabbi whose vast, scholarly, and contemporary edition of the Torah helped define Reform Judaism in late-20th-century North America, died Wednesday in Toronto. His son, Rabbi Jonathan V. Plaut, said his father had been ill ...  

"Messer is not recognized by any major branch of Messianic Judaism and, under the standards of the UMJC and the MJAA, is not even considered part of our community, let alone a rabbi... We condemn Messer's flagrant disrespect of the Sefer Torah in this ...  

A prominent Orthodox rabbi in Toronto has condemned the latest book by celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and pronounced it is “forbidden” for anyone to buy or read it.In an open letter published on the Jewish news website The Algemeiner, Rabbi Immanuel Schochet denounced Boteach’s newest book, “Kosher Jesus,” as “heretical.”The book “poses a tremendous risk to the Jewish community,” wrote Schochet, an emeritus professor of philosophy and...  

Oprah Winfrey has discovered her inner Jewishness. Winfrey, who rarely does interviews, sat for a TV chat with a Hasidic rabbi on the day last fall she immersed herself in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods. The interview, produced by Oprah’s OWN network ...  

The Al Aqsa Heritage Foundation website featured photos Thursday of IDF soldiers touring the Temple Mount – and two photos the website says are of a Jewish man urinating on a wall within the Temple Mount compound. However, the website does not provide ...  

Bar and Bat Mitzvah listing published in the Jewish Ledger on Feb. 10, 2012. ARI KAUFMAN-FRANKEL, son of Jo Kaufman and Stewart Frankel, will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Saturday Feb. 11 at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel in New Haven. PHILLIP GITMAN ...  

What books/websites can I have my non-Jewish boyfriend read to teach him about what to expect at his first Passover seder?My non-Jewish boyfriend has been invited to this year's Passover seder at my parents' house. This is a Big Deal in my family. I was raised with Conservative Judaism, but kind of rebelled a bit on retaining anything I learned in Hebrew school, so I am woefully ignorant about a lot of Jewish things including, as it turns out...  

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The faces of young girls modeling Purim costumes in a toy store ad have been blurred in haredi Orthodox newspapers in Beit Shemesh. In response, consumers have been urged to boycott the toy store chain, Ynet reported.  

It would seem very few commenters are eager to relive that experience...and/or they've destroyed the evidence. :) Perhaps a contest for bar/bat mitzvah stories instead? Not Jewish, and don't have any, but maybe you'd get more takers.... eyrieowl  

The Jewish community is invited to Congregation B'nai Chaim next week to see guest Rabbi Moshe Halfron perform Shabbat services. At 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 and 9:30 a.m. Feb. 10th Rabbi Moshe Raphael Halfon will lead services. Halfon has been in the vanguard ...  

The Zionist Federation has rejected a move to oust Rabbi Danny Rich, the chief executive of Liberal Judaism, as one of its patrons. ZF joint vice-chairman Jonathan Hoffman tabled the resolution to remove him at a meeting of a national council last week.  

Well coming from a Holocaust denier I'm not sure whether he's being ironic or not. In either case, the Doha unity pledge is allowing both the Hamas Idiots and the Fatah Fools to speak with the same Nazi voice. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/152676#.TzkdiFUXr6S  

Surfside, FL – Attendees at The Aleph Institute’s Fifth Annual Military Training Conference this past weekend in Florida enjoyed a five day event that included not only divrei Torah, Shabbos meals, training sessions and an opportunity to spend time with other Jewish military personnel, but also words of inspiration from a high ranking government official. [...]  

New York, NY – City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has left for a trip to Israel with ten Council members. The trip is being paid for the by Jewish Community Relations Council and does not include taxpayer funds, according to the speaker’s office. Quinn, who is planning to run for mayor in 2013, has taken [...]