A look into the customs of Lag B’Omer Lag B'Omer also referred to as Lag BaOmer is a Jewish holiday that takes place on the thirty-third day of Omer. In the Hebrew language 'Lag' comes from letters...
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An enlightened approach to Jewish education begins by teaching not from the standpoint of religion In my last article, we set basic educational guidelines for how to approach the contemporary Jew....
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01 Mar 2019
Rabbi Michael Shevack
In this, the final article on my series “Re-JEW-venating the Jew”, I would like to propose something very bold. Actually, it is not very bold. It is simply the parade that, I believe,...
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08 Jan 2019 Rabbi Michael Shevack
The spiritual insights that will merge out of this algorithm can be systematically taught and cultured to bring about a new Jewish Enlightenment. In my last article, I daringly called for the establishment...
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It’s time to finish up our discussion of those core theo-logical confusions that must be corrected if we’re going to re-JEW-venate the contemporary Jew. For all of you who have been following...
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For one thousand years, Jews, if not many religious people, have been stuck in intellectual chaos. The chaos began innocently enough. There was some kind of ancestral memory of some kind...
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The authoritative limits of "democracy" under Transcendent Reason have been pushed to the breaking point: Whose Reason should I follow? For those Jews who believe as FACT the rabbinic "formula" - The whole...
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"Sandler we're coming for you." According to a Pew Reasearch Center survey, 9 in 10 Americans celebrate Christmas. Christmas songs can be heard on the radio and in shopping malls beginning in November....
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Adjustments made to fit Modern Life Orthodox Jews are restricted to a strict set of laws and ethics guided by the Torah. Over the years, some Orthodox Jews have adapted ways to go around their daily...
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Orthodox Jewish community in an uproar after Rabbi’s comments on homosexuality. forcing Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of UK, to intervene. While the acceptance of gay rights is something that...
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Profiles in Faith: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
