For those interested in Rabbi Gillman's lecture at Temple Emanu-El in
New York this coming Wednesday, here is a brief biographical sketch.
Rabbi Gillman, the Scholar-in-Residence at the Skirball Center for
Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El for 2007-20087, is
Professor of Jewish
Hi, Rachel,
Timbrels and Torahs shows a female rabbi (Rabbi Sue Elwell) at a Simchat
Hochmah Ceremony - a Rite of Passage ceremony to celebrate the wisdom of
elders:
http://www.timbrelsandtorahs.com/video/
Two films showing a female rabbi officiating at wedding ceremonies:
Congregation Emanu-El invites you to attend a lecture by Rabbi Neil
Gillman:entitled
Are Jews Responsible for the Whole World? Rabbi Gillman will discuss
the implied tensions in Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath. How do
we, as Jews, balance ritual demands with moral and social demands?
We've been looking for a text that compares the different
denominations of Judaism in a neutral way, outlining how each views,
for instance, Halakhah, Shabbat observance and gender issues without
making a case for one particular denomination. Is there anything out
there that you would
The Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium is an initiative of the chair of
Yiddish Studies
at the University of Amsterdam. Each year in the month December three speakers
deliver lectures on a topic related to research on Early and Modern
Yiddish. These
lectures are later published in a booklet, which is
Holocaust Archives Now Available At US Holocaust Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announced today that it
is ready to begin providing information to Holocaust survivors and
their families from the International Tracing Service (ITS) archive.
The archive, located in Bad
For those of you who subscribe to Comcast Cable...
Starting February 1st, Comcast will begin offering Shalom TV, a
mainstream Jewish cable television network covering the panorama of
Jewish life. Programs on the service reflect and address the
diversity and pluralism of the Jewish experience.
Due for release Feb 1, 2008. Please visit our Web site:
http://www.canaanhistory.com for previews and to pre-order your copies!
Canaan Tours of Jewish History #1
In the Beginning...
Maya and her younger brother Josh are regular children, trying to
live normal American lives while learning about
Dear Colleagues,
Our new library blog, Mekorot, is up and running. The blog features
reviews and discussion of new and classic sources in Jewish Studies,
bibliographical notes, and edifying tidbits.
We welcome your participation. Please feel free to pass this on.
Naomi M. Steinberger
Director
Has anyone been able to set up an account in their library to access
the Haaretz archive for their users? If you have please let me know.
Paul Howard Hamburg
Librarian for the Judaica Collection
438 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Tel: (510) 643-3353
Fax: (510)
And the Gate Opened: Women in the Rabbinate was put out in 2005 by JTS, to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of the oridnation of the first Conservative
woman rabbi.
Elizabeth Edelglass
Library Director
Department of Jewish Education of Greater New Haven
360 Amity Rd, Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203)
Elizabeth
Check out Hadassah Magazine. Special Issue: Jewish Diversity, March 1998
The whole issue is dedicated precisely to this question. On page 21
there's a great chart that compares Orthodox, Reconstruccionist,
Conservative, Reform with respect to God, tora, halaja, women,
cashrut, brit
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