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Simple: A Jew is anyone who was born of a Jewish mother, or has undergone conversion to Judaism according to halachah (Jewish law). That’s the way it’s been since Biblical times and it’s also firmly established in the Code of Jewish Law. And mysterious: You’ll never hear of an atheist Protestant or a Catholic Muslim, but a Jewish ...
- Tzvi Freeman
It is not the observance of Torah's mitzvot (Divine "commandments") that makes him a Jew, but the commitment that the mitzvot represent. The Essence of a Transgression. This is the deeper significance of the axiom, "A Jew, although he has transgressed, is a Jew." The simple meaning of these words is that a Jew is still a Jew despite his ...
Mar 31, 2016 · Young Americans are moving away from traditional religious observance in large numbers, and Jews are no exception. Roughly a third of Jews born after 1980 think of their Judaism as a matter of ...
Jul 14, 2016 · This idea of equality is summed up in the tradition’s statement: “I call upon heaven and earth to witness for me that whether one is a non-Jew or Jew, or whether one is a man or a woman, or ...
Judaism as Civilizations: Belonging in Age of Multiple Identities. , a project of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. The survival–indeed, flourishing–of. Orthodox Judaism. is one of the many mind-bending surprises of contemporary Jewish life. In Israel, Orthodoxy has successfully managed to retain its hold on established Judaism and, in forms ...
- Yehudah Mirsky
He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and earned a PhD in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary where he was also a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and a BA from Harvard College. He has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the Top 50 Rabbis in America. Rabbi Tucker is also a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar and a ...
Apr 13, 2016 · First up is Esther, an Orthodox Jew who is “very normal, but you’d describe me as ‘ultra’ because of the way I look and because I don’t have a TV”: Jews are Jews by way of being born ...
