The Best Penis Jokes From Suburban Philly to Downtown Jerusalem
People ask me, “How Catholic were you?” Catholic enough to know I was going to hell. So I switched religions! -Yisrael Campbell in Circumcise Me I just saw Circumcise Me, the autobiographical one-man...
View ArticleRabbi Locks Door To Conversion, Keeps Key In His Pants
Haaretz reports, It is hard to imagine a more embarrassing situation in which to find an exclusive ultra-Orthodox organization – a group that was a standard-bearer in the fight against “breaches in the...
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Haredi in Haiti?
It sucks when Jews commit a hillul hashem and the news picks up on it. We all suffer, especially if they’re observant and it smacks of hypocrisy. But what about when it’s a poseur? Amidst the...
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JewsByChoice.org 2.0
Awhile back, I was introduced to a really great online resource for Jews by choice aptly named JewsByChoice.org. It was certainly a great website and I imagine a good resource for those who encountered...
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The vort: Balak – How (not) to be a mensch
(With apologies for such a belated vort) Looking back at Parashat Balak, one might be compelled to ask why exactly is this story included within the book of Numbers. In particular, the Moabite prophet...
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On Teshuva: Recognizing Jews who converted to Catholicism
L’kovod the aseres yamey tshuva, I present two interesting writers who converted from Judaism to Christianity. Let’s put it this way: They had to worry about a whole different kind of Tshuva: Jacobo...
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Rapper’s Delight is Judaism
Rapper Shyne at the Kotel (x-posted to KFAR) New York Times has a feature story on Diddy Sean Combs protege Shyne’s conversion to Orthodox Judaism. Interviewing him in Jerusalem, where he know lives,...
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Responses to my ‘conversion’: The bizarre, the brazen and the best
Crossposted to davidamwilensky.com In other news I'm topping the charts over at the Forward: The hed on my piece is 'What Would You Call Me?' Right. So I wrote this op-ed for the Forward about how I...
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Attracting Interfaith Families to the Conservative Movement Day Schools
Cross-posted. This was originally posted on the InterfaithFamily Network Blog. Last week, the Rabbinical Assembly (the rabbis’ guild for the Conservative movement), sent out a press release. Together...
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A New Conservative Approach to Conversion and Intermarriage
Crossposted from InterfaithFamily’s Network Blog. “I am worried that our present policy is internally conflicted and thus strategically self-defeating,” the rabbi said. “The idea of refusing to be...
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