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Is circumcision a requirement for conversion?

\”I don\’t understand the fuss people make,\” he said. \”In Africa now they\’re circumcising thousands of adult men for AIDS prevention. If it were such a big deal, don\’t you think word would get around and the men would stop doing it?\”

A grown-up children’s story

Noach invokes juvenile fascination upon reading the pshat. But we are not children. And underneath whimsical images and happy songs exists grown-up information to which we must attend if we have any hope for hearing youthful voices in our future.

Go West, young Torah-observant Jews!

The wait is finally over for members of Young Israel of Century City, who were eagerly anticipating the theme of the annual program \”brochure,\” which was kept secret until its publication last week. It\’s … Old West

Scheduled Relaxation

As the years have gone by, I realize I\’d just as soon be alone than continue to go through cycles of head-spinning effort with someone in exchange for a couple of moments of grace. So I don\’t do that anymore. And though this kind of spiritual honesty has created an ease in my nervous system (and a welcome death to that horrible intimate uncertainty of giving myself where it\’s not appreciated), I have to stop and wonder, have I become overworked and underplayed?

Jewish Studies Bug Bites Parents, Too

Eighteen months ago, when Lenard Cohen\’s 4-year-old daughter was enrolled in the family\’s congregational preschool, the Philadelphia-area father of three decided to go back to school himself.

Intense Me’ah Gets High Marks

Me\’ah, which began in 1994 with 50 students in greater Boston, is also now being offered in Baltimore, Cleveland, Rhode Island, Florida, New Jersey and New York.

The Silver-Haired Bar Mitzvah Boy

My husband was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah in 2001, more or less on the sixth anniversary of his conversion to Judaism. People started asking Spencer when he was going to have a bar mitzvah when his hair was barely dry from the mikvah.

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