Finding Judaism in the great outdoors
June 3, 2008
Two rabbis are helping Jews find a path to Judaism off the beaten track. Each has written a new guidebook to take along on that hike
Sue Fishkoff
Student on track to become first black female rabbi
May 16, 2008
Alysa Stanton-Ogulnick isn\’t particularly interested in being a standard-bearer.
She\’s proud to be black, proud to be a woman and proud to be a 45-year-old single mother who raised her adopted child on her own.
Gender equity lags in Jewish organizations
April 18, 2008
It\’s been 45 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal to pay men more than women for the same job.
A spiritual boost in Simi
March 28, 2008
Three-dozen rabbis and cantors are sitting in silent meditation in a sun-filled room at the Brandeis-Bardin Campus at American Jewish University in Simi Valley.
They open their eyes and Rabbi Sheila Weinberg guides them in a mindfulness exercise.
Intermarriage reports urge understanding and openness
March 14, 2008
Three new scholarly reports on intermarriage argue for increasing Jewish educational opportunities, encouraging Jewish behaviors among both intermarried and inmarried Jews and opening the doors even further to intermarried couples and their children.
Jewish researchers dispute some Pew religion survey data
February 29, 2008
American Jews are adopting and discarding their Jewish identities with increasing rapidity in a country that is becoming less white and less Christian, according to a new study of religious affiliation in the United States.But just hours after the study\’s publication Monday, Jewish demographers already were disputing some of the findings on Jews, contending that the sample is too small to draw meaningful conclusions.
Program helps grandparents nurture interfaith grandkids
January 18, 2008
Bettina Kurowski is the chair of the 2008 fundraising campaign of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and active in her Conservative synagogue. She\’s also a grandmother of three young grandchildren. They give her great naches, or joy, she says, but she\’s also worried — the children\’s father is not Jewish, the kids are being raised in an interfaith home and Kurowski, for all her Jewish involvement, is not sure what role she should play in passing on the Jewish heritage that is so dear to her.
Ms. magazine’s ad rejection elicits strong response
January 18, 2008
The American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) is ramping up its protest against Ms. magazine\’s rejection of its pro-Israel advertisement. In a campaign launched Sunday, AJCongress urged people to write, call or e-mail the prominent feminist publication to \”register your complaint at their anti-Israel bias.\”
Eco-kashrut supporters turn attention to kosher meat
December 21, 2007
On Thanksgiving, New Yorker Linda Lantos didn\’t have to compromise her Jewish or ecological values: She served free-range, organic, nongenetically engineered turkey that was also kosher.
\”In the last few years, it\’s become important to me to find meat that\’s organic and kosher, and that\’s hard,\” said the 27-year-old chef and nutrition teacher, who has kept kosher since childhood.
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