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December 21, 2007
Reform Jews must refashion Shabbat
Communal leaders outside of the synagogue love to talk the language of corporate strategy. They engage in endless debates on the latest demographic study. They plan elaborate conferences and demand new ideas. But sometimes we don\’t need new ideas; we need old ideas. We need less corporate planning and more text and tradition, less strategic thinking and more mitzvot, less demographic data and more Shabbat. Because we know in our hearts that in the absence of Shabbat, Judaism withers.
It’s time to act on Saudis’ support of terror
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was stunned at the hostile reception he received during a recent visit to London. It seems our British friends are much more attuned than we are to the nefarious role the Saudis continue to play in financing and fomenting terror.
Torah that moves
This is especially true for Jews who study biblical texts. Over the millennia, Jews have never stopped dissecting and debating the multiple layers of meanings of the written and oral Torah to arrive at deeper truths.\n\nThe vision of a chevruta — two Jews, sitting across from each other, arguing over minute details — is an icon of the Jewish intellectual experience. There is one thing, however, that is rarely challenged or debated: the sitting position.
A different taste
The occasion was not a party, but rather a \”Taste of Limmud,\” a precursor to something called LimmudLA. The Presidents\’ Day weekend conference will be volunteer-led, and organizers expect it to bring together hundreds of local Jews of all denominations for three days of conversation and learning.
The cultivator
He saved a stub from Dec. 24.
I know this because I saw it on his desk.
After we\’d broken up; when we shouldn\’t have been talking, and when I certainly shouldn\’t have been in his home.
Virgins welcome at ‘Hebrew Horror’ night
Inspired by this week\’s Jewish pastime of movies and Chinese food, the Los Angeles \”Rocky Horror Picture Show\” cast Sins o\’ the Flesh is hosting an inaugural Jewish-themed send-up of the midnight cult classic at the Landmark Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 22.
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