\” . . . How insulting to equate Sarah Palin with the women of Chabad. How many of these women would welcome pregnant Bristol Palin\’s boyfriend into their family when he calls himself a \’f—-in\’ redneck\’ and talks about how if anyone messes with him he\’ll \’kick their f—in\’ ass\’ . . . \”
Adat Chaverim is a small congregation of secular, Humanistic Jews, whose brochure proposes that \”reason rather than faith is the source of truth, and human intelligence and experience are capable of guiding our lives.\”
Within the calendar that constitutes the Jewish cathedral in time, no days are more saturated with the experience of human nature, and with experiments in human change, than the Days of Awe. This is when we are asked, paradoxically, both to steep in our powerlessness to escape our species\’ fate, and yet also to try out behaviors that can rescue us from our destinies.
The U\’netaneh Tokef prayer-poem (who shall live and who shall die) can be seen as ominous or beautiful, depending upon the prism of the interpreter. Rabbi Naomi Levy pointed out that the prayer was written by \”one dude\” and should not be seen as a divine writ.
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\”Our goal is that by the time you graduate college you know how to eat properly, you know how to put an exercise program together,\” Jashinsky said.
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