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jewish learning
So you’ve decided to become a rabbi…
Jewish Journal
March 14, 2014
I understand you’re thinking of becoming a rabbi. Mazel tov!
Danish, Swedish Jews hold first joint Limmud conference
Jewish Journal
March 14, 2013
About 160 Swedes and Danes attended the first inter-Scandinavian Limmud Jewish learning event.
Reimagining religious school
Jewish Journal
November 8, 2012
From my first interview at Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) in 2009, when the search committee declared, “We want revolution, not evolution!” to the visioning work I do with families today, my purpose at the congregation has been clear: to help families build deeper relationships to Jewish community, Jewish living and Jewish learning.
LimmudLA honors founders
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 12, 2012
LimmudLA honored its founders, Linda Fife and Shep Rosenman, in an evening of dinner, music and study on Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens. LimmudLA is the local outlet of an international model of interdisciplinary, interdenominational, no-boundaries Jewish conferences and events. Founded in the United Kingdom more than 30 years ago, Limmud now conducts 60 conferences in 30 countries, all of them almost entirely run by volunteers.
Jewry’s Myopic Plan
Bethamie Horowitz
September 16, 2004
The call for \”Jewish continuity\” sounded by American Jewish communal leaders more than a decade ago as an antidote to rising intermarriage rates and other signs of weakening identity has spawned a veritable industry aimed at making American Jews more Jewish. There has been an ever-more impressive array of endeavors to promote day schools, send kids to Israel, transform synagogues and bolster adult Jewish learning, to name just a few.
Ramah’s Happy,
Beverly Gray
August 14, 1997
During that first weekend, we found nourishmentfor all parts of our Jewish psyches. Religious services weretraditional but encouraged participation: I had my first-ever aliyahthere. The camp\’s weekend scholar-in-residence gave us grown-upsserious food for thought. The children had their own programs, but weall came together for a wild and wacky Saturday-night carnival and aSunday Maccabiah in which points were awarded for ruach (a favoriteRamah word, meaning \”spirit\”) as well as for athletic skill. And, ofcourse, some lazy hours were reserved for swimming, snoozing andschmoozing. After all this, it was hard to go home.
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