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Workshop on Welcoming GLBT Jews

Rachel Pomerance

ATLANTA (JTA) – Let's say you get a memo from work, a Jewish organization, instructing you to leave home any part of your identity that doesn't conform to Jewish tradition. Sure, there's room for interpretation. But let's just say you're gay. Or lesbian. Or transsexual. And you're pretty sure you get the subtext. Then what? read the article...
Glossary of Terms

From Abba to Zohar

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A Novel Way to Teach Torah

by Jerome M. Segal

Judaism is the world’s oldest and strangest book club. Essentially we Jews have one book, and when we finish reading it, we turn back to the beginning and read it again, and again and again. We do this throughout our book club’s thousands and thousands of chapters, and we’ve been doing so for over 2,000 years.
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This Week in Jewish Women's History: Week of June 1

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in fact the autobiography of American expatriate modernist writer Gertrude Stein, was published. read more...

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