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The Unhappiest Day of the Year
| Tisha b’Av commemorates the worst day in Jewish history. In 70 CE, the Roman legions besieging Jerusalem smashed through the Jewish defense lines, reached the Temple and set it on fire.
The historian Josephus wrote: “One would have th |
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Abegg Dead Sea Scholar
| Back in the first century BCE, there was no Hebrew Bible. Or not a Tanach as we understand the term.
There were sacred scriptures. But the list of books that were considered scripture varied between different groups of Jews in that pe |
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Local Rabbi Writes Machzor, Study Guide and Talmud Musical
| The souls of young people can soar as they connect with God through worship. That's what leaders in the Reform movement believed when they began the Children's Liturgy Project a decade ago. Young people needed age appropriate texts and illustrations |
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Group Builds Grassroots Black-Jewish Coalition
| Janice Landweber grew up Black and Jewish in the 1960s. The daughter of biracial parents, her family was very active in the civil rights movement. For days at a time, she would stay with movement families because her parents were in jail for marching |
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Aliyah
| Among this year's celebrations of the 350th anniversary of Jews in America, one fact has gone largely unnoticed: we are no longer the world's biggest Jewish community.
At some point in late 2003, Israel became home of the world's large |
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Jewish Humor: Did You Hear the One About…
| There are two traditional ways of looking at the universe: tragedy and comedy.
The ancient Greeks favored tragedy. And we haven’t had a conversation with Plato in years. The Jewish outlook favored comedy. It comes out of our religious |
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Helen Howard (Nov. 26, 1925-May 3, 2006)
| I have a black and white photo of my mom taken in 1964. It's winter. She's wearing a fur coat and she's carrying a sign that says "Save Soviet Jewry".
A photograph is about outward appearances.
My mom is in front of the |
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Israeli Nurses Compare Practices In US and Back Home
| The nursing shortage is a world-wide phenomenon. The shortage of registered nurses in the US is likely to worsen in the next decade as young people leave the field to go into other professions which offer more pay and better working conditions. The a |
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How To Live a Religious Life
| You can take off that red string bracelet with the stones collected from the burial cave of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai, blessed by a Kabbalist Cohen. It’s not going to protect you against the evil eye. That’s not Kabbalah. Nor is it likely to bring you |
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Houston Congregational Teacher Wins National Award
| School’s in. And although the first- and second-graders in Congregation Beth Yeshurun’s day school may not be aware, they are attending classes with an award-winning teacher.
Judy Maislos received one of the 2006 Grinspoon-Ste |
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The Legacy of Cordoba In Houston
| Houston will not be mistaken for being a great Sephardic Jewish center like Amsterdam or Leghorn were. But located in Houston, at an unimposing Fondren Southwest strip mall, is Congregacion Ess Hayim, a year-old Spanish-Portuguese congregation. Ess H |
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Houston Artist's Work Now Housed in Vatican
| In May 1944, Alice Lok Cahana arrived at Auschwitz with her family in a cattle car. As she stood among a group of mothers and children, the camp physician Dr. Joseph Mengele came up to her and asked, “Haben sie kinder (Do you have children?)”. Cahana |
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Before You Marry Consider This...
| Love doesn’t conquer all. In fact, love won’t keep you together once the honeymoon is over. So if you’re thinking of getting married, consider something that will lead to a cohesive relationship: a Marriage 101 class.
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Keeping Kosher #2 - What It Used to Be Like in Houston
| Karen Rosenblatt has been keeping kosher in Houston since 1975. Three decades ago, keeping kosher was much more difficult than it is now, she says.
“We had one kosher meat market, Goodman’s, on Buffalo Speedway near South Main, |
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Houstonian Fulfills Dream to Become Pulpit Rabbi
| On August 1, 2004, Houstonian Debbie Israel Dubin sat in Ben Gurion Airport awaiting a call. Although it was her birthday, Dubin wasn’t expecting a call on her cell phone. The call she contemplated spoke to a much deeper need in her life.
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New Siddur Isn’t Taking Houston Reform Community By Storm
| From its beginning in 1985, the goal in creating a new Reform siddur (prayer book) was the idea that Reform Jews hold diverse beliefs. Thus, any new Reform siddur would have to respond to the movement’s diversity and invite full participation without |
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Knot To Worry: The ABC's of Tallit Cleaning
| Mr. Goldberg needs his tallit (prayer shawl) cleaned. So he sends it to the neighborhood dry cleaner, which happens to be owned by a Chinese family. They tell him to come back in three days. When he returns, they give him the bill, which comes to $50 |
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Orthodox Urged to Broaden the Conversation
| The 2007 American Jewish Committee (AJC) Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion released early in March made official what many in the community informally have observed: the differences between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox are widening. &nbs |
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Taking Steps At Meyerland Minyan to Deepen the Service
| Historically, most new synagogues are born as a result of demographic changes in a community. Sometimes a new congregation forms because of a faction split. Members of the Meyerland Minyan started their shul in 2001 because they wanted to walk to ser |
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame--On Line, That Is
| Statistics evaluate performance. Statistics like batting average have been central to evaluating baseball performance since the game’s invention. Then came computers. They generated new, more powerful ways to crunch numbers and produce statistics. Th |
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It's Better Than An Israeli Jukebox And It's Now In Houston
| It’s been 17 years since Houston had a Jewish music radio program. The long drought will be over on Sunday, July 6 when “The Jewish Show of Houston” premiers at 4 PM on KNTH, 1070 AM. Shawn Daniel (aka DJ Shahar) will be playing music from Israel as |
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Jewish Factionalism: Nothing New Under the Sun
| One of the traditional lessons of Tisha B’Av is that the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE because of sinat chinam (baseless hatred) and factionalism. However, factions don’t come into existence spontaneously said Rabbi Dov Nimchinsky, |
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Ary Stillman: An Artists Life of Choosing the Less Secure Path
| History is harsh to painters. In certain periods of art history, a few celebrity painters get the notoriety either because their art is appealing or their lives are intriguing. Consider the abstract expressionists, for example. The names Jackson Poll |
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A Burial But Not An Obituary
| On a sunny October 19 morning, some 300 people gathered at Beth Yeshurun Post Oak Cemetery to bury a book. The burial, accompanied by a funeral service, was to honor a Sefer Torah from Poland. The Torah scroll, estimated to be 100 years ol |
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Diaries of Destruction
| By the winter of 1940, the majority of European Jewry was living in ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Nazis began launching the second phase of their war against the Jews.
“There came a point at which many of the Jews in the ghettos |
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JSU Seeks to Connct Jewish Students
| Incorporating some Judaism into the non-Jewish high school day. That’s the goal of the Jewish Student Union (JSU), a national Jewish organization for teens attending public high schools.
Active in some 200 high schools across the count |
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Youth Programs In Jeopardy After Young Judaea Layoff
| The oldest Zionist youth movement in the United States has shut down its local year-around program. Young Judaea (YJ) laid off two Houston staff members and one in Austin as part of a January 13 move that terminated 25-people nationally.
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Finding Leo Zeitlin
| Paula Eisenstein Baker is no detective. But the cellist and adjunct instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, tracked down a nearly forgotten Jewish composer, Leo Zeitlin and, in the process, greatly expanded the |
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Volunteers Don't Take A Daily Hot Meal for Granted
| This is the menu for the kosher Shabbat (Friday night) meal: chicken noodle soup, eight ounces; baked chicken, six ounces; steamed broccoli, one-half cup; mashed potatoes, one cup; challah, one slice; fresh grapes, four ounces. Meat and vegetables ar |
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New Koren Prayerbook Represents
| Walk into any Orthodox shul in America. Pick up a prayer book. Chances are it will be an ArtScroll Siddur.
Since it was first published in Brooklyn in 1984, the ArtScroll Siddur has become the liturgical benchmark for most of the Ameri |
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The Everyday Holiness of Raising Kids
| Becoming a parent is challenging. There’s an ideal, fostered by society: mom and dad should be knowledgeable, patient and respond perfectly to baby’s needs. And if you miss doing a perfect job, you’ve failed in some way. That’s parenting with guilt, |
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In the Afterlife, We Expand Into What We Really Were
| Call him a “Possibilian”. Nine months ago, the word didn’t exist. Then, during an NPR interview, Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist David Eagleman used the term to describe the space between atheists on the one side and the very rel |
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Two Questions: Jonathan Fass
| Director of the JCC’s Center for Jewish Living and Learning (CJLL) Jonathan Fass will offer a class on Israeli photographer Zion Ozeri for four Mondays beginning on March 1 at 11 A. M. Fass’ class is one of 12 CJLL spring adult education classes. For |
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Unexpected Images in Medieval Jewish/Christian Relations
| Traditionally, we think medieval Jewish-Christian relations can be summed up simply: Christians constantly attacked, plundered and expelled Jews. And we were always the victims, without allies.
However, a Rice University historian disp |
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Baytown's K'Nesseth Israel: The Little Congregation That Could
| After World War II, in small towns throughout the South, the sons and daughters of the Jewish communities left for college and the big cities. There was no one left to go into the family business. Jewish life dwindled. And the synagogue would go up f |
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Two Degrees of Separation
| Despite a strong connection between Diaspora Jewry and Israel, only 35% of American Jews have actually ever visited Israel.
That statistic intrigues Jewish Federation of Greater Houston President Lee Wunsch and Beth Yeshurun Senior Rab |
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