As world health organizations move toward saving lives through re-introduction of circumcision in developing nations for AIDS prevention, a San Francisco ballot proposes a ban on circumcision under age 18. Since the matter compromises freedom of religion, Jews and Muslims are particularly closely monitoring the process.
While male converts report a negligible loss of sensation, the rite is valued for its spiritual impact. Its meaning is perhaps best expressed as a father once put it to his son at a ritual known to this reporter: 'Son, most men wrestle with this huge impulse to use muscle instead of mind over difficult matters. We circumcised you today because we love you and know that Judaism is the greatest of all treasures that we can pass on to you. Circumcision means to always remember that you are a Jew, and that to be a Jew means to think first, to check out your ethics before you act. Ezekiel said: 'In your blood live.' May this be the only blood that is ever shed in your name." Accordingly, when a Jewish man looks down, his commitment to a mitzvah-centered life, rather than a self-centered or sex-centered life is literally engraved in his flesh. Circumcision is a sign of how much value parent(s) place upon their son being Jewish. It is also part of how a male convert affirms his own "member"ship.
In the accompanying video dialogues with PJVoice Judaism Editor, Rabbi Goldie Milgram and Rabbi Bonnie Cohen discuss the issues around circumcision, Rabbi Cohen's training as a mohelet (mohel - a circumcision professional), her invention of a physical tool to teach the best methods of circumcision, and also ways to make the baby comfortable during the procedure.
I begin with a belated beracha: "Shehechiyanu v'kimanu lazman hazeh," giving thanks to God that I lived long enough to attend an AIPAC Policy Conference.
When in the long history of the Jewish people has it been possible for 13,000 Jews to gather together in peace, for our own purposes and to exercise our natural right as citizens to present our concerns to the representatives of our government? 2,000 years of Jewish lives would call this a miracle. It is the miracle of America and we should not take it for granted.
Before I share any other highlights from the conference, let me describe one in particular that could equally justify my saying the beracha. The opportunity to be in the same hall with Shimon Perez was unforgettable. To stand and applaud a man who stood next to David Ben-Gurion in the founding of the State of Israel, to re-live imaginatively the transformations that he has lived and from Polish refugee, to Kibbutznik, to soldier in the War of Independence, to political leader, Defense Minister, Foreign Minister, Prime Minister, architect of peace even when it fails, committed to strength for the purpose of achieving peace — I felt like I was given the opportunity to listen to George Washington, but a George Washington whose rabbi grandfather, at the train station when he left Poland for Palestine, whispered in his ear: "Be Jewish." He never saw his grandfather again. His grandfather was locked in his shtetl's synagogue with the rest of his congregation and the synagogue was burned to the ground. President Perez made it clear that "being Jewish," articulating through his love and devotion to Israel those values that define what is means to be Jewish, has been his life's work and is our life's work. Whether via an Israeli national identity or an American national identity, "being Jewish" is the transcendent theme of a Jewish life.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs' 14 national member agencies and 125 Community Relations Councils debated and adopted five resolutions expressing the consensus view of the American Jewish community at the JCPA's annual Plenum in Detroit. The resolutions deal with anti-Semitism on campuses, collective bargaining, education equity, gender segregation in Israel, and hydrofracking for natural gas and oil.
Countering Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Activity on Campus This resolution calls for education about and support for the "important remedy" that is now available under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and calls on campus leaders to do more to make students safe. It embraces a range of responses to hostile campus atmospheres including dialogue, education, and legal remedies.
Collective Bargaining This resolution continues longstanding support for collective bargaining for public employees and opposes efforts to narrow or eliminate it.
Equal Education Opportunity This resolution addresses inequity in educational opportunity in public schools. This resolution calls for research, education, and community attention directed to closing the achievement gap in our nation's public schools and heightening awareness of this issue on the national Jewish agenda.
Gender Segregation in Public Spaces in Israel This resolution was ultimately supported by the National Council of Jewish Women along with the Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Orthodox Jewish movements. It states that enforced gender segregation in secular public spaces is inconsistent with Israel's founding principles of equality and, at the same time, that there may be circumstances where accommodation of gender segregation may be appropriate such as the consideration of religious and cultural sensitivities in the delivery of municipal services
Hydrofracking This resolution addresses natural gas and oil extraction by the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as hydrofracking. The resolution calls for studies, disclosure, safeguards, and oversight.
Reprinted courtesy of Yaakov (Dry Bones) Kirschen www.DryBonesBlog.blogspot.com.
— by Yaakov Kirschen Today's Golden Oldie is from the Lag Ba'Omer holiday back in 1999. I'm running it today because tonight we'll be celebrating the bon-fire holiday.
Back then we were having an election and Mr. Shuldig had saved all the campaign literature for burning. This year we're also having an election but it hasn't quite started and it's too early to have a stock of campaign leaflets to burn yet.
Editor's Introduction: The statistics in the article by Tami Lehman-Wilzig that follows point to the mitzvah-centered courage that it takes to adopt. The range of feelings and vignettes she shares help us all appreciate the mitzvah of kavod habriot, honor for all who are created. The Other Side of Adoption
— by Tami Lehman-Wilzig
For over a decade my husband has been urging to me to write the book The Other Side of Adoption. "You've got to tell the real story - that it's no picnic." Shuddering at the thought, I always answer: "Too painful, too personal and it will only hurt the boys."
"Outside the box and over the top interesting", is how participant Ron Siegel, described his 2012 LimmudPhilly this past weekend. "National leaders and the best of local teachers came out and gave their best. We were like drinking it up." Exclaimed 20 and 30-something Anna and Beth Silver. Sophie Mellon added: "Just today, I learned how to encounter a homeless person in one session, Jewish traditions about creating social change in another, and then I attended a Jewish theater event, a very hot Maccabeat concert, and the discussion at lunch about Jewish values and health insurance, I learned a ton."
The account of my father, Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg continues below:
The 1st Emergence from Hell -the Scholar Lays Intellectual Siege to the Zeitgeist
My father had plenty of time, during his two years in prison, to further his intellectual insights into contemporary philosophy. Upon his release, he returned to Austria and pondered what the future had in store.
In the meantime, he penned his thoughts into a series of three articles on the position of Judaism as the " nay-sayer" of civilization, especially in contrast to the most popular intellectual trends of his day: Economic determinism as expressed in Marxism; Genetic determinism as expressed in Nazi Racism; Cultural determinism as expressed in Fascism; and psychological determinism as expressed in the depth psychology schools of Freud and Jung. Finally, in the second and third essay, he attacks the enthronement of instinctual drives in neo-Romanticism as expressed by D.H. Lawrence and Nietsche and culminating in the nihilism inherent in National Socialism-Nazism.
The title of the series, in German, is "Mut Zum Geist", "The Courage of the Spirit" as I have phrased it, but more accurately, "Courage to or for the Spirit." ."Geist" has greater implications than the English word " Spirit", which has only religious connotations. In German, it encompasses, as well, the whole realm of the mind, whether individual or collective, for humanity, or of an underlying "Mind " of the Universe. It requires courage to face the realm of values and ideals, Geist. Quite appropriately, this phrase appears later in the writings of Viktor Frankl, also a Holocaust survivor, the father of Logotherapy, who emphasized the centrality of meaning in life and the need for moral courage. It stands in contrast to the "Triumph of the Will" as hallowed in the adoration of Hitler by movie-maker, Leni Reifenstahl, in her propaganda film.
His essays appeared in the Jewish Press Zentrale of Zurich. I had the first essay in my possession and the librarian of the Zurich Jewish Community , Dr. Yvonne Domhardt, sent me copies of the other two essays. I thank Prof. Michal Bodeman, University of Toronto, for his clarifications.
If you host a Passover Seder or two, there is a good chance that you will have a refrigerator full of unconsumed food. The principle of Bal Tashkhit (Kiddushin 32a) is basic to Jewish Law. "Bal Tashkhit" means "do not destroy." We are instructed to avoid senseless waste or damage. When I find creative new ways to serve my Passover surplus, it feels like I am performing a mitzvah! How can you get people to enjoy the uneaten fare from your festive meal? Incorporate it with the huge supply of matza and eggs that are necessary to prepare for Passover. Dress up your matza brei (fried matza) and prepare satisfying repasts for your friends and family.
A last minute wonderfulness.... Spiritual preparation for Passover in three, 2 minute visualizations, by Rabbi Joyce Reinitz, also a psychotherapist, who specializes in Jewish healing using the therapeutic guidance modalities developed by her honored teacher, of blessed memory, Madame Colette Aboulker-Muscat.
With 1 in 6 Americans struggling to put nutritious food on the table every day, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) and MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger hosted Members of Congress, Administration officials, and national faith and anti-poverty leaders at the National Hunger Seder at the U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center. Seder participants made the case for protecting and strengthening funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) as legislators begin to negotiate the 2012 Farm Bill Reauthorization.
SNAP and MAZON have also developed a version of the 2012 Hunger Seder you can using in your own home to promote "hunger awareness and activism.
Similarly, the Jewish Social Policy Action Network develops issue oriented material each year you can use to enrich your seder. Supplements to the traditional Haggadah relate the biblical story of the Exodus to current events and issues.
The 2012 Freedom Supplement, comprised of 16 pages with illustrations, is now available without charge. The Freedom Seder Supplement celebrates emerging freedom movements around the world with poems, texts and prayers. Editors Stephen C. Sussman Esq. and Kenneth R. Myers Esq. have drawn from far-ranging sources, from Lord Byron to Tibet. Each of the readings includes suggestions keying it into the traditional Seder service.
In 2010 JSPAN released its first Supplement, entitled We were strangers, on the theme of immigration in history and in the United States.
In 2011 the JSPAN Supplement, This is the bread of poverty, brought the focus to hunger here and around the world. The 2012 "Freedom Seder" takes up the human longing for freedom that is spreading around the globe, and concludes with four resolutions that we as American Jews can meaningfully adopt.
More about the National Hunger Seder after the jump.
What Jewish person can live with the knowledge over 18% of Philadelphians live below the poverty line? Many suffer malnutrition due to poverty; over 12% of Jewish Philadelphians are impoverished to the point of needing help with affording food. There are things you can do immediately, beginning with watching the 4 minute video on the right.
For Trayvon Martin, murdered February 26 in Sanford, Florida;
For Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons, Gabriel and Arieh, and Miriam Monsonego, murdered March 19 at Ozar Hatorah in Toulouse, France; Master Sergeant Imad Ibn-Ziaten, murdered March 11 in Toulouse, France; and Corporal Abel Chennouf and Private Mohamed Legouad, murdered March 15 in Montauban, France; and
For the families murdered in March 11 in Balandi and Alkozai, Afghanistan:
Mohamed Dawood son of Abdullah,
Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma,
Nazar Mohamed,
Payendo,
Robeena,
Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed,
Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid,
Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed,
Masooma, Farida, Palwasha, Nabia, Esmatullah daughters of Mohamed Wazir,
Faizullah son of Mohamed Wazir,
Essa Mohamed son of Mohamed Hussain, and
Akhtar Mohamed son of Murrad Ali
— we grieve and we try to learn how to prevent such killings in the future.
After the jump, an English version of the Mourners' Kaddish in Time of War and Violence; then, my thoughts on the causes and the meanings of these deaths. I urge that in synagogues, churches, and mosques, memorial prayers be said this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for all those killed in these three moments of horror.
Jonathan Kremer has designed an Omer calendar for us this year. Begin counting at the second seder and continue counting each night preceding the next day. (Yom tov and Shabbat begin the evening before the graphic.) Before you know it, it'll be time to celebrate Shavuot!
Thirty Yeshiva University undergraduate students were privileged to explore social justice issues for a week this past January in Israel. This trip, Tzedek and Tzedekah (Justice and Charity)was sponsored by the Jim Joseph Foundation under a grant from the Council of Jewish Federations. Our delegation, composed of fifteen young women and an equal number of young men, was accompanied by Roshei Yeshiva (heads of the school), Rav Hershel Shechter and Rav Assaf Bennarsh. We spent two weeks exploring many aspects of social justice and the laws pertaining to justice in the Torah.
Photo by Sgt. Christine Samples
U.S. Army Chaplain Lt. Col. Avi Weiss wears a prayer shawl during Shabbat, a service held at the beginning of Sabbath, in the camp's chapel Feb. 24, Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. He made his first visit to Leatherneck since his December arrival in theater.
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - There's just not enough rabbis to go around. That's why the only U.S. military rabbi currently serving in Afghanistan travels regularly from his base at Kandahar Airfield to other military camps here and uses the Internet to reach his congregation. It's not a conventional role for a rabbi, but it helps him reach more people.
Army chaplain, Lt. Col. Avi Weiss of Chicago, a father of three and grandfather of 11, recently made his first visit to Camp Leatherneck since his December arrival in theater.
He looks younger than his 61 years and has a friendly, approachable manner. His attire consists of the Army uniform and a black yarmulke that miraculously stays on his shaved head with the help of some bobby pins. His eyes rest on each person individually when he's talking in a group, like an unspoken invitation for each one's thoughts.
Anyone who wants to jump in the conversation, however, needs to act quickly. Keeping up with Weiss' train of thought isn't easy. He jumps from one topic to another and back again. It's a habit that his wife, Elcya, teases him about often. Fortunately, Weiss stays on topic during services.
Before Shabbat, the Friday evening service observing the Sabbath, Weiss sat on a bench in Leatherneck's simple, wooden chapel to talk about his ministry.
"Attempting to keep traditional Jewish laws is difficult in this environment," said Weiss, explaining the shortage of rabbis in the military. "It's a credit to the military that it does a lot to help someone practice their faith, but it's still not necessarily the choice environment for someone who wants to live a certain way."
Washington, DC - Jewish Women International (JWI) announces the release of the first in a series of study guides related to Women, Relationships and Jewish Text. Rethinking Purim is designed to spark new conversations about relationships by offering a fresh look at old texts. The guides are a project of JWI's Clergy Task Force on Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community, a group of prominent clergy committed to promoting Jewish responses and resources that end violence against women. Three more guides will be released in the coming year, each relating to a Jewish holiday.
Yesterday Annette Powers wrote about the Robert M. Beren Academy's basketball team which had qualified for the semifinals but could not participate because the Texas Asscociation of Private and Parochial Schools refused to accomodate their observance of the Jewish Sabbath.
This story has a happy ending. Not only did it serve to unify the Jewish people as the Union for Reform Judaism petitioned the TAPPS to reschedule the game, but this petition along with a chorus of other voices prevailed upon the TAPPS who reversed course and will start the semi-final early to allow the Orthodox Jewish Beren Stars to compete.
A statement from the Beren Academy follows the jump.
Hearts have their own natural biological pacemaker that allows them to beat on their own accord even when the brain dies.
— Robby Berman
People don't like to talk about death. But I can't help it. It's my job. I encourage Jews to donate organs upon death to the general public. It is a difficult profession and journalists are constantly making my job even tougher. Recently a four-month-old Israeli baby boy died. Some Israeli media reported he died on Friday while others reported he died on Sunday. Why were they confused? Because his brain died on Friday and his heart died on Sunday.
What do Anne Frank, Daniel Pearl, Elie Wiesel's family and the parents of Simon Wiesenthal have in common?
They were all killed simply because they were Jews, yet they have been subjected to further indignation recently as Mormons have conducted "posthumous baptisms" in their name converting them from the Jewish faith to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This practice violates the agreement which the Church signed in 1995.
They all died for being Jews, but they are not allowed to rest in peace as Jews.
To them we say, we appreciate your good intentions but rest assured that Danny's soul was redeemed through the life that he lived and the values that he upheld. He lived as a proud Jew, died as a proud Jew and is currently facing his creator as a Jew, blessed, accepted and redeemed. For the record, let it be clear: Danny did not choose to be baptized, nor did his family consent to this uncalled-for ritual.
Pearl's widow Marianne called on Gov. Mitt Romney to apologize on behalf of his church.
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These grants and scholarships are multi-year and are offered to new and existing day school students of all denominations. Qualifications and details vary based on grade level.
Don't wait another minute to give your child a Jewish day school education.
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Many people have urged that synagogues, churches, mosques make sure they know who among their members need help - and make sure they get it. That requires explicit public statements from clergy, board members, etc., that no one who has been disemployed or had their home taken away, etc., is at fault, and all should let the clergyperson or a Board member know they are in trouble.
Leaders across the political and religious spectrum celebrate Tu B'shvat by setting goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 14% by 2014.
— by Vicki Stearn
The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) today announced that a diverse group of community leaders has joined its Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign by signing the "Jewish Environment and Energy Imperative" declaration. Rabbis from the Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, Reform and Renewal movements and other communal leaders set the goal of significantly lowering greenhouse-gas emissions, advocating for energy independence and security, and reducing the Jewish community's energy consumption 14% by 2014. The official signing ceremony at Manhattan's 14th Street Y preceded Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish new year for trees.
The declaration states:
The need to transform the world's energy economy while addressing global climate change is not only a religious and moral imperative, it is a strategy for security and survival.
Each of us — as Jews, people of faith and Americans — has a personal responsibility to work toward lowering greenhouse-gas emissions and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels," said Rabbi Steve Gutow, COEJL co-chair, and president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. "This responsibility starts in our hearts and from there we must care for our homes, places of worship and institutional buildings.
What do April 15th and the Shevat 15th have in common? Both are tax days! Two thousand years ago, the 15th of Shevat was when the twelve Hebrew tribes paid tithes to the Levites in Jerusalem. Tu B'Shevat, the fifteenth day of the month of Shevat, is described in the Mishnah as the New Year for Trees. During the times of the Temple, fruit tithes would be calculated beginning on Tu B'Shevat. Fruit that grew on trees after the fifteenth day of Shevat was counted for the tithes that were due the following year. These tithes supported the Levites, helped feed the poor, and paid for Tu B'Shevat festivities in Jerusalem.
Following the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans, the Jews were exiled from Israel, and tithes were no longer paid. The Jews in the Diaspora preserved the memory of Tu B'Shevat by remembering their connection to the Land of Israel. In the Jewish communities of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and Kurdistan, Tu B'Shevat developed into the "day of eating the seven species." The seven species are the seven fruits and grains that are listed in the Torah as special products of the Land of Israel. In the 16th century Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the famous mystic of Safed, and his students collaborated to create the Tu B'Shevat Seder. The observance of Tu B'Shevat has undergone many permutations
since that time.
How can you and your family enjoy this ancient holiday in present day Philadelphia?
Some hands-on ideas to bring your families the warming spirit of Tu B'Shevat this winter follow the jump.
There are only two ways to raise your children: you either shut them down or you open them up.
If you shut them down you raise them in a zero-sum world of winners and losers. You teach them that the world is a pie of fixed size, and that if they want more they must see that others have less or perhaps nothing at all. This is a fearful world of endless and often violent competition and retribution; a world of haves and have-nots; a world of us versus them where the ends (the success of us) justify the means (whatever secures the failure of them).
If you open your children up you raise them in a nonzero-sum world where abundance is the norm, and while there will still be winners and losers-those who have more and those have less-it is not a world that allows some to have nothing. This is a world rooted in compassion rather than competition; a world of us and them rather than a world of us versus them.
"Wisdom of the Ages on Today's Economic Crisis," a new six-week course on Jewish Business Ethics from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, presents timeless Talmudic wisdom on real-world ethical quandaries. The six-session series is accredited for 9 CLE ethics credits and will commence during the week of January 22.
The course explores the Jewish perspective on the professional and personal ethics of money. Topics include: insider trading, living wages, personal bankruptcy, CEO compensation, and freeloading.
Rabbi Brennan the local JLI instructor in Penn Wynne explained:
The recent failures in the financial industry have drastically changed the way we think about business. At JLI, we deeply believe that business should be a force for good, and that's why we're presenting students with timeless Talmudic insights into real-world ethical dilemmas.
Spanning a wide range of intriguing subjects, Money Matters discusses the personal ethics of bankruptcy and freeloading asking questions such as: After purchasing a ticket for a ball game, can you move to an unoccupied, higher-priced seat? If you ever have the money are you morally obliged to repay discharged debt? Questions regarding topics in social ethics such as living wages, insider trading, CEO compensation, and collective bargaining are also addressed.
How do we relate as contemporary Jews to the idea of spreading "the miracle" of Hanukkah? Is the "big idea really to perpetuate faith through the story of an inadequate flask of oil lasting eight days? What does it mean, a miracle? In Einei Hashem: Contemporary Stories of Divine Providence in Eretz Yisrael, Dr. Meir Wikler speaks of how Rabbi Chazkel Levenstein of the Mirrer Yeshiva used to encourage his students to maintain a diary on what appeared miraculous to them in daily life. To provide miracle examples, I wish to bear witness to some of what I find to be miraculous that can be experienced in Germany today, of all places.
PJVoice readers will surely love, as the cover copy indicates: "to dive into these sixty inspiring and provocative adult-level mitzvah stories crafted by leading Jewish storytellers, rabbis and authors from across the full spectrum of Jewish life. These juried, newly-minted tales reveal how each mitzvah, when carried out with understanding and creativity, becomes a rich source of spirituality and meaning." Mitzvah Stories cultivates respectful Jewish community and facilitates engaged Jewish living. Meant for reading and retelling across the generations, Mitzvah Stories shows us that Judaism is a spiritual practice.
Information on the companion deck of 52 professionally illustrated Mitzvah Cards follows the jump.
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The Jewish Council for Public Affairs' 14 national member agencies and 125 Community Relations Councils debated and adopted five resolutions expressing the consensus view of the American Jewish community at the JCPA's annual Plenum in Detroit. The resolutions deal with anti-Semitism on campuses, collective bargaining, education equity, gender segregation in Israel, and hydrofracking for natural gas and oil.
Reprinted courtesy of Yaakov (Dry Bones) Kirschen www.DryBonesBlog.blogspot.com.
"Outside the box and over the top interesting", is how participant Ron Siegel, described his 2012 LimmudPhilly this past weekend. "National leaders and the best of local teachers came out and gave their best. We were like drinking it up." Exclaimed 20 and 30-something Anna and Beth Silver. Sophie Mellon added: "Just today, I learned how to encounter a homeless person in one session, Jewish traditions about creating social change in another, and then I attended a Jewish theater event, a very hot Maccabeat concert, and the discussion at lunch about Jewish values and health insurance, I learned a ton."
A last minute wonderfulness.... Spiritual preparation for Passover in three, 2 minute visualizations, by Rabbi Joyce Reinitz, also a psychotherapist, who specializes in Jewish healing using the therapeutic guidance modalities developed by her honored teacher, of blessed memory, Madame Colette Aboulker-Muscat.
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Let all who are hungry come and eat.
— by Malka Nusbaum
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