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These people, however, are not - please pray for them.

Purim Sameach to everyone outside Jerusalem! I'm making toffee apples for our celebrations tomorrow (though I have quite spectacularly burned my finger on 150 degree C toffee :( )

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The usual disclaimers. You know the drill by now.

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Man, I completely forgot to upload this with the Yom Kippur stuff. My computer crashed and I meant to set it up again, but I got distracted and then it was Shabbos. But anyway, here for archiving purposes, with the usual disclaimers, is a bunch of rubbish on the three minor holidays.

Minor Holidays

Peppered throughout the year are various smaller ( Read more... )

The usual disclaimers.

Yom Kippur

The joyful folk elements of Rosh Hashanah contrast markedly with the tenor of the final, and most sacred, of the Ten Days of Repentance, Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement. Also called the Shabbat Shabbaton - Sabbath of Sabbaths - it is the holiest day in the Jewish year, when usually empty synagogues are filled to ( Read more... )

The Yamim Noraim - Rosh Hashanah

The second important group of festivals is the Yamim Noraim (literally, the ‘Awesome Days’). In its narrowest sense, the term refers to the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (‘Day of Atonement’), but is sometimes used to describe the entire period from Tishrei 1 to Tishrei 10, including the Aseret Yemei ( Read more... )

IssueJewish PositionChristian PositionG-D
G-d is one and indivisible:
Deut. 4:39 - “Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is G-d in heaven, that the Lord is G-d in heaven above, an in the earth beneath; there is no other.”

Isaiah 45:5 - “I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no other G-d”.

Shema (Deut. 6:4 ( Read more... )

ביהדות מסורתית, החתונה היא אידיאל. בראשית, האשם אומר: "פרו ורבו". צריך להתחתן ליצור ילדים, אבל גם אדמים נגקקים הברות - התנ''ך אומר: "לא אב היות האדם לבדו ... אל כןיעזב-איש, את-אביו. ואת-אמו; ודבק באשתו, והיו לבשר אחד". בחתונה יהודית, גם החתן וגם הכלה יהודים. לפעמים איש יהודי רוצה להתחתן עם איש גוית, או אישה יהודית רוצה להתחתן עם איש גוי - אם כן, ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in this? They lie, the forms and brochure aren't on the website, but I have them in pdf format and don't know how to post them here. If you want to have  a look at the brochure with more info on the events and talks, comment and I'll email them to you

Second Young Jewish Adult Forum, Rome - B'nai B'rith

Following the resounding ( Read more... )