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We praise people as ‘Good Samaritans,’ but there’s a complex history behind the phrase

“Good Samaritan” is a label often used to describe someone acting selflessly to benefit others, even if a total stranger.

The Conversation

At flashpoint Jerusalem holy site, whispered prayers defy unwritten accord

JERUSALEM Reuters) - After weeks of relative calm in Jerusalem, friction between Israel and Palestinians over unauthorized prayers by Jewish visitors in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound is raising the stakes at one of the Middle East's most volatile holy sites.

Reuters

US rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family's Italian town

From a tiny synagogue she fashioned from her ancestral home in a southern Italian mountain village, an American rabbi is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father

The Independent UK

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Rabbi’s suit over Florida abortion law tests bounds of religious objections after Roe

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, revoking a woman’s constitutional right to abortion, a rabbi and lawyer in Boynton Beach was preparing to take action against Florida. The state’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, he said, directly targets Jews.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Magic mushrooms are all the rage. But are they Jewish?

Rabbi Ben Gorelick is facing up to 32 years in prison for distributing psychedelics. His defense rests on the argument that tripping is a Jewish rite

The Guardian - US

From Rabbi Michael Simon (Temple Beth Kodesh) on Abortion, Judaism, and Religious Exemptions

As readers know, I've been interested in the question of abortion and religious exemption claims (see this May 9 post), so when I saw this item by Rabbi Simon, I found it much worth passing along. Rabbi Simon had been a lawyer for 20 years before becoming a full-time rabbi,…

Reason

Tentative Thoughts On The Jewish Claim To A "Religious Abortion"

Recently, Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor, a synagogue in Palm Beach County, Florida, challenged the constitutionality of Florida's new abortion restriction. I think there are many procedural problems with the complaint, including standing and the scope of the proposed remedy. (See my post here.) But here I'd like to address the merits…

Reason

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Jewish roots: the Kent farm cultivating Jewish principles of land stewardship

As Europe’s only Jewish farm faces closure, its founder explains why reviving Judaism’s ancient precepts of sustainable agriculture and conservation has never been more urgent

The Guardian - UK

It was only 50 years ago this month that the first female rabbi was ordained

Female rabbis have become a way of life these days, but Sally Priesand changed the course of women and Judaism when she became the first female rabbi in the United States in June 1972.

WEKU

Shavuot: A Jewish holiday of renewing commitment to God

The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. This gift, and the observance of Torah’s principles, is at the core of the Jews’ relationship with God,…

The Conversation

Israel signs first Arab free trade agreement with UAE

Deal is Israel’s first big trade accord with an Arab state, after establishing ties in 2020.

Al Jazeera

Court Can't Resolve Dispute Stemming from Rabbis' Condemning Use of Competing Kosher Certifier

From Nassau County (N.Y.) Justice Randy Sue Marber's decision last week in Chimichurri Chicken Corp. v. Vaad Hakashrus of the Five Towns Far Rockaway (see also this New York Post [Lisa Fickenscher] article about the filing of the lawsuit [UPDATE: link fixed]): The Plaintiff operates a restaurant in Cedarhurst, Nassau…

Reason

What is the Lag BaOmer pilgrimage?

The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel – which in 2022 falls on Wednesday night, May 18 – until recently has attracted as many as half a million visitors every year. The annual gathering, which takes place at what is believed to be the gravesite of the…

The Conversation

Baltimore’s oldest Reform temples celebrate merger with installations, festival of Jewish thought

BALTIMORE -- It has been an agonizingly long time since the members of Baltimore’s two oldest Reform Jewish temples have been able to worship as well and as fully as they’d like.

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French priest and Holocaust researcher gathers accounts of atrocities in Ukraine

A Roman Catholic priest has begun documenting the stories of those whose lives have been devastated by the war in Ukraine. Father Patrick Desbois is a former head of the Church's Commission for Relations with Judaism and spent years documenting the murder of 1.5 million Jews by the Nazis in…

The Guardian - UK

The lost Jews of Nigeria

The long read: Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have enthusiastically taken up the faith. Why?

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