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Jewish News Weekly – Though her grandfather was a rabbi in Ukraine, running the town s secret synagogue, Shterenberg had little exposure to Judaism. She had a bat mitzvah in Texas, but the process was foreign to her. It was shocking for the first time I had to

Converting, On Their Own Terms
Jewish Week – After dating a Jewish man for nine years, Linette Padron decided it was time to make a change. Born Catholic and raised in a strong Dominican and Italian family, Padron had learned a lot about Judaism from her partner, but it was only after they

There Is No New Anti-Semitism
Baltimore Chronicle – The Jewish establishment has turned Judaism into a cheer-leading religion for a particular national state that has a lot of Jews, but has seriously lost sight of the Jewish values which early Zionists hoped would find realization there. T he New York

Leading rabbis back bill to ease plight of ‘agunot’
Jerusalem Post – and Foreign Minister Tzippi Livni, would give it her support and that many others on the panel had given their assurances it would reach the Knesset plenum for the requisite rounds of voting. Even if the haredi parties such as United Torah Judaism

Eighth ‘Crazy Night’ for Jewish punks
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles – It was unclear who was there for the punk and who was there for the Judaism, but everyone seemed to be there for the music. Hosted and funded by Workmen’s Circle, the seemingly unlikely marriage of Judaism and punk brought bands like Yidcore

Diversity discussions offered
Evansville Courier-Press – The group includes representatives from Islam and Judaism, along with four varieties of Christianity: evangelical, mainline Protestant, Catholic and African-American. This makeup isn’t intended to represent Evansville’s entire religious spectrum, O