A Sad Shavuot in Tel Aviv

Source: The Huffington Post

At sunset on May 26 we observe Shavuot, commemorating the occasion on Mount Sinai when G-d gave the Torah to Moses, the Jewish people, and the world. Shavuot is also the time that Jews read and study the book of Ruth. Born a ...
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Judaism's Attitude to Converts: Love Them!

Source: Arutz Sheva

The laws relating to Jewish converts are amongst the most astounding laws in the Torah. Despite all of the false criticism directed at the Jewish people on the grounds that Judaism is racist, the Torah teaches us that any non-Jew who truly and earnest ...
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Remembering Ruth

Source: Jerusalem Post

The public reading of the Book of Ruth gives Shavuot, a holiday with many dimensions of meaning, yet another facet of profundity. At the center of the book is Ruth’s physical and spiritual journey away from Moabite cul ...
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Torah can be used to let new Jews in, not keep them out

Source: Haaretz

this story is by “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.” So wrote the great American poet, Robert Frost. Walls divide us, separate us, block us from free contact with each other. And yet, we can’t live without walls. We n ...
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