Shavua Tov
shabbat in a nutshell:
Chicken, praying, sleep.
Praying, chicken, banana grams, sleep.
Sleep, protests, tofu, sleep.
The Green Rabbinical Student
“See my works, how lovely and praiseworthy they are, and all that I created, for your sake I created it. Put your mind [to this], that you don’t ruin or destroy my world, for if you ruin there is no one who will repair after you.”
Articles of note
- Orthodox American Rabbis Visit Desecrated Mosque in Kfar YasufOn Tuesday, rabbis representing Open Orthodox communities in the United States and Israel visited the community of Yasuf, expressing shared pain and condemnation for the desecration of the Yasuf community mosque, allegedly committed by Jewish extremists. Wearing their kippot, Rabbi Avi Weiss, founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and rabbi of the Hebrew Institu […]
- Tell Minister Katz: “Women don’t belong at the back of the bus!”Shared by Brian This is my roommate writing, pass this along and help end segregation in Israel!! Women arrested at the Kotel is not the only battle over basic women’s rights and religious freedoms in Israel this season: By December 27, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz of Likud must endorse or turn down his committee’s recommendation to end the “mehadrin […]
- March in Protest of Woman Arrested at Western Wall!
We were...Classmates, SO's, and grandmas! Rally meeting at Kikar Paris Molly and Bess on Moshe Hess Walking down King George Photo from IRAC March in Protest of Woman Arrested at Western Wall! We were lucky to be able to participate in this rally in response to the arrest of a woman for wearing a tallit at the Western Wall, amongst other things. It was amazing to […]
- Holocaust Denier to Represent EU at Climate TalksImage credit: Tessish/YouTube I hesitated about posting this story due to the divisive and heated rhetoric that has been appearing in comments on any post about climate change recently. Given the huge consequences at stake at Copenhagen, the last thing we need is more 'them and us' political mudslinging. But those stakes also demand that we underst […]
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