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Mazel tov!
Commented Sep 3, 2005 on Rites of passage at Velveteen Rabbi
Rites of passage
On Tuesday I reached a major milestone: I mailed my application to become part of the ALEPH rabbinic smicha (ordination) program. The application has been in-progress since I met the dean, Rabbi Marcia Prager, at Pesach; back then I promised myself that I would submit all of the official paper...
"that crisis is a result of inadequate Jewish education"
Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!
The Jews I know who have wandered away from Judaism either received no Jewish education, or received one so poor as to make them desire to distance themselves from it. Intermarriage is the symptom, rather than the foundational problem in those cases. People who are aware of and energized by the beauty in Judaism are not likely to let it slip away, no matter who they date or marry.
Thank you for this thoughtful post!
Commented Sep 3, 2005 on Oy vey, indeed. at Velveteen Rabbi
Oy vey, indeed.
My heart sank when my aggregator netted me the headline A guide to dating Jews earns author 'Nazi' tag, and the first lines of the story didn't improve my mood any: "Kristina Grish has been described as a 'Nazi' and little better than a prostitute. Her crime: writing a light-hearted, non-Jewis...
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