Social Media For The Observant Jew
On a Friday evening, I tweeted three times and posted three Facebook updates at three separate times -- and I wasn't even online.
On a Friday evening, I tweeted three times and posted three Facebook updates at three separate times -- and I wasn't even online.
Joey Weisenberg | Posted 05.03.2012
In traditional synagogues, many Jews refrain from playing instruments on the Sabbath. I treat this instrumental limitation as an opportunity to creatively explore the musical and spiritual possibilities that exist outside of instruments.
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks | Posted 04.14.2012
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. Otherwise, we may not be in Egypt, but we can still be slaves.
Noah Baron | Posted 05.31.2012
The idea that external indicators of faith -- whether that is manifested as wearing a yarmulke or a cross -- are stand-ins for actual religiosity -- that is, the degree of one's faith -- is fraught with problems.
Nancy Fuchs Kreimer | Posted 05.27.2012
While Jewish law sacralizes food throughout the year, Passover brings eating to a new level of complexity. Sometimes the details threaten to overwhelm and obscure the meaning. Returning to the story of the Exodus helps the message assert itself.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 05.21.2012
While Sabbath observance is often dismissed as archaic, attitudes are changing as the pace of information and methods of delivery are unrelenting.
S.R. Hewitt | Posted 04.29.2012
What is there to love about Shabbat? It's a day to rest? It's a day to sleep? Or perhaps, like thousands of of men and women profess after their first full Shabbat experience, it's the food.
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 03.31.2012
Rest and joy are two things that can help us assess our ideas before we try to transform them into reality. And those two aspects are what define one of Judaism's signature contributions to the world -- Shabbat.
Eitan Fishbane, Ph.D. | Posted 02.07.2012
Divinity is best characterized as a wondrous light that shines with the mystery of all that was, all that is and all that shall ever be. The eternal. The timeless.
David Briggs | Posted 01.10.2012
The multiple health benefits of an active faith life tend to stop at four-course Shabbat meals and church supper tables groaning with fried meat, biscuits and gravy, new research shows
Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 01.02.2012
Eating on a food stamp budget can feel like a form of imprisonment -- being deprived of the basic freedom of choosing the food one could want means that the normal choices afforded Americans of simply buying on a whim are no longer possible.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen | Posted 11.24.2011
While the 39 categories tell us what not to do on Shabbat, they also inform us what we should do the other six days of the week. And what is that? Build a dwelling place for God in the world.
Ariel Gros-Werter | Posted 11.06.2011
The gathering of troves of young Jews at the Great Lawn of Central Park in Manhattan on Saturday afternoons is in many ways like a non-virtual Facebook, except without alerts of your friends in common.
Ariel Gros-Werter | Posted 09.14.2011
Judaism in its nature is a social religion. Inviting people for a large dinner to hang out and meet each other fits what it means to act Jewishly -- to connect with other Jews.
Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald | Posted 05.25.2011
So what does one do when unplugged? Whatever your religion, faith or practice, there is much to be learned from the notion of a Sabbath or Shabbat.
Ronen Paldi | Posted 05.25.2011
American tourists would be wise to understand that it is still the world's only Jewish country and customs and habits are a little bit different there than in America.
Rachel Fleischer | Posted 05.25.2011
In the chaos of the everyday we sometimes forget to remember the past. Too often we take for granted what we have, forgetting the courageous sacrifices made by those who came before us.
David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011
One aspect of modernity that has posed a delicate challenge has been the role of women in the synagogue. A few Orthodox thinkers have weighed in, challenging some traditional dogmas.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the prize which each of my Jewish loves - my Jewish teachers, my Rabbi and my Rebbetzin, my Jewish friends, my special Jewish Navigator and every Jewish patient has ultimately taught me: inside every Muslim is an inner Jew.
Tiffany Shlain | Posted 11.17.2011
Shabbat is a very old idea -- 5000 years old. And people have been talking about "technology shabbats" for a while ... but perhaps today, we. Really. Need. An. Intervention.
AP | TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press Writer | Posted 05.25.2011
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Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011
As a Christian who worships the Shabbat, I believe Ramadan is a wonderful way for Christians to remember their Muslim brothers and sisters
James M. Lynch | Posted 11.17.2011
How does taking a 25 hour break have anything to do with saving the world? Well for me, it is not only physical and spiritual recharging; it's also emotional and intellectual.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 05.25.2011
In the same week that hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a travesty of democratic values, Americans took to the streets for the death of a superstar entertainer.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.17.2011
To read Hitchens these days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is fomented by their Rabbis.
Daniel Vahab | Posted 05.09.2012