053 | Into the waters: Joining the ancestors, an interview with the AJU Mikvah
On Tuesday, October 6, 2020: I go to the mikvah today to become Jewish. Here are my thoughts the night before.
On Tuesday, October 6, 2020: I go to the mikvah today to become Jewish. Here are my thoughts the night before.
This week as I marked my first Tisha B’av as part of the community, booms filled the sky. Smoke filled the air in Portland and beyond, and I thought of all the atrocities that befell Israel over time and how we’re now seeing it again in America.
It’s peak Netflix in general, but also for Jewish and Haredi content. Here’s what I learned. One of Us Netflix, 2017 (Yiddish, English) Netflix documentary One of Us highlights the plights of ultraorthodox Jews who fled the community and like Esty in Unorthodox (below), didn’t exactly leave easily. One lives in a camper in LA, another faces terrible harassment and […]
What does Judaism traditionally believe about the big man? For starters, not a man.
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