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Life Bar Mitzvah Smackdown: Chabad vs. Reform
Are Chabad bar mitzvahs a joke? Are Reform bar mitzvahs “institutional extortion”? The JTA’s Ami Eden has the blow-by-blow on the debate over which movement does a better bar mitzvah.
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Life Avi Shafran Likes the New Reform Prayerbook — Sort of
Rabbi Avi Shafran — spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel of America — seems genuinely excited about the Reform movement’s new prayerbook. To be sure, the Reform Siddur “Mishkan T’filah” is pretty far from what Shafran would consider an ideal prayerbook, but he’s pretty pleased by its steps toward tradition — particularly its inclusion of…
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Life Kippot, Tzitzit, Tefillin, Shuckling — Who Do These Reform Teens Think They Are?
Debra Nussbaum Cohen (one of my favorite religion reporters) has a fascinating article in the latest issue of The New York Jewish Week about young Reform Jews turning toward tradition. Reporting from the Reform movement’s Kutz Camp in Warwick, N.Y., she writes: In addition to demanding more traditional prayer, a small but growing number of…
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News Bringing it all back home at Berkeley Bayit
How a Jewish co-housing community created by the Reform movement transformed the lives of California college students
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