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Mah Rabu מה רבו: #TBT: “Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism” at 10
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Friday, July 24, 2015. TBT: “Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism” at 10. Ten years ago this week, I posted “Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism”. This post, framed as a “work in progress”, defined three different “stages” of Jewish pluralism:. Stage 1: “Frummest common denominator”. 8220;Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism” seemed to a...
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Monday, July 18, 2005. Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism. Upon request from EMM. This is a work in progress, so suggestions are welcome. Just as there are different stages of moral development. Where I think the emphasis on "comfort" comes from:. Many of us have strongly-held beliefs that translate into forms of communal dave...
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: April 2014
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Saturday, April 05, 2014. Lonely (and whiny) internal monologue upon the latest of many recent widely discussed articles on streams of American Judaism:. It's great that this discussion is happening, but why is no one writing about my. Because I don't have time to blog anymore.". Links to this post. Overheard in New York.
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: "Independent minyanim" in 1985
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Wednesday, October 09, 2013. Independent minyanim" in 1985. A late-breaking update has been added to this old post. On the history of the term "independent minyan". Scroll down to the bottom. Jerry Langer jalangernj@hotmail.com. October 24, 2013 10:41 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Independent minyanim in 1985.
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Notes on the Pew survey
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Thursday, October 03, 2013. Notes on the Pew survey. The Pew Research survey, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,”. There has been discussion. This conclusion is not supported by the data. Let us consider an alternate hypothesis: The attrition rate of Orthodox Jews has remained constant over time. What results would...The p...
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Limmud NY: Reform halakhah panel: DVD extras
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Limmud NY: Reform halakhah panel: DVD extras. I blogged last fortnight. About the panel on "The Role of Halakhah in Reform Judaism" at Limmud NY. On a meta-halakhic level, though not on a halakhic level) and that Reform Judaism means that we follow the ethical mitzvot ( bein adam la-chavero.
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Hilchot Pluralism, Part VIII: Simchat Torah
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Tuesday, October 05, 2010. Hilchot Pluralism, Part VIII: Simchat Torah. The Hilchot Pluralism series documents and analyzes the pluralistic practices that independent Jewish communities are developing. Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism. Hilchot Pluralism, Part I. Hilchot Pluralism, Part II. Hilchot Pluralism, Part III. Cross-...
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Mid-decade update
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Saturday, October 25, 2014. Now that we're into Cheshvan, it's time for a mid-decade update! Four years ago, we noted. We made the following prediction: This decade, and especially this half-decade, will see lots of 2-day-yom tov people switching over to 1 day. If so, post in the comments. If you don't want to out yourse...
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Prediction
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Sunday, October 03, 2010. The holiday season is now over. And something about it may have felt a bit out of the ordinary, unusual, abnormal. And based on recent experience, that feeling is accurate. But in the 2010s, abnormal is becoming the new normal. From a couple of years ago covers all the details. In a few years, w...
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Mah Rabu מה רבו: Toward a Reform Jewish narrative myth
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Mah Rabu מה רבו. Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, DC, and the intersections of all those areas. Contact: mahrabu at gmail dot com. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Toward a Reform Jewish narrative myth. I foreshadowed this post quite a while ago. Egalitarianism = halacha l'Moshe miSinai. This post follows on a number. Addressed issues of Reform Jewish ideology and identity, including one. That started to lay out some of the ideas in this post. Reform Jew...
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