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Media and Tech
The Haredi World Wide Web
Last month’s 60,000 strong Ultra-Orthodox rally decrying the Internet made headlines, with many mainstream and Jewish media outlets clucking their tongues. Yet the rally was but the latest chapter in a long history of Haredi engagement with, and fear of, the Internet. The situation is far more complex, nuanced, and interesting than the rally and its media snickerers suggest.
Faith and Practice
Hearing the Healers
“Healing” is an abstract word, but the experiences we have as healers are concrete and specific. Here, read the voices of three people engaged in the healing process: a military chaplain, a hospice volunteer, and a social worker experiencing her own grief.
Arts and Culture
The World Without You
An excerpt from Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, to be published by Pantheon Books on June 19.
Faith and Practice
Chevra Kaddisha: The Jewish Burial Society
They call me at 8:54 a.m.
“Yes, it would be an honor. Be there in twenty.” I hang up, wring my hands together twice, pull back my hair. I’ve only seen a dead body once before. It was fresh, recently deceased.
Love, Hate and the Jewish State
Zeek is proud to cosponsor the New Israel Fund’s Love, Hate and the Jewish State: A Conversation on Israel and Social Justice
May 17, 2012, 7–10 PM
Hub San Francisco in the SF Chronicle Building
Faith and Practice
Kabbalah for the Masses: Re-considering the Elitism of Medieval Jewish Mysticism
The perception of medieval Kabbalah as a carefully guarded, secret discourse is the result of an overemphasis on the claims of some of the early kabbalists, as well as a narrow selection of texts that have received disproportionate attention due to their prominence in later centuries. In fact, many medieval kabbalistic texts reflect an explicit desire to introduce Kabbalah to readers who are just beginning to study Jewish esoteric lore.
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | Nashville
Out Central, 6 pm
May 2, 2012
1709 Church Street, Nashville, TN
Faith and Practice
Chava Weissler: Tradition and Renewal
Rachel Barenblat speaks with Chava Weissler, writer, scholar, and folklorist, about Jewish spirituality, the blurry boundaries of a participant-observer, and the Jewish life of “non-elites.”
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | Boulder
Boulder JCC
April 23, 2012
3800 Kalmia Avenue, Boulder, CO
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | San Francisco
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav April 20, 2012 7:00 pm 290 Dolores Street, San Francisco, CA
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