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Jewish Online Resources 7/12/24

By Reporter staff

A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available. 

Melton will hold the virtual class “Antisemitism, Media, and Jewish Identity: T…

Off the Shelf: Love, religion and Judaism

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Judaism is about law, while Christianity is about love. Rabbi Shai Held sees this statement as not only anti-Jewish propaganda, but completely mistaken. His purpose in writing “Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life” (Farrar, Straus and Girou…

Columbia protesters chant, “No More Money for Israel Crime”

By Bill Simons

Yom Hashoah, Monday, May 6, 2024, was a day of Holocaust remembrance. My destination was Columbia University. As the train headed uptown, I reviewed recent events at Columbia.

The Columbia Daily Spectator, the university’s student newspaper, collaborated with New York Maga…

Jewish Online Resources 6/28/24

By Reporter staff

A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available. 

American Jewish University will offer “Summer Book Talks: The Boy with the Star…

Off the Shelf: Runaway queen

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

It was the title that caught my eye: “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir” (She Writes Press). The author’s name, Rossi (just Rossi), didn’t seem familiar. However, when looking at her short biography, the title of her previous memoir. “The Raging Sk…