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• Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is celebrated the first and second days of Tishri. ...
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• This week's Forward (2/13/04) includes two pieces by yours truly reviewing recent recordings by a slew of klezmer, Yiddish and Jewish music artists.
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• Posted by adavidow at 01:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) --> February 02, 2004 New articles about, new releases from the Milken Archive of Jewish American Music .
• It is especially fitting, then, that he weigh in on the new "archival" releases of American Jewish Music by the Milken Foundation.
• com" site on the same subject: "Preservation Squall," a fascinating essay about issues raised by the Milken Archive of American Jewish music, by Paul Mitchinson.
• The review was originally posted to the Jewish-Music mailing list on Nov 13, 2003.
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• Here's something new: A "Diaspora" Jewish band making a big pop spash in Israel: The Haaretz review of Oi Va Voi's new "Laughter Through Tears", an interesting Jewish-tinged dance album that made several of last year's 10-best list here and in the UK notes: ". ... Israeli radio has not been too taken aback by the album's decidedly Jewish overtones. ... " Read more via the English-language version of Haaretz, The Jewish Cry of Joy, by Sagi Ben-Nun.
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• A Rabbi is a religious Jewish scholar who is an expert in Jewish law. ...
• The term rabbi commonly refers to the spiritual leader of a Jewish synagogue. ... A rabbi is the person to whom Jews turn for answers to questions about Jewish laws and related matters. ...
• Rabbis are given authority to make interpretations of Jewish law and custom. Today, rabbis are also pastors and supervise Jewish prayer and ritual, although these functions are not mandated by Jewish law. ...
• Non-Orthodox rabbis, on a day-to-day business basis, now spend more time on these traditionally non-rabbinic functions than they do teaching, or answering questions on Jewish law and philosophy. Within the Modern Orthodox community, rabbis still mainly deal with teaching and questions of Jewish law, but are increasingly dealing with these same pastoral functions. ...
• This idea was traditionally considered outside the bounds of Jewish theology. ...
• Traditionally, a man obtains smicha (rabbinic ordination) after the completion of an arduous learning program in the codes of Jewish law and responsa. ...
• It expands them to include the study of: Torah, Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Mishnah and Talmud, Midrash, Jewish ethics and lore, the codes of Jewish law, responsa, both traditional and modern Jewish works on theology and philosophy. ...
• The level of Jewish law, Talmud and responsa studied in four years of these denominations is similar to that learned in the first year of Orthodox Jewish seminaries. ... Emphasis is placed not on Jewish law, but rather on sociology, cultural studies, and modern Jewish philosophy. ...
• There are several possibilities for receiving rabbinic ordination in addition to seminaries maintained by the large Jewish denominations. These include seminaries maintained by smaller denominational movements, and nondenominational (also called transdenominational or postdenominational) Jewish seminaries. ...
• The Jewish Renewal movement has an ordination program, ALEPH, but no central campus. ...
• The Academy for Jewish Religion, in New York City, has, since 1956, been a rabbinic (and cantorial) seminary not affiliated with any denomination or movement. ...

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• The Jewish calendar.
• The current definition of the Jewish calendar is generally said to have been set down by the Sanhedrin president Hillel II in approximately C. ...
• The Jewish calendar is used for religious purposes by Jews all over the world, and it is the official calendar of Israel. ...
• The Jewish calendar is a combined solar/lunar calendar, in that it strives to have its years coincide with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months. This is a complicated goal, and the rules for the Jewish calendar are correspondingly fascinating. ...
• Examples are the Jewish and Chinese calendars. ...
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• What does a Jewish year look like?.
• The correct question to ask is: When does a Jewish year begin? Once you have answered that question (see below), the length of the year is the number of days between 1 Tishri in one year and 1 Tishri in the following year.
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• A Jewish-calendar day does not begin at midnight, but at either sunset or when three medium-sized stars should be visible, depending on the religious circumstance.
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•  1998 we have witnessed the start of Jewish year AM 5759.

• Orthodox Judaism is on of the three major Jewish denominations; it is characterized by: .
• Strict adherence to Halakha (codes of Jewish law). ...
• However, many Modern Orthodox Jews hold that modern forms of historical scholarship and text study may be used in some or all areas of Jewish thought. ...
• A fundamentalist (in the technical sense of the term) teaching and acceptance of Jewish principles of faith. ...
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• While insisting on strict adherence to Jewish beliefs and practices, he encouraged secular studies, including history and modern philosophy; he also encouraged limited integration into the non-Jewish community. ...
• For them, all innovations and modifications within Jewish law and custom come to a near halt. ...
• Orthodoxy, collectively, considers itself the only true heir to the Jewish tradition; most of it considers all other Jewish movements to be unacceptable deviations from tradition. ...
• Rather, each Orthodox group claims to be a non-exclusive heir to the received tradition of Jewish theology, usually affirming a literal acceptance of Maimonides's 13 principles as the only acceptable position. Some within Modern Orthodoxy take the more liberal position that these principles only represent one particular formulation of Jewish principles of faith, and that others are possible. ...
• The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (OU), and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). ...
• The Chief Rabbinate of Israel was originally founded with the intention of representing all of Judaism within the State of Israel, and has two chief rabbis: One is Ashkenazic (of the East European and Russian Jewish tradition) and one is Sephardic (of the Spanish, North African and middle-eastern Jewish tradition. ...
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• Orthodox Jews view halakha (Jewish law) as a set of rules, and principles designed to create new rules, that were literally spoken to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. ... Creativity and development in Jewish law is held to have been limited; Orthodox Jews hold that when Jewish law has developed, it almost never took into account changing political, social or economic conditions. ...
• Orthodox Judaism maintains the traditional understanding of Jewish identity. A Jew is someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converts to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law and tradition. ...

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• Hasidic Judaism (also spelled Chasidic) is an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious movement. ... Hasidic Judaism was formed in a time of persecution of the Jewish people, and in a time when European Jews had turned inward to Talmud study; many Jews at this time felt that most expressions of Jewish life had become too academic, and that they no longer had any emphasis on spirituality or joy. ...
• In Lithuania the Jewish masses were mainly gathered in densely populated towns where rabbinical academic culture (in the yeshibot) was in a flourishing state; while in the Ukraine the Jews were more scattered in villages far removed from intellectual centers. ...
• His fame as a healer spread not only among the Jews, but also among the non-Jewish peasants and the Polish nobles. ...
• He taught them that true religion was not religious scholarship, but a sincere love of God combined with warm faith and belief in the efficacy of prayer; that the ordinary man filled with a sincere belief in God, and whose prayers come from the heart, is more acceptable to God than a person versed in and fully observant of Jewish law. ...
• Hasidic Judaism came to Western Europe and then to the United States during the large waves of Jewish emigration in the 1880s. ...
• Some of the reasons for the rejection of Hasidic Judaism was a novel emphasis on different aspects of Jewish laws; even more problematic was the overwhelming exuberance of Hasidic worship; their untraditional ascriptions of infallibility and Miracle-working to their leaders, and the concern that it might become a messianic sect, which in fact had occurred among the followers of both Shabbatai Zvi and Jacob Frank. ...
• At one point Hasidic Jews were put in cherem (a Jewish form of communal excommunication); after years of bitter acrimony, there was a rapprochement between Hasidic Jews and those who would soon become known as Orthodox Jews. ...
• There has been significant revival of interest in Hasidic Judaism on the part of non-Orthodox Jews due to the writings of non-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish authors like Martin Buber, Arthur Green and Abraham Joshua Heschel. ...

• An international unarmed observer force - Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) (1) is responsible for maintaining a buffer between the Palestinian and Israeli sides (which is in control of the Jewish quarter in Hebron). ... TIPH patrols in the Jewish areas of the city were temporarily suspended after repeated confrontations with Israeli settler youths. ...
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• This cave is considered holy by both Jews and Muslims, and is site of both a Jewish shrine and a mosque. ...
• Except possibly for a few periods for which the facts are unclear, and the periods 1929-1931 and 1936-1968, there has been a significant Jewish presence in Hebron since Biblical times. In Jewish tradition, Hebron is one of the four "sacred communities" - ancient cities which were sites of Jewish religious activity. ...
• Jewish resettlement after 1967 .
• In 1979, Levinger's wife led 30 Jewish women to take over the Daboya Hospital (Beit Hadassah) in central Hebron. Before long this received Israeli government approval and further Jewish enclaves in the city were established with army assistance. This process of expansion of the Jewish presence is continuing and there are now more than 20 Jewish settlements in and around the city. ...

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• The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. ...
• In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country. ...
• This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home. ...
• The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the community of nations. ...
• In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations. ...
• On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable. ...
• This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State. ...
• Thus members and representatives of the Jews of Palestine and of the Zionist movement are here assembled on the day os the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Yisra'el and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-YISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL. ...
• WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "The State of Israel". ...
• THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. ...
• WE APPEAL to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the comity of nations. ...
• WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. ...
• WE APPEAL to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream - the redemption of Israel. ...

• Unlike most Jewish leaders, she considers both Messianic Judaism and Secular Humanistic Judaism, as well as The Order of the Lotus (which purports to be a Jewish-Buddhist synthesis) to be valid expressions of Judaism. ...

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