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Op-Ed: Carl Strock’s Israel columns are not a ‘balanced perspective’
Rabbi Matt Cutler
Rabbi Ted Lichtenfeld
Rabbi Moshe Mirsky
By RABBIS MATT CUTLER, TED LICHTENFELD, MOSHE MIRSKY
Readers of the Schenectady Daily Gazette have known its columnist Carl Strock to write controversial articles over his 30 years with the paper. Recently, Mr. Strock returned from a trip to Jerusalem and wrote a series of eight columns about his experiences. [...]
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Tagged carl strock, community, Federation, rabbi moshe, schenectady daily gazette
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Flax, Goldermans, Iselins to receive AJCC’s Pillars of the Community awards April 22
Dan Flax
Bill and Kathy Golderman
Barbara and Alan Iselin
ALBANY–The Albany Jewish Community Center (AJCC) will honor Daniel Flax, Bill and Kathy Golderman, and Alan and the late Barbara Iselin, as Pillars of the Community during the 12th annual pillars celebration at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, April 22, at Beth Emeth, 100 Academy Rd. The award recognizes individuals [...]
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Tagged Beth Emeth, community, degree, jewish community center, maryland college park
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For Yom HaAzmaut, Federation hosts ‘Israel Inside’ screening on April 23
ALBANY–To celebrate Israel’s 64th anniversary, the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York will host the regional premiere of “Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference,” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 23, at The College of St. Rose, Carl E. Touhey Forum, 1009 Madison Ave. Stephen M. Berk, professor of history at Union [...]
Yom HaShoah: Marking 25 years, March of the Living uniting survivors with liberators in Poland
PARTICIPANTS IN THE TRADITIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING start their march at the infamous gate sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) of the former Auschwitz Nazi Death Camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Monday, May 2, 2011. Thousands of people from around the world take part in the annual March of the Living paying [...]
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Tagged camp, Carrier, concentration camp inmates, majdanek concentration camp, nazi death camp
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Dance Festival to note Israel’s 64th birthday
TZAMAROT, the high school dance troupe, will perform during the 38th Annual Israeli Dance Festival on Sunday. Top row from left, Emma Rugoff, Jane Katzer, Shulamit Ornstein, Madeleine Halle, and Mollie Schwartz. Bottom row from left, Hannah Itskov, director Eve Cameron, and Shaina DeGroult-Elias.
ALBANY–The Capital Region Israeli dancers will perform at the 38th Annual [...]
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Tagged Beth Emeth, birthday, community dance program, dance, religious school program
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Dr. Peter Zaas to present Beth El’s Sobel lecture
Dr. Peter Zaas
GLENS FALLS–Footsteps in the Sands of Time: Why Jews and Christians Still Care About Ancient Judaism, a talk by Dr. Peter Zaas, will be presented at 1 p.m., Sunday, April 22, and again on Sunday, April 29, at Temple Beth El, 3 Marion Ave. The lecture is the second in the Rabbi Richard [...]
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Tagged jewish christian studies, jewish new testament, Lecture, New, oberlin college in ohio
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Can religion, especially Judaism, work if you don’t believe in God?
“OUR CONCEPT OF GOD STOPPED EVOLVING WHEN WE WERE 13,” said Jay Michaelson, a prominent Jewish writer and thinker. If you believe ‘the old man in the sky’ is idiotic, odds are you’re not going to continue believing in God as an educated adult. So our God concept needs to grow up like we do.”
By ERIC [...]
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Tagged alain de botton, american judaism, identity, JAY MICHAELSON, percent
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Rozett to read from ‘When People Wrote Letters’ April 25
ALBANY–Martha Rozett, University at Albany English professor, will read from her new nonfiction book When People Wrote Letters: A Family Chronicle (2011) at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 25, in the Standish Room, Science Library, on the University at Albany uptown campus, 1400 Washington Ave. The event is sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute [...]
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‘From Fear to Friendship’ at Nassau Synagogue April 26
Pastor Robert Shepitka (left) and Rabbi Yaakov Kellman
NASSAU–From Fear to Friendship: Conversations with Pastor Robert Shepitka and Rabbi Yaakov Kellman will be presented at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 26, at the Nassau Synagogue on Route 20.
Shepitka and Kellman will discuss Israel and the Middle East, Understanding Our Common Ground/Respecting Our Differences, and Our Friendship: Past, [...]
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Tagged April, Friendship, jewish educational resources, nerenberg, vaad hakashruth
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‘Earth Day Bouquet’ piano recital at SJCC April 22
Maz Lifchitz
SCHENECTADY–Earth Day Bouquet, a piano recital with Max Lifchitz, the last in this season’s Schenectady Jewish Community Center’s Music at the J Concert Series, will be presented at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 22, at the Center, 2565 Balltown Rd.
Lifchitz will perform music by Jewish composers including Aaron Copland’s El Salon Mexico, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody [...]
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