Rejecting the inward and conservative turn of the American Jewish Congress and other organizations, as well as alliances with Far Right politicians, the Progressive Jewish Alliance locates itself with the Jewish Fund for Justice, Jewish Women Watching, Brit Tzedek, and countless other organizations in real or cyberspace: they explicitly link their Jewishness to left/liberal activism, claiming Jewish values, the American Jewish community, the American
shul, for that activism.
This was partly because he had been ill, indeed dying, for many years; I became aware that he was failing in 1990, when for the first time in our lives it was he and not I who proposed leaving
shul "early." Also, he kept returning to the subject of kaddish, albeit from two different directions.
Soon-to-be First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her family will be joining TheSHUL of the Nation's Capital, a synagogue run by international Jewish community organization Chabad; among the
Shul's congregants are former Senator Joe Lieberman and current Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew.
Staged at the unusual and historic Stanton Street
Shul, this exquisite production features the striking set design of Olia Rogova.
We were a group of teens sitting on the front steps of the
shul when the rabbi walked by.
Rabbi Shalom Dovber Lipskar of The
Shul of Bal Harbour and the Aleph Institute of Miami and Professor Herman Branover of B'Or HaTorah were the founding organizers of the first conference in 1987.
The Solihull
Shul, on Monastery Drive, Solihull, has three Torah scrolls but they are all more than 100 years old and in desperate need of repair.
Among the features of the site are: a
shul finder, a mikvah finder, online mortgage applications and a one-of-a kind home finder that allows visitors to search by price location and house details.
It surely would have been for my mother, the only black mom at my
shul and a lapsed Catholic who dutifully made hand-grated latkes from her mother-in-law's recipe while Jewish moms shamelessly brought in Ore-Ida.
These include learning Torah in the name of their loved one; helping others; praying and saying Psalms; giving a Dvar Torah in
shul, at home or among friends; and giving tzedaka (charity) in the name of a loved one.