September 2011
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The Forward - The Celtic Jewish Connection (Music) →
You can love Irish songs, and you can love Yiddish songs. Irish chanteuse Susan McKeown and Klezmatics bandleader Lorin Sklamberg encourage you to love them both — at once.
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Early Celtic Christianity and First Century... →
The preservation of Jewish traditions was a common feature in Christian societies which were outside the Roman Empire, and therefore somewhat immune to reforms which took place after Constantine’s conversion.
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Jews of Many Colors - Intermarriage, conversion... →
European Jewish immigrants and their descendants certainly benefited from the privileges that came to them in American society by being seen as white, but those privileges came with significant costs for Jewish group identity because they placed limits on the expression of Jewish distinctiveness. Today, an American Jewish community that increasingly includes people of color has the...
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Rare Jewish-Indian Haggadah found in Salford →
A rare Jewish text, published for the “Black Jews of India” in the 19th Century, has been discovered in a garage sale in Salford.
The 137-year-old Poona Haggadah, used by the Bene Israel community at Passover, was found by University of Manchester historian, Dr Yaakov Wise.
He said he paid a “substantial” fee after recognising it at the sale.
“I knew it was a...
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Prayer, and Bug Juice, at a Summer Camp for Jews... →
“If there’s Christians of all colors and all kinds, and Muslims of all colors and all kinds,” Amalia, 11, said over Shabbat lunch, “then why would Jewishness be any different?”
One of her fellow campers, Josh Rowen-Keran, 14, who was born to black and Korean parents and then adopted by an interracial couple in the Bay Area, sounded similarly nonchalant. “Being Jewish isn’t looking a ...
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Ziggy Marley: I'm jealous of Jewish culture →
Ahead of upcoming performances in Israel, Bob Marley’s son talks about Jewish holidays he celebrates with his Israeli wife (‘I love it’), his new cartoon character – ‘Marijuanaman’, and his father’s legacy
August 2011
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Celtic Judaism is back
Hello, I haven’t seen you in a while. About 3 years, to be exact. Well, I’m just as Irish and Jewish as ever so I decided I’m going to try to start blogging regularly on Tumblr and see if that makes things easier. A full-scale WordPress blog can be intimidating when you’re posting about quick little things like this blog is meant to be about.
P.S. I let the domain expire...
January 2009
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Pro-Israel Rally in NYC
Rally in support of Israel’s war in Gaza in NYC
Photo is by Dan Sieradski of the rally for Israel in New York on January 6th 2009, he has even more on Flickr, as well.
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Christian Privilege in America
I don’t know if there’s anything more eye-opening than converting to another religion (or none at all) and becoming a non-Christian in America. Roughly 80% of America self-identifies as Christian. As a result, most aspects of life in America are dictated by Christianity.
You tell someone that you are Jewish, and that comes with a set of questions but no big deal. Tell someone that you...
December 2008
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Upcoming Jewish Films for 12/08
There will be two films with Jewish interest released in the US during the end of December:
I hadn’t heard of Defiance until a week or two ago when I stumbled across a book of the same title, which boasted how it was now a major motion picture. “In WWII Russia, Jewish refugees band together into a brigade that hides in the forest, ambushes Germans and survives until war’s end,...
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G-dcast Rocks!
Please cut me some slack! I am very late to the game— I just discovered G-dcast tonight. I’d heard about it across various Jewish blogs, but I figured I wouldn’t like it. (I hate audio/visual presentations and favor the written word.) I was totally wrong, it’s really neat.
The premise is to cover the Torah portion in 4 minutes. I know it sounds like that wouldn’t be...
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Parents Name Child After Hitler
Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, have named their three young children JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, and Adolf Hitler Campbell. Yes, for real. Even though they’ve gotten their birthday cakes from Wal-Mart for two years previous, they decided to expand their horizons. However, ShopRite refused to personalize a birthday cake for young Adolf Hitler.
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"Israeli Victims Bore the Maximum Torture Marks"
During the time I spent streaming CNN-IBN and CNN International online to get up-to-the-minute information on the Mumbai attacks, I had a bad feeling about the people in the Chabad House. After looking at the pictures of the aftermath, it was sickening, but not surprising, to hear that the terrorists had treated the Jewish victims terribly:
“Bombay has a long history of terror. I have seen...
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Obama Family's Jewish Ties
I hadn’t heard of this earlier, but I could also just be the last person to find out: President-elect Barack Obama’s cousin-in-law is an African-American Jewish rabbi, Capers Funnye. I really like one of his quotes in the article:
“I often like to tell new people that when you start studying Judaism, every time you get a new book, every time you learn something new, it should...
Coordinate a Kippah with a Kilt
Not Irish, but could possibly be “Celtic” in a stretch of the definition: a Tartan kippah! Tartan being the plaid fabric you see on Scottish kilts. 100% Scottish wool woven in Scotland.
November 2008
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Amy Rule's Conversion
Some commentors at FailedMessiah are questioning the conversion to Judaism prior to their wedding of Rahm Emanuel’s wife, Amy Rule. They are of the “if it’s not Orthodox, it doesn’t count” approach towards conversion. Given that Rahm Emanuel and his family are active members of a Modern-Orthodox synagogue, with children attending a Jewish day school, you’d think there wouldn’t be any doubt....
October 2008
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In The Beginning
Last week’s Torah portion, Parashat Bereshit, is the beginning of the Torah. It is somewhat fitting that last week I stepped up and registered the domain name and began this blog (finally).