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This counterpart to The Torah: A Modern Commentary gives a new perspective on women in the Torah. A Women's Commentary is a scholarly work, written by Jewish women, that gives voices to the women in the Torah and gives a woman's perspective on these classical stories. The book began as a WRJ project in 1992 and was published in 2008 with URJ Press.
Existing records of a Jewish presence in Afghanistan date back to the 7th century CE, [3] although ancient Iranian tradition holds that there was a Jewish presence in Afghanistan as early as the time of Israel and Judah. There are also origin theories among some Pashtuns that claim their descent from the Ten Lost Tribes of the Israelites.
Tova Moradi, 83, an Afghan Jewish woman who fled Kabul this month with relatives with the assistance of an Israeli aid group, speaks to the Associated Press at a resort which is accommodated ...
[137] [138] In Mishkan T'filah, the American Reform Jewish prayer book released in 2007, references to God as "He" have been removed, and whenever Jewish patriarchs are named (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), so also are the matriarchs (Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah.) [139] In 2015 the Reform Jewish High Holy Days prayer book Mishkan HaNefesh was ...
With the new film Bread and Roses streaming now on Apple TV+, Lawrence, 34, and Yousafzai, 27, turned the camera over to Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani to collect footage of women Mani knew in ...
When the United States military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the Taliban immediately retook control over the country, Jennifer Lawrence had an idea. She sought out a female Afghan ...
Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.
In 1999, Buchdahl was invested as a cantor, and in 2001, she was ordained as a rabbi [10] by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, a seminary for Reform Judaism. [11] She was the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, [ 12 ] and the first Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan (cantor) anywhere in the world.