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Judaism Articles from About.comArab Man Convicted of Rape By Deception (Jul 23, 2010 10:15 AM)On Monday the Jerusalem District Court sentenced 30-year-old Sabar Kashour to 18-months in prison after he told a Jewish woman that he too was Jewish before they had consensual sex. When it was later revealed that Kashour was a married Arab man the woman called the police. The case ended up in court where Kashour was convicted of rape and ordered to pay NIS 10,000 (about $2,800) to the woman as compensation. Judge Tzvi Segal said that the situation was not a case of "classical rape by force," but added that if the woman "hadn't thought the accused was a Jewish bachelor interested in a serious romantic relationship, she would not have cooperated." Kashour's sentence has prompted some to ask: Since when has consensual sex by deceit been rape? "If any married man who has ever lied in order to get sex would be charged with rape, there would be no room in our prisons," wrote Sima Kadmon, who later added, "What if someone... told a woman that he is a wealthy single man, while he was in fact poor and married? Would he too be convicted of rape?" Gideon Levy, a liberal Israeli commentator, has also taken issue with the verdict, saying : "I would like to raise only one question with the judge. What if this guy had been a Jew who pretended to be a Muslim and had sex with a Muslim woman?" What do you think about this case? And if he were Jewish? [Ynet] Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew [Gaurdian] Arab Man Convicted of Rape By Deception originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 10:15:12. Permalink | Comment | Email this Jews Offered $50K to Move to Alabama Town (Jul 21, 2010 9:31 PM) The town of Dothan, Alabama is offering Jewish families $50,000 to move to the town in an effort to revive a once thriving Jewish community. "Dothan was just like so many small towns in the South that had thriving Jewish communities in the 1800s and the 1900s," said Rob Goldsmith , who runs the Family Relocation Project, but since then the Jewish population has withered and synagogue members are mostly elderly. Enter Larry Blumberg, a Dothan native who runs more than 60 hotels. He suggested the town convince 20 young families to move to the Alabama town, offering 1 million dollars in incentive funds that would equal $50,000 per family. "It's a pretty interesting idea," says Dr. Stuart Rockoff , head of the history department at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Miss. "Dothan is a pretty small community, and if they are even able to attract a handful of Jewish families it is going to have a transformative effect on the congregation." So far Goldsmith has met with seven families. Three of them have moved to Alabama and three out of the other four are seriously interested in transplating their lives to Dothan. Any other takers? $50,000 offered to Jewish families to move to Alabama town [National Post] Jews Offered $50K to Move to Alabama Town originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 21:31:31. Permalink | Comment | Email this NaziSexyMouse (Jul 18, 2010 8:49 PM) According to a recent article on the Huffington Post , "a huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse's image with that of a swastika and a nude woman's body is causing a stir in Poland." The poster is artist Max Papeschi's interpretation of the "'horrors' of the American lifestyle" and is displayed near a synagogue as part of an art exhibit opening in the fall. Although the piece has angered many and even been vandalized twice, lawmakers have decided that the poster - titled "NaziSexyMouse" - does not violate Poland's laws against glorifying the Nazi party. Mickey Mouse With Nazi Symbol Causes Anger In Poland [Huffington Post] NaziSexyMouse originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 20:49:07. Permalink | Comment | Email this Rotem Bill Decides: Who Is a Jew? (Jul 16, 2010 9:51 PM) Earlier this week a Knesset committee advanced the Rotem Conversion Bill, which proposes to give the Orthodox rabbinate control of all conversions in Israel - and, by extension, control over Jewish births, marriages and deaths. If passed, the bill would undermine the authority of rabbis from the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel, where they have already been struggling for recognition. "[This bill] sets us back 20 years" said Rabbi Steven Wernick , executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, adding that the bill "delegitimizes most of North American Jewry" and raises the issue of "who has the authority to determine someone's Jewish identity." Alana Newhouse summarized the situation in a recent New York Times article titled "The Diaspora Need Not Apply," writing: If passed, this legislation would place authority... in the hands of a small group of ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, rabbis... not only dividing Israeli society but threatening to sever the vital connection between Israel and the American Jewish diaspora. The problem is... that the beliefs of a tiny minority of the world's Jews are on the verge of becoming the Israeli government's definition of Judaism, for all Jews.... ...If this bill passes, future historians will inevitably wonder why, at a critical moment in its history, Israel chose to tell 85 percent of the Jewish diaspora that their rabbis weren't rabbis and their religious practices were a sham, the conversions of their parents and spouses were invalid, their marriages weren't legal under Jewish law, and their progeny were a tribe of bastards unfit to marry other Jews. Many Conservative and Reform rabbis have been emailing their congregations to make them aware of this bill and in the hopes that its passage can be prevented. The Masorti website even has a form letter that can be filled out and sent to Benjamin Netanyahu requesting that he intervene. For more information about this bill, check out the following articles: Israel considers restricting citizenship for some who convert to Judaism [Washington Post] Are You Jewish Enough? [Jewish Journal] The Diaspora Need Not Apply [New York Times] Alienating the Diaspora [Jerusalem Post] Rotem Bill Decides: Who Is a Jew? originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 21:51:27. Permalink | Comment | Email this I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz (Jul 13, 2010 1:29 PM) BoingBoing recently linked to this video of a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren dancing to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" at various concentration camps and Holocaust memorials in Europe. "This dance is a tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit and a celebration of life," reads the introductory text for the video, "Despite the systematic brutality and cruelty endured, we have still survived. As BoingBoing notes, the comments on this video are split between those who are offended and those who love it. What do you think? Is this video disrespectful or a profound statement about surviving the horrors of the Holocaust? I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 13:29:25. Permalink | Comment | Email this WoW Leader Arrested for Reading From the Torah (Jul 13, 2010 1:17 PM) Women of the Wall (WoW) leader Anat Hoffman was arrested in Jerusalem yesterday for carrying a Torah scroll while praying at the Western Wall. Dozens of women met at the wall to commemorate the beginning of the month of Av, however, by carrying a Torah scroll Hoffman violated a court order prohibiting women from reading Torah at the Western Wall. "This is another example of the ultra-Orthodox establishment imposing its stances on the public," a spokeswoman for the group said in a recent Forward article. According to ultra-Orthodox Judaism, women are not allowed to read from the Torah. Hoffman's arrest was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube . The video shows an officer standing behind Hoffman and steering her towards a waiting car while she was attempting to participate in the WoW prayer service. It also shows the WoW women being called "Insane people" (by another women, presumably ultra-Orthodox) and enduring shouts of "Shame on you!" while they prayed. An interview with the Forward's Sisterhood blog shares Hoffman's experience: The police took it upon themselves to reinterpret the Supreme Court ruling - and that is a very dangerous development. It's a slippery slope. Today they say women cannot hold the Torah. Tomorrow it will be, women cannot look at the Torah. Then it will be women cannot be at the Kotel at all. Before you know it, all of Jerusalem will be segregated. That is where we are headed. Previous About.com blog posts about Women of the Wall : Israeli Woman Arrested for Wearing Prayer Shawl Female Worshipers Called "Nazis" at the Kotel Women of the Wall Leader Interrogated by Police WoW Leader Arrested for Reading From the Torah originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 13:17:31. Permalink | Comment | Email this Reflections: Parsha HaShevuah (Parashat Matot-Masei) (Jul 8, 2010 12:04 PM) Every week my friend Barbara Sofer shares a reflection about the parsha ha'shevuah (weekly Torah portion) on her Facebook page. They always give me something to think about so I asked her if I could share some of them with you and she graciously gave me permission. Barbara is an award-winning writer and lecturer who writes a bi-weekly column for the Friday Jerusalem Post . Below is her reflection this week as well as a link to our Torah portion: Parashat Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2 - 36:13). Reflection : We complete the Book of Numbers in synagogue this Shabbat. In Hebrew it is called Ba'Midbar - "in the wilderness" - but the word also comes from the Hebrew word meaning "to talk" (midaber). This is internal dialogue, not chat, facilitated by the awe of that wilderness. A dialogue to continue. Parsha : Click here to read Parashat Matot-Masei on JTS's website . Reflections: Parsha HaShevuah (Parashat Matot-Masei) originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 12:04:17. Permalink | Comment | Email this Israeli Soldiers Dance to Ke$ha in Hebron (Jul 7, 2010 12:44 PM) A video of Israeli soldiers dancing to Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" was posted on YouTube over the weekend, where it quickly went viral before being removed. It has since reappeared and shows six soldiers breaking into a choreographed dance routine while on patrol in Hebron. Originally posted under the title "Battalion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah," the re-posted video is titled "It's easy to laugh at the occupation when you're the oppressor (and a douchebag)." The video is part of a growing trend where soldiers produce cover versions of pop songs and post them to the internet, as these American soldiers did to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Telephone." However, as Haaretz points out , usually these videos are produced on base instead of while the soldiers are on patrol. Reactions to the Israeli video have ranged from amusement to "disdain for the sight of soldiers dancing in an occupied Palestinian street." One Jezebel commenter remarked that the film was apparently shot during the Muslim call to prayer and hence was doubly inappropriate. According to Haaretz , the soldiers involved will likely be punished for improper conduct, though The Huffington Post claims commanders have "shrugged off" the incident as a "stunt." You can view the video on YouTube by clicking here . What do you think about it? Israeli Soldiers Dance to Ke$ha in Hebron originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 12:44:43. Permalink | Comment | Email this I Was There In Color (Jul 4, 2010 10:57 PM) A colleague recently forwarded a video to me with excerpts from a November 2009 documentary titled "I Was There in Color." The documentary is composed of footage captured by Fred Monosson, a Bostonian who traveled to Israel in 1947 with a then high-tech camera able to film in color. He later returned to the United States and stored the reels of 16mm film in his attic, where they stayed until his son accidentally discovered them years after his death. He was about to throw them away but mentioned the color footage to an Israeli director who realized how unique the home movies were: until they were discovered, images of Israel from this era only existed in black and white. Monosson's son saved the film and it was eventually made into "I Was There in Color." According to the Facebook page for the documentary, "the material revealed a passionate love story between Monosson and the new Jewish State." You can view the video that was sent to me by clicking here . It shows a remarkable glimpse into Israel's past - from people dancing in circle formation and children on swings, to soldiers and images of Jerusalem in ruins. Additional footage can be found on YouTube here . I Was There In Color originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Sunday, July 4th, 2010 at 22:57:30. Permalink | Comment | Email this Reflections: Parsha HaShevuah (Parashat Pinchas) (Jul 2, 2010 8:53 PM) Every week my friend Barbara Sofer shares a reflection about the parsha ha'shevuah (weekly Torah portion) on her Facebook page. They always give me something to think about so I asked her if I could share some of them with you and she graciously gave me permission. Barbara is an award-winning writer and lecturer who writes a bi-weekly column for the Friday Jerusalem Post . Below is her reflection this week as well as a link to our Torah portion: Parashat Pinchas (Numbers 25:10 - 30:1). Reflection : In this week's parsha the women Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirza are mentioned by name when they ask about receiving their father's inheritance. Once again, Biblical heroines are those who speak up and question... activist role models for all of us. Parsha : Click here to read Parashat Pinchas on HebCal . Reflections: Parsha HaShevuah (Parashat Pinchas) originally appeared on About.com Judaism on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at 20:53:36. Permalink | Comment | Email this  |
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