Rebecca Kaplan Boroson
Yiddish on my mind
Reform looks at ways to reinvent the movement
‘A way to reclaim kashrut in a broader context’
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, who contributed a chapter on eating fish to “The Sacred Table,” has a “holistic sense of kashrut.”
“Many people across the religious spectrum,” he explained, “are trying to figure out how to blend traditionally held beliefs about kashrut with a modern understanding of the industrial food system … and to what extent we can and should expand our conception of kashrut to include the way our food is raised and the way it gets to us.”
Reform looks at ways to reinvent the movement
‘We are obligated to take care of and enjoy our bodies’
Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick’s contribution to “The Sacred Table” is about eating disorders.
This is not the first time she has written on the subject. In the late 1990s, when she was an intern in the Reform movement’s department of Jewish Family Concerns, “eating disorders were quite prevalent in our congregations and I was asked to contribute to a manual about them.”
Called “Litapayach Tikvah: Nourishing Hope,” it is subtitled “Eating Disorders: Perceptions and Perspectives in Jewish Life Today” and was disseminated to Reform congregations and used at workshops at synagogues and the movement’s biennial conference. It is still available online at rjyouthworker.urg.org also see EatingDisorders.)
Highly recommended: Program on Nazi-looted art
Fascinating forum on the same-sex elephant in the room
JNF calls for donations as wildfires rage across Israel
Jewish community responds to the Israeli wildfires
David Gad-Harf, associate executive vice president and chief operating officer of UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey, sent this message on Friday, Dec. 3, to various community leaders:
As I’m sure you know, devastating fires struck Israel yesterday in the Haifa region. I want to report to you on the steps UJA Federation is immediately taking to rally our community in order to provide needed support to Israel. We seek your help in spreading the word, so our Jewish community will respond quickly and vigorously.
