Your Jewish Neighborhood

Your Jewish Neighborhood

Your Jewish Neighborhood is a weekly podcast from Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, California. Each week, your host, Michele Holtz, will introduce you to clergy, educators, and other leaders from Temple Isaiah who will explore issues and topics of general interest to affiliated and unaffiliated Jews and anyone interested in the Reform Jewish movement. We hope you'll feel welcome here!

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October 21, 2012 20 mins

In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, we are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services.

This installment features the Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Judy Shanks.

Please be sure to visit our offici...

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In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, we are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services.

This installment features the Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Judy Shanks.

Please be sure to visit our offici...

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In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services.

This installment features the Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Roberto Graetz.

Please be sure to visit our official ho...

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In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, we are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services.

This installment features the Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Judy Shanks.

Please be sure to visit our official home on at the web at:
www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org

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This week's links:

Yizkor, the Memorial Service, from My Jewish Learning
Yizkor, from Jewish Virtual Library
Yizkor: Just the Basics, from My Kaddish
The Yizkor Book Project
Yizkor: Online Yahrzeit Reminder & Memorials, from ORT
Video: Yizkor for Martyrs, a memorial concert by David Chevan 

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Havdalah, from the Jewish Virtual Library
Havdalah: Taking Leave of Shabbat, from My Jewish Learning
The Magic of Havdalah
Havdalah Blessings
The Havdalah Ceremony: Distinctions and origins
Making Havdalah Simply (video)

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This week's links:

Hebrew Project Wiki
Hebrew Language, resources from the University of Texas at Austin
Hebrew Blackboard, Hebrew teaching resources
What Happened to 'Hebrew' in Hebrew School?
Expriment in Congregational Education
The Jewish Education Project

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Anti-Defamation League
What is Anti-Semitism?, from the ADL
Anti-Semitic violence doubled in 2009, from the Jerusalem Post
The shocking statistics ab out anti-Semitism in America, YouTube video
FBI's 2010 hate crime statistics from ACoordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism
Public educatio...

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Chanukah, from the Jewish Virtual Library
Rabbis shed light on Chanukah's importance, from the Palm Beach Daily News
The Meaning of Chanukah, from Being Jewish
Eight Days of Chanukah -- What's the Spiritual Significance, from aJudaica.com
Judaism 101: Chanu...

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This weeks links:

The URJ's Campaign for Youth Engagement
Jewish Parents: how to Get Teens to Keep Engaged After 13, from Radical parenting
Preventing Post B'nai Mitzvah Dropout-itis, from Reform Judaism Online
Study Finds 'Man Crisis' in Liberal Jewish Circles
Keeping Our Kids on the Derech, an Orthodox perspect...

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This week's links:

The apocalypse in Judaism from Jewish Encyclopedia
Apocalypse Then, from Reform Judaism magazine
Revelation/Apocalypse vs. Torah Prophesies? Apocalyptic Literature in the Old Testament and Early Judaism, a bibliography Apocalypses and the Apocalypse, from Messianic Jewish Musings
Jewish End of Days, a blog dedicated...

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