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How Young Is Too Young To Get Married?
By
Brad Hirschfield
A trend that was until recently limited to the Hasidic world, is emerging in other parts of the Jewish community. It involves the age at which people are getting married. And it translates into kids (yes, i know thta’s my bias showing) marrying younger and younger. As recent coverage in Haaretz indicates, 17 and 18…
New Music, But Is It Jewish? Is It Even New?
By
Brad Hirschfield
There is tons of “new” music being produced and presented as “new Jewish music”, but is it either? Can it be considered “new” when it it draws so heavily and obviously on traditional Jewish music? And what makes music, or any art for that matter, “Jewish”? Are music and art Jewish because they are made…
Cursing Jews in the Name of God
By
Brad Hirschfield
According to the guests gathered in a Great Neck, Long Island home who came together to celebrate a little girl’s first birthday, Rabbi Mordechai Aderet stormed in to the party and rained down curses like an ancient biblical prophet. Sharon Udasin of the New York Jewish Week describes the scene as follows: ‘After “shrieking Hebrew…
Intermarriage and Proselytizing in Judaism
By
Brad Hirschfield
This morning’s press release from the 121st meeting of the Central Conference of Reform Rabbis made me smile. Whatever one thinks about the substance of their statement on intermarriage, there are lessons there for all of us – lessons about keeping things in perspective and appreciating that even the most radical things often become entirely…
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