Resources on Jewish Identity

March 12, 2021
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For continued reading:

Havdalah: A Celebration of Difference by Rabbi Leila Gal Berner

A Ritual for Returning to Judaism by Rabbi Michael Ragozin

Mi Sheberakh Blessing of Appreciation for People of Different Identities by Rabbi Maurice Harris and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Reconstructing Yiddishkeit by Rabbi Ben Weiner in Zeek Magazine

Judaism as a Generation: Kaplan, Levi-Strauss, and Why I Believe in the Jewish Future by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin in Zeek Magazine

A New Model for Jewish Identity by Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard

Those People, Over There by Michael Chabon

Report on InterfaithFamily’s 2017 Survey on Rabbinic Officiation for Interfaith Couples

A question of identity: the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, and photographer’s encounter with a community whose roots go back 1,400 years by Lucy Morgan

Fiddler on the Roof and Trump’s Executive Order by Rabbi Deborah Waxman

My Jewish Sons Have a Christmas Tree, and I Need to Deal by Hanna Ingber

Yiddisher Black Cantors by Renee Ghert-Zand

Who is a Jew at this time of demographic disruption?

https://vimeo.com/379038822

Watch Rabbi Shelly Goldman lead a discussion of the essay by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEZ_c2ftrg

Rabbi Malka Packer on interfaith families

https://soundcloud.com/jewtoo/episode-9

Listen to more episodes of Jew, Too here.

So Many Ways to Be Jewish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-S4yc97OX0

Rabbi Marley Weiner

https://soundcloud.com/jewishrecon/episode-2-rainbow-tallit-baby-interview-with-aurora-mendelsohn

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