Your Jewish Neighborhood

Your Jewish Neighborhood is Temple Isaiah's weekly podcast. For episodes 1-37, please visit the original podcast home.

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks recounts her experience in Jerusalem praying with the Women of the Wall.

This week’s links:

• Women of the Wall
• Women of the Wall blog
• The Women of the Wall, Twenty Years On, from Jewcy
• Wikipedia listing for Women of the Wall
• Women of the Wall coverage by Israel Religious Action Center

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Content Summary Rabbi Nicki Greninger discusses how Temple Isaiah is integrating study of Jewish music into the religious school curriculum.

This week’s links:

• Jewish Music Blog from Hebrew College
• New Jewish Education music archive
• The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
• Teruah Jewish Music blog

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Content Summary Rabbi Nicki Greninger discusses various Jewish philosophies about addressing death with children.

This week’s links:

• URJ Q&A on Talking to Children About Death
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Death, from the Jewish Journal
• Helping Children of Different Ages Cope with Death, from My Jewish Learning
• When children experience dath, from Mishpacha (a virtual community for Jewish families) From “Ask the Reform Rabbi,” How can I explain death to my Jewish grandhcild?

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Content Summary Rabbi Nicki Greninger discusses various Jewish philosophies about addressing death with children.

This week’s links:

• URJ Q&A on Talking to Children About Death
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Death, from the Jewish Journal
• Helping Children of Different Ages Cope with Death, from My Jewish Learning
• When children experience dath, from Mishpacha (a virtual community for Jewish families) From “Ask the Reform Rabbi,” How can I explain death to my Jewish grandhcild?

Welcome to “Your Jewish Neighborhood,” a podcast by Temple Isaiah with your host, Michele Holtz.

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest on the the first public reading of the Torah and some of the rituals that have evolved over time.

This week’s links:

• The rules of Torah reading
• Judaism 101’s Torah listing
• The Written Law, from the Jewish Virtual Library
• Writing the Torah, from the aish.com “Jewish Literacy” site

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest on the eco-kasrhut movement, bringing modern environmental and ethical sensibilities to kosher laws.

This week’s links:

• From My Jewish Learning, Eco-Kashrut: Environmental Standards for What and How We Eat
• Eco-kashrut: A new way of eating Jewishly
• Self-Sufficiency Sundays, progressive Judaism blog posts to inspire eco-kashrut behaviors
• Eco-kashrut category from The Jew & The Carrot
• Eco-Kashrut: You Are What You Eat, from Virtual Talmud

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Content Summary Minnesota-based klezmer-fusion band Klezmerica offers three tracks from a live album: Mishegass, Simchat Torah, and Hava Nagilah.

This week’s links:

• Klezmerica website
• Download free music from Klezmerica
• Klezmerica on MySpace
• A review of Klezmerica
• Klezmer listing from Wikipedia
• The Mighty Kleztones, Temple Isaiah’s youth klezmer band

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz explains the origins and traditions of daily prayers and blessings.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia’s List of Jewish Prayers and Blessings
• Prayers and Blessings from Judaism 101
• Daily Blessings from Siddur.org
• Sitting Shivah, from the Judaica Guide
• Havdalah, from the Virtual Jewish Library

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz considers the role of Jewish community during times such as the current economic downturn.

This week’s links:

• URJ’s Rabbi Eric Yoffe on the current economy crisis
• From URJ: Synagogues, Rabbis and the Financial Crisis: Comments to the Union Board
• Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do?” from Time Magazine

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah Youth Director Dan Lange explains the dimensions of his job and how he weaves Judaism into youth activities.

This week’s links:

• NITY, National Federation of Temple Youth.
• NFTY on Facebook
• Jewish youth organizations from About.com
• LAFTY, Lafayette (California) Temple Youth
• Temple Isaiah’s Camp Kefli
• Simcha, Temple Isiaah’s 5-6th grade group
• Anachnu, Temple Isaiah’s 7-8th grade group
• Noar Night, Temple Isaiah’s Teen School

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest discusses the role of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism (RAC) and recounts last month’s trip by Temple Isaiah high schoolers to a weekend hosted by RAC followed by a visit to Capitol Hill.

This week’s links:

• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• Wikipedia listing for Rabbi David Saperstein
• RAC blog
• Rabbi Saperstein’s recent Huffington Post column, “Our Rights in Peril: The Future of the Courts”

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Content Summary Resident Temple Isaiah foodie (and stalwart volunteer) Susan Lieber leads a mouth-watering tour of Jewish delicatessens and deli foods

This week’s links:

• Jewish delicatessens, the Wikipedia listing
• Everything you always wanted to know about Jewish delis, from Kosmix.com
• 10 great places to nosh on authentic Jewish deli food, 2006 article from USA Today
• Save the Deli, a site dedicated to the preservation of Jewish delis
• Brent’s Delicatessen & Restaurant in Los Angeles
• Stage Delicatessen, New York
• Carnegie Deli, New York
• Katz’s Delicatessen, New York
• 2nd Ave. Deli, New York

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Nicki Greninger recounts her path to becoming a Rabbi, including making the decision and the work involved.

This week’s links:

• Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner discusses becoming a Rabbi on About.com
• Hebrew Union College, the Reform movement seminary
• How to Become a Rabbi, from eHow.com
• Rabbi: Teacher, Preacher, Judge—But Not Priest, from MyJewishLearning.com

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Judy Shanks offers a simple approach to incorporating Jewish spiritual practices into your day-to-day life.

This week’s links:

• Prayer upon waking, from Wikipedia
• Chesed explained, from aish.com
• Various prayers for eating
• A Book of Life, from Amazon.com

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Cantor Leigh Korn explains the origins, traditions, and practices associated with Kashrut, or keeping Kosher.

This week’s links:

• Kosher Dietary Laws from Judaism 101
• The world’s best known Kosher trademark
• Kosher database
• Kashrut.com, “the premier Kosher information source on the Internet”
• Kosher Cooking (recipes)

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Judy Shanks discusses Mi Shebeirach and other prayers for healing that are included in various services.

This week’s links:

• Mi Sheberakh: May the One Who Blessed, from MyJewishLearning.com
• Jewish Healing, “Your place for healing on the Internet,” from JewishLink
• Jewish Healing Prayer on YouTube from Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg
• Healing Prayers, Poems, and Meditations, Chapter IV from “The Mitzvah of Healing” by Hara Person
• Download a free copy of MiShebeirach by Debbie Friedman (click the “healing work” link)

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s librarian, Val Morehouse, selects Arthur A. Levine’s “All the Lights in the Night” for this Chanukah reading from Temple Isaiah’s library, the largest Jewish library in the San Francisco East Bay.

This week’s links:

• A Conversation with Arthur A. Levine
• Reviews of "All the Lights in the Night"
• Amazon.com listing for "All the Lights in the Night
• All Arthur E. Levine books from Amazon.com

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Content Summary We stand on our toes, rock forward and backward, bow, and even prostrate ourselves. Just what are all these physical movements that accompany our prayers? Cantor Leigh Korn explains it all.

This week’s links:

• Let’s Schmooze about Davening
• Jewish Liturgy from Judaism 101, including a section on bowing
• Rite and Reason passage on standing on your toes for “Kadosh” (a Google book search result)
• AskMoses.com answers a question about motions during “Oseh Shalom”

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Content Summary Executive Director Donna Waldman and Clinic Director Deborah Roberts provide details about the Sonoma County-based Jewish Community Free Clinic.

This week’s links:

• Jewish Community Free Clinic
• 2002 J article on Jewish Community Free Clinic
• MetroActive article on the clinic
• KCBS coverage of the clinic

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Content Summary A Women’s Torah Commentary was released in 2007. Rabbi Judy Shanks explains its significance and reads passages.

This week’s links:

• Official site of Women’s Torah Commentary
• Why a women’s Torah commentary? from the Jerusalem Post
• Review of Women’s Torah Commentary from United Jewish Communities
• Reform Voices of Torah, weekly online Torah commentary from URJ
• Rabbinic literature from Wikipedia

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz attended the Congress of Latin America’s Progressive and Liberal Reform Jews in Rio de Janiero this past summer. In this episode of “Your Jewish Neighborhood,” he recounts his experience at the conference and talks at the state of Reform Judaism in South America.

This week’s links:

• Progressive Judaism, Wikipedia listing
• World Union for Progressive Judaism
• Virtual Jewish History Tour of Latin America
• Union of Jewish Congregations in Latin America and the Caribbean

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With Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur approaching quickly, Your Jewish Neighborhood is taking the week off from new production and offering a repeat of episode #111 from this time last year, when we offered two extremely different Yom Kippur musical offerings.

Content Summary Classical violinist Alexander Skwortsow performs Kol Nidre; jam-rock band Phish performs Avinu Malkeinu

This week’s links:

• Alexander Skwortsow
• Phish
• Free downloadable Skworstow recordings
• Avinu Maleinu from HebrewSongs.com
• MyJewishLearning.com on Avinu Malkeinu
• Kol Nidre from JewishEncyclopedia.com
• Kol Nidre from HebrewSongs.com
• Cantor Leigh Korn discusses Kol Nidre in YJN episode #57 from about this time last year

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Content Summary How does a rabbi prepare for the High Holy Days? Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Judy Shanks offers her personal perspective.

This week’s links:

• Prophet, Priest or Pastor: The Rabbi on the High Holy Days, 2004 article by Rabbi Barry H. Block
• For Rabbis, the High Holy Days Demand Sermons That Soar, 1999 New York Times article
• A Different Kind of Kosher Sermon, from New York’s “The Jewish Week”
• What will your rabbi be talking about?, 2007 article from the Jewish Journal
• Do-it-yourself High Holy Days sermon, a MadLibs-like approach to sermons from the Jewish Journal

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz explains the origins and significance of the Talmud.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for Talmud
• Talmud listing from Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Jewish Encyclopedia listing for Talmud
• Talmud, from Jewish Virtual Library

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Content Summary Rabbi Nicki Greninger discusses approaches to teaching prayer to children.

This week’s links:

• Jewish Bedtime Prayers for Children from About.com
• Spiritual and Practical: A New Approach to Teaching Prayer, from the blog “New Jewish Education”
• My Jewish Learning: Early Childhood
• Jewish Routines for Children, from MyJewishLearning.com

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Content Summary A warm welcome to Rabbi Nicki Greninger, Temple Isaiah’s new education director! In her first podcast, Rabbi Greninger explains the value of religious services designed specifically to meet the needs of young children.

This week’s links:

• Making Shabbat More Fun for Young Children at Home and in Synagogue, a PDF checklist
• Top Ten Ways to Make Shabbat a Fun Family Celebration, from About.com
• Temple Isaiah’s Kindergarten page

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Content Summary Rachel Holtz, the daughter of your host, discusses her Jewish tattoos.

This week’s links:

• Tattooing in Jewish Law, from MyJewishLearning.com
• New York Times article on Jewish tattooing
• Jews with Tattoos, from the Boston Globe
• Ask the Rabbi: Jews and Tattoos
• Alternative view: Is Getting a Tatto a Sin?

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Content Summary Three songs from Brooklyn performer Mordechai “Morty” Schiller, who describes his music as “folk songs for the Jewish soul.”

This week’s links:

• Download Schiller’s songs for yourself
• Schiller’s day job, copywriter
• Why are blogs like country music?, an article by Schille

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest explains Birthright Israel, which provides funded trips to Israel for college-aged Jews who have never been, and explores the value of the longer teen experience like that offered by “Let’s Go Israel.”

This week’s links:

• Birthright Israel
• Birthright Israel listing in Wikipedia
• Birthright Israel’s YouTube channel
• Let’s Go Israel East Bay teen Israel trip

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest explains changes to the approach to post-B’nai Mitzvah education that are sweeping through Reform Judaism in an effort to keep teens engaged.

This week’s links:

• Temple Isaiah’s Confirmation Class
• Top 10 Jewish sites for teens, from About.com
• RJ Teen, the portal to Reform Jewish teen life
• JVibe, a magazine and online community for Jewish teens
• Confirmation, from JewishEncyclopedia.com

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks of Temple Isaiah explains what D’var Torah is and who can create one.

This week’s links:

• D’var Torah Do’s and Don’ts from MyJewishLearning.com
• Wikipedia listing on Torah Study
• Torah commentary archives from the Union for Reform Judaism
• Study Torah Online, a listing of online Torah study resources from About.com

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks of Temple Isaiah discusses the issue of rabbis using sermons as a platform for political advocacy.

This week’s links:

• Jewish News Weekly poll on whether rabbis should mix sermons and politics
• New York Times article on the challenge of writing High Holy Days sermons
• Jewish Exponent article on mixing politics and the pulpit
• A Place for Politics in the Pulpit, a Belief.net article by author David Klinghoffer.

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah Librarian Val Mourehouse reads “The Bachelor and the Bean, A Jewish Moroccan Folk Tale,” by Shelley Fowles.

This week’s links:

• The Bachelor and the Bean” at Amazon.com
• Reviews of “The Bachelor and the Bean”
• About Shelley Fowles
• Other books by Shelley Fowles

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Content Summary Synagogues, churches, and mosques across all 50 states are displaying banners to raise awareness of torture. Rabbi Roberto Graetz explores the campaign and the issues.

This week’s links:

• National Religious Coalition Against Torture
• Banners Across America
• Rabbis for Human Rights - North America
• Rabbis for Human Rights on Banner Project

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Content Summary Tips on staying connected to your Judaism during the busy summer months from Rabbi Graetz.

This week’s links:

• Jewish summer camps
• How Jewish is Summer Camp? from the New Jersey Jewish Standard
• URJ Adult Summer Retreat
• Summer Reading with a Jewish Slant, from Jewish Women International
• Hot Vacation Spots for Jewish Travelers

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Content Summary Cantor Leigh Korn explains the challenges of adopting a new prayer book.

This week’s links:

• Official site of Mishkan T’filah
• URJ answers questions about Mishkan T’filah
• Choosing a Siddur, from My Jewish Learning

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Content Summary Cantor Leigh .Korn discusses the approach taken by Temple Isaiah to accommodate special-needs students pursuing their B’nai Mitzvot

This week’s links:

• Special Needs Bar Mitzvah, special needs consultant’s answer to a Hebrew teacher’s question
• YouTube vide of a special needs Bar Mitzvah
• When a Child Has Special Needs, from My Jewish Learning
• Bar Mitzvah Special Needs Guide, from England’s United Synagogue

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Content Summary Gabe Salgado, Temple Isaiah’s former Youth Director, talks about the role virtual worlds can play in supporting Judaism.

This week’s links:

• Second Life’s First Jewish City
• Virtual Judaism: Finding Second Life in Online Community
• Judaism in Second Life
• Second Life’s virtual Judaism gains a new congregation

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Content Summary Jewish rock from The Josh Nelson Project.

This week’s links:

• The Josh Nelson Project website
• The Josh Nelson Project on MySpace
• MP3 downloads of The Josh Nelson Project
• The Josh Nelson Project’s “Lift” CD from CDUniverse

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz talks about “twinning,” the special relationship created between two synagogues in different parts of the world.

This week’s links:

• United Jewish Communities on Twinning
• Temple Isaiah’s Steps for Tzedakah 2008
• Synaguge twinning - sealed on a ketuba

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz explores the history and meaning of the seder plate.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for the seder plate
• Virtual seder plate
• How to prepare the seder plate, from About.com
• Mahalo’s Top Seven Seder Plate listings
• Seder plate craft, from Crayola

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest explores the history of Judaism’s connection with matzah.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for matzah
• What is matzah?, from JewishRecipes.com
• MatzahOnline.com
• How to Make Matzah, from About.com

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest discusses the rituals affecting the mother after birth, including Jewish “maternity leave.”

This week’s links:

• Birth and the First Month of Life, from Judaism 101
• Jewish Birth and Naming Rituals, from Religion Facts
• Welcome Your Baby: Jewish Traditions, from BeliefNet
• Parshat Tazria, from Bar-Ilan University’s Parashat Hashavua Study Center

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Content Summary The music of the Beach Boys provided the theme for this year’s telling of the Story of Esther at Temple Isaiah.

This week’s links:

• Temple Isaiah

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Content Summary Cantor Korn illuminates us about Purim and its wild and crazy rituals and traditions.

This week’s links:

• Purimspiel scripts
• The Haman Show, an audio file showcasing “The Daily Show’s” Rob Kutner introducing the now-traditional stand-up show in New York.
• Purimspiels in About.com
• Vashti Was Right, a sample Purimspiel
• Wikipedia listing for Purim

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Content Summary Rabbi Shanks walks us through the anything-but-typical day in the life of a rabbi.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for “rabbi”
• Rabbis, from the Jewish Virtual Library
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• What is a rabbi?
• Rabbi Shanks’ page on the Temple Isaiah website

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Content Summary Rabbi Shanks explains ethical wills.

This week’s links:

• Medieval Sourcebook: Jewish Ethical Wills, 12th and 14th Century
• How to Write an Ethical Will, from Parenthood.org
• Giving More than Money: Ethical Wills Gain Favor
• Wikipedia entry on ethical wills
• On Reading and Writing Ethical Wills, from MyJewishLearning.com

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Content Summary Social media consultant Shel Holtz—Temple Isaiah’s webmaster—talks about the potential synagogue uses of social media.

This week’s links:

• The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy
• JewishBlogging.com
• A beginner’s guide to Jewish blogging
• Jewish Podcasts from Digital Podcasts
• Jewish Webcasting
• Schmooze.com, a Jewish Social Network
• Ning.com, the do-it-yourself social network site

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Content Summary Three musical selections by the unconventional klezmer band, Thirty Years.

This week’s links:

• Thirty Years website
• Download free Thirty Years MP3s

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz and YJN Host Michele Holtz explore the potential for online Jewish communities.

This week’s links:

• JVibe, described as a “Jewish teen online community”
• United Jewish Communities
• Yideoz, an online Jewish community for uploading and sharing videos
• Weaving a Jewish Web
• CommUNITY in Cyberspace, 1999 article from Washington Jewish Week
• Jewish Path, Cyberspace Super Highway to Jewish Learning

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Content Summary Artist Gary Rosenthal discusses how art can do good through his Hiddur Mitzvah and Art as a Catalyst projects.

This week’s links:

• Gary Rosenthal’s website
• Hiddur Mitzvah Project
• Article on Hiddur Mitzvah from BabagaNewz
• Art as a Catalyst, Gary Rosenthal’s other charitable projects

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah educator Jonathan Frantz introduces us to three real-life Jewish pirates.

This week’s links:

• Article on Jewish Pirates from Jewish Journal
• Ancient Jewish pirates
• Wikipedia listing for Samuel Pallache
• Wikipedia listing for Moses Cohen Henriques
• Wikipedia listing for Jean Lafitte

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Content Summary Val Morehouse, Temple Isaiah’s librarian, reads Arthur A. Levine’s “Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand.” Levine, in addition to being an author, is a Scholastic editor responsible for, among other things, the Harry Potter series in the U.S.

This week’s links:

• Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand on Amazon
• Arthur A. Levine’s website
• A conversation with Arthur A. Levine
• Tu B’Shevat, from Judaism 101
• Tu B’Shevat, from My Jewish Learning

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks conducts a brief tour of the sanctuary.

This week’s links:

• Bimah entry from Wikipedia
• Ner Tamid entry from the Jewish Virtual Library
• Ark entry from Wikipedia
• Torah scrolls entry from Judaism 101

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Content Summary Partners in Torah provides in-person and over-the-phone pairings of Jewish teacher and learner at no cost. In this episode, Special Projects Director Eve Cohen talks about how the program works.

This week’s links:

• Partners in Torah
• Dallas Observer article about Partners in Torah
• Birthright Israel

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Content Summary Groyse Mitsi’e combines touching acoustic solo pieces, breakbit and funky grooves, trip hop ambience and rock and roll power with the soulful fire of klezmer jewish music (according to their website).

This week’s links:

• Groyse Mitsi’e Website
• Download free music by Groyse Mitsi’e
• Video performances from Groyse Mitsi’e on YouTube
• Wikipedia listing for klezmer music

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Content Summary Teens from the Temple Isaiah Teen School interview each other on being at Jew at Christmas.

This week’s links:

• What Do Jews Do on Christmas
• Jews & Christmas
• Being a Jew at Christmas
• Christmas for Jews
• Temple Isaiah’s Teen School

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Content Summary What is a sacred object? What makes it sacred? What do we do with them when they become irreperable? Cantor Leigh Korn explains it all.

This week’s links:

• Sacred Objects, from Wellesley (MA) Public Schools
• On Restoring Sacred Objects, by Jack C. Thompson
• A list of the 613 Mitzvot (the Temple, Sanctuary, and Sacred Objects are covered in 426-458)

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Content Summary Call them yarmulkes, kipot, skull caps or beanies—they are a tradition in Judaism, but not a commandment, as we learn from Cantor Leigh Korn.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for kippah
• Ohr Someyach’s Ask the Rabbi on head covering
• Kippah: A Blessing on Your Head
• Kippah listing from Jewish Virtual Library
• Rabbi Shraga Simmons on kipot from About.com

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks delves into the meaning and rituals of the Mikvah..

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia entry for “mikvah”
• The Mikvah Project
• Mikvah Dreams
• Worldwide Listing of Mikvaos
• NPR feature, “Feminist Jews Revive Ritual Bath for Women

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks explores the meaning of environmentalism within the context of the Jewish faith and outlines Temple Isaiah’s efforts.

This week’s links:

• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
• The Great Warming Call to Action
• Why Jewish Enviornmentalism
• Jewish Environmental Perspectives
• Wikipedia Category: Jewish Enviornmentalism
• Jewish Environmental Values
• Jewish Environmentalism” (audio clip)
• Synagogues Throw Energy Behind Green Movement (from Forward)

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Content Summary Rabbi Alissa Forrest discusses the importance of mixing informal Jewish education with the more formal experiences of Hebrew and Sunday school.

This week’s links:

• Introducing Rabbi Alissa Forrest
• Informal Jewish Education
• The philosophy of informal Jewish education
• Diversity and informal Jewish education

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Content Summary Contra Costa Jewish Day School Director Dean Goldfein looks at the history and future of the school and at the value of Jewish day schools in general.

This week’s links:

• Contra Costa Jewish Day School
• A Jewish Education: The Right Choice For Many Jewish Families, from About.com
• Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education
• Wikipedia listing for Jewish Day Schools
• 2003-2004 Census of U.S. Jewish Day Schools (PDF file)
• “J” magazine article, “Day schools don’t isolate, they foster Jewish identity”

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Content Summary Rabbi Graetz addresses the challenges of keeping Shabbat in a modern American household.

This week’s links:

• Shabbat, from Judaism 101
• Shabbat, from the Jewish Virtual Library
• The Ultimate Shabbat Site
• Shabbat Challenges
• How to Keep Shabbat

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Content Summary Rabbi Graetz discusses torture as a moral issue and explores the work of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

This week’s links:

• National Religious Campaign Against Torture
• Rabbis for Human Rights
• Rabbis for Human Rights: Stop Torture Now
• Rabbis for Human Rights: Campaign Against Torture
• Rabbis Against Torture, by Nat Hentoff for the Village Voice

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Content Summary Audio clips from a driving-and-walking tour of the old Jewish neighborhoods in Manchester, UK. The tour was one of many available from the Society of American Travel Writers during their annual meeting held this year in Manchester. Special thanks to tour guide and Jewish history scholar Bill Williams, who used to teach Jewish history at the university and currently is active in preservation efforts for Jewish buildings, who gave us permission to record his comments during the tour..

This week’s links:

• Manchester Jewish Museum
• Manchester Jewry Research
• Lest We Forget, a talk by our tour guide Bill Williams
• Manchester Synagogues
• Jewish Community of Greater Manchester
• Manchester Jewish Federation
• Biographical information on tour guide Bill Williams

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Content Summary Rabbi Reuven Silverman of the Manchester Reform Synagogue, from the northern part of England, talks about his congregation.

This week’s links:

• Manchester Reform Synagogue
• Reform Judaism UK
• Reform Judaism in England, from the BBC

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah congregant Michael Brent discusses interfaith marriages and the challenges and joys surrounding them; he writes on the topic for a variety of publications.

This week’s links:

• The Interfaith Marriage
• The Emotional Challenges of Interfaith Marriage from PsychCentral
• The Jewish Outreach Institute
• Sample Jewish–Christian Interfaith Ceremony
• Tips for Planning an Interfaith Wedding
• Challenges Facing Interfaith Couples Before & After Marriage from MyJewishLearning.com

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz of Temple Isaiah defines festivals and holidays and explores the origins and traditions of Shemini Atzeret.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for Shemini Atzeret
• My Jewish Learning listing for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
• Shemini Atzeret dates and Torah portions
• Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah from the Jewish Virtual Library

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Content Summary Classical violinist Alexander Skwortsow performs Kol Nidre; jam-rock band Phish performs Avinu Malkeinu

This week’s links:

• Alexander Skwortsow
• Phish
• Free downloadable Skworstow recordings
• Avinu Maleinu from HebrewSongs.com
• MyJewishLearning.com on Avinu Malkeinu
• Kol Nidre from JewishEncyclopedia.com
• Kol Nidre from HebrewSongs.com
• Cantor Leigh Korn discusses Kol Nidre in YJN episode #57 from about this time last year

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Content Summary Arie Kaplan, “Mad Magazine” contributor and author of “Masters of the Comic Book Universe,” discusses Jews in comic books.

This week’s links:

• Arie Kaplan’s website
• Heroes of the Comic Book Universe Revealed! at Amazon.com
• Arie Kaplan in Wikipedia
• A Brief History of Jews in Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan

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Content Summary Board member and caterer Susan Lieber explores the tastes and traditions of Rosh Hashanah cooking

This week’s links:

Tzimmes recipes

• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five

Kugel recipes

• Potato kugel
• Noodle kugel
• Spinach kugel
• Five-fruit kugel
• Eggplant and green pepper kugel

Jewish cooking sites

• Kosher Cooking
• Jewish Cooking
• Jewish Recipes
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide to Jewish Cooking

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah Librarian Val Morehouse reads “Gershon’s Monster,” by Eric Kimmel.

This week’s links:

• Gershon’s Monster at Amazon.com
• Books by Eric Kimmel
• Eric Kimmel’s website
• Eric Kimmel on ChildrensLit.com
• Eric Kimmel Teacher Resource File
• Rosh Hashanah for Children, from The Jewish Children’s Learning Network
• Rosh Hashanah Fun Pages on About.com

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Content Summary A day with the kids and staff at Camp Kefli, Temple Isaiah’s popular summer day camp.

This week’s link:

• Temple Isaiah’s Camp Kefli

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Content Summary Cantor Leigh Korn provides a primer on the Jewish New Year (one of four, as it turns out).

This week’s links:

• Rosh Hashanah from Judaism 101
• Rosh Hashanah from Wikipedia
• Rosh Hashanah from Torah.org
• How Rosh Hashanah Works (from How Stuff Works)
• Rosh Hashanah recipes
• More Rosh Hashanah recipes
• Still more Rosh Hashanah recipes
• Rosh Hashanah glossary

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Content Summary Cantor Leigh Korn recounts his visits to synagogues in Dubrovnik (Croatia), Rhodes (Greece), and Rome.

This week’s links:

• The Database of Jewish Communities
• The Old Synagogue of Dubrovnik, Coratia
• The Jewish Community of Dubrovnik
• Kahal Shalom Synagogue, Rhodes, Greece
• Virtual Jewish History Tour of Greece
• Synagogues without Jews: Rhodes
• Great Synagogue of Rome (Wikipedia listing)
• The Jewish Community of Rome
• Jewish Rome

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Content Summary Gan Ilan, Temple Isaiah’s preschool, is the setting for this on-the-scene podcast featuring interviews with the outgoing program directors—Ginger Morris and Jill Shugart—along with teachers and preschoolers.

This week’s links:

• Temple Isaiah’s Gan Ilan
• Jewish Preschools as Gateways to Jewish Life (PDF file) A survey of Jewish preschool parents in three cities
• URJ Early Childhood Education page
• Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education - Early Childhood Page
• Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz explores ways to celebrate Israel’s upcoming 60th anniversary. We close with a special recording of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors singing Hatikvah during their first Shabbat service following liberation.

This week’s links:

• Israel’s 60th Independence Day Festival
• The Conservative Movement Celebrates Israel’s 60th Anniversary
• Bergen-Belsen Memorial
• Video presentation of Hatikvah sung at Bergen-Belsen

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Content Summary Rabbi Judy Shanks concludes her discussion of Jewish death and burial rituals with an examination of the funeral, Shiva, and beyond.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia entry on Shiva
• Shiva resource from About.com
• How to pay a Shiva call
• Wikipedia entry on Kaddish
• Judaism 101 on Mourner’s Kaddish
• Transliteration and translation of the Kaddish from Yahrzeit.org

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Judy Shanks explains the traditions behind Jewish death and burial in the first of a two-part podcast.

This week’s links:

• Berevaement in Judaism, from Wikipedia
• Life, Death, and Mourning, from the Jewish Virtual Library
• The Jewish Way of Death
• Jewish Death and Burial Rituals
• Jewish Funeral Customs

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Content Summary Anshei Isaiah’s immediate past president, Alan Jacobson, discusses the growth of Temple Isaiah’s men’s club and the role and state of synagogue brotherhoods in genera.

This week’s links:

• Temple Isaiah’s Anshei Isaiah Men’s Club
• Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs
• North American Federation of Temple Brotherhoods
• More Citrons, Please!, article by Doug Barden, executive director of National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah congregant Katya Block recalls growing up Jewish in Ecuador.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia entry on Ecuador
• Jewish Virtual History Tour of Ecuador
• Jewish and Kosher Ecuador
• History of the Jews in Latin America, from Wikipedia

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Content Summary Rabbi Graetz discusses how easy it is to let your Judaism go on vacation over the summer and the various ways you can stay connected to your Judaism.

This week’s links:

• Association of Jewish Libraries
• Temple Isaiah Library
• URJ on Building Your Jewish Library
• UW Madison Center for Jewish Studies—Greenfield Summer Institute
• Summer courses at Hebrew College

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Content Summary Cantor Leigh Korn examines the use of musical instruments in Jewish worship from Biblical through modern times.

This week’s links:

• Jewish Music: An Overview
• Jewish Liturgics
• Jewish Perspectives: Is Instrumental Music Permitted in Jewish Worship?
• History of Religious Jewish Music, from Wikipedia
• Musical Instruments in Ancient Israel

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Content Summary Gordon Gladstone, acting executive director of Berkeley Hillel, discusses what Hillel has to offer for Jewish students.

This week’s links:

• Berkeley Hillel
• Berkeley Hillel Newsletter
• Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
• Wikipedia Listing for Hillel

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah Education Director Debbie Enelow explores the process and challenges of identifying the right teachers for Temple Isaiah’s religious school..

This week’s links:

• URJ’s Education Page
• Commission on Reform Jewish Education
• Partnership for Excellence in Reform Jewish Education
• Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education
• Temple Isaiah’s Education Site

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz discusses what it means for all Jews to have stood together at Sinai to receive the Commandments.

This week’s links:

• We All Stood: Experiencing Sinai in Early Childhood, from Madrichim.org
• Ten Principles for Reform Judaism, from Reform Judaism Magazine
• Reshaping Jewish Memory, by Judith Plaskow (from MyJewishLearning.org)

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Content Summary From Temple Isaiah’s library, our librarian pulls a Shavuot tale titled, “A Mountain of Blintzes,” by Barbara Diamond Goldin.

This week’s links:

• Wikipedia listing for Shavuot
• My Jewish Learning listing for Shavuot
• “A Mountain of Blintzes,” by Barbara Diamond Goldin, at Amazon.com
• Cheese blintzes recipe from Cooks.com
• A blintzes recipe from My Jewish Learning
• Cheese blintzes recipe from Epicurious

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Content Summary Jewish Singer-Songwriter Neshama Carlebach talks about her music, her father (singer-songwriter Shlomo Carlebach), and her other pursuits.

This week’s links:

• Neshama Carlebach’s Website
• Neshama Carlebach’s CDs
• Wikipedia listing for Shlomo Carlebach

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Content Summary Camp Kefli director Deb Phillips explains the connections between Jewish day camp and a Jewish identity, and explains the Camp Kefli program and how it strengthens the overall Jewish experience for Temple youth.

This week’s links:

• The New Antisemitism
• Resources on the new antisemitism from Haaretz.com
• The New Antisemitism, an article from Victor Davis Hanson
• “The ‘new’ anti-semitism: is Europe in grip of worst bout of hatred since the Holocaust? (a report from UK’s The Guardian)

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Content Summary Camp Kefli director Deb Phillips explains the connections between Jewish day camp and a Jewish identity, and explains the Camp Kefli program and how it strengthens the overall Jewish experience for Temple youth.

This week’s links:

• Temple Isaiah’s Camp Kefli
• Jewish Summer Camps in America
• Camping and Continuity (from Jewish World Today)
• How Jewish is Summer Camp? (from the New Jersey Jewish Standard)

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Content Summary Rabbi Roberto Graetz and Steps for Tzedakah Chair Arlynn Bloom talk about this year’s event and its beneficiary.

This week’s links:

• Steps for Tzedakah home page
• Article about Moadonit
• Or Hadash Congregation

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Judy Shanks discusses how Temples in the Reform movement identify and hire a new rabbi for their congregations.

This week’s links:

• Union for Reform Judiasm
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Rabbi Judy Shanks discusses the emerging tradition of the Women’s Seder.

This week’s links:

• A Women’s Seder in Israel, from the Jerusalem Post
• Transcript on a Women’s Seder from PBS’ “Religion & Ethics”
• “The Women’s Seder Sourcebook” from Barnes & Noble
• The Why of Women’s Seders from RitualWell.org
• Enriching Your Communal Women’s Seder from RitualWell.org
• Invocation for Women’s Seders from RitualWell.org

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Content Summary Temple Isaiah’s Cemetery Committee Chairman Frank Winer discusses the long path to the development of local Jewish cemetery, Gan Shalom (Garden of Peace).

This week’s links:

• International Jewish Cemetery Project
• Jewish News Weekly article on Gan Shalom’s beginnings
• 2003 San Francisco Chronicle article on opposition to Gan Shalom

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Content Summary Lawrence Grossman discusses the Jewish Webcasting Service, an effort to aggregate and provide access to a growing treasure trove of Jewish multimedia content on the World Wide Web.

This week’s links:

• Jewish Webcasting Service
• Jewish podcast listing
• Another Jewish podcast list

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Content Summary Host Michele Holtz’s son, Benjamin Holtz, was a Specialist in the U.S. Army’s lauded 101st Airborne Division and was part of the invasion force entering Iraq at the beginning of the conflict. He discusses what it is like t be a Jewish soldier in a largely Christian army.

This week’s links:

• Jewish Soldier Foundation
• From NPR, A Jewish Soldier’s view of Iraq
• From aish.com, One Proud Jewish Soldier

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Content Summary Mary Anne Winig, who directs adult programming at Temple Isaiah, explains Havurat D’vash and Meet and Greet.

This week’s links:

• Senior Services in the East Bay, from REsource, a guide to Jewish life in the Bay Area
• Temple Isaiah’s adult programs

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Content Summary Ronald Young, co-founder of the National Interreligious Initiative for Peace, discusses the organization’s background and recent meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

This week’s links:

• Walk the Road to Peace, the website of the National Interreligious Initiative for Peace
• Initiative documents, including the letter to U.S. Secretary of State Rice, on the site of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• U.S. leadership essential for Israeli-Palestinian peace, an editorial from The Seattle Times supporting the Initiative’s efforts
• Notice of Ron Young’s appearance at Temple Isaiah on March 8

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Content Summary A taste of an adult Purimspiel rehearsal at Temple Isaiah, including interviews, songs, and dialogue.

This week’s links:

• JCC of Manhattan Purim Guide (PDF file)
• Wikipedia listing for Book of Esther

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