Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official website, www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org. This week's links: WRJ Biennial site with videos and daily newsletters Women of Reform Judaism URJ Biennial site

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Visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its regular website, www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org.This week's links:Jeanette Gross's Sacred Hebrew Chant site Healing Circles Chanting and healing circles at Temple Isaiah Jewish Healing and Programs from the National Center for Jewish Healing

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Please visit us at our official home, www.yourjewishneighborhood.org.This week's links: Songs from Sinai, from The Jewish Magazine In approaching the High Holy Days, it Pays to Take Time to Prepare, from the Jewish Journal Entering the High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to the History, Prayers and Themes&, a complete book on Google Books American Conference of Cantors

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Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home: www.yourjewishneighborhood.orgThis week's links:Wikipedia listing for Culture of Israel About.com listing for Israeli Culture Israel Symphony OrchestraIsrael Food and Dining from iExplore.com Israel Science and Technology Article on Israeli wine from Wine News

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This week's links:Israel Wonders, Israel's official tourism site 55 reasons to visit Israel from AISH.com Why American Jews should visit Israel NOW Israel listing from CIA World Factbook Actor Zach Braff: All Jews should visit Israel. from JewTastic

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Please visit our official home at YourJewishNeighborhood.org!This week's links: Wikipedia article on interfaith marriage in Judaism Jewish View of Intermarriage from About.com Challenges Facing Interfaith Couples Before & After Marriage, from My Jewish Learning Interfaith Family, "Encouraging Jewish Choices & a Welcoming Jewish Community" "Outreach: The Next Generation" discussion and study guide, from Reform Judaism magazine

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Be sure to join us at our official home, YourJewishNeighborhood.org. 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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Please visit the permanent home of "Your Jewish Neighborhood" for additional resources.This week's linksJewish 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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For more details and to comment on this podcast, please visit our primary home page at YourJewishNeighborhood.org 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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For more details and to comment on this podcast, please visit our primary home page at YourJewishNeighborhood.org 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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Please join us at our regular website, www.yourjewishneighborhood.org!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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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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Be sure to visit the official home of Your Jewish Neighborhood.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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Be sure to visit the home of Your Jewish Neighborhood, where you'll find more detailed show notes. 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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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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This week's links: NFTY, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Note: This is a repeat of episode #111, which features two musical selections for Yom Kippur. 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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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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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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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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A warm welcome to Rabbi Nicki Greninger, Temple Isaiah's new education director!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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This week's links: Tattooing in Jewish Law, from MyJewishLearning.comNew York Times article on Jewish tattooingJews with Tattoos, from the Boston Globe Ask the Rabbi: Jews and TattoosAlternative view: Is Getting a Tatto a Sin?

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This week's links: Download Schiller's songs for yourself Schiller's day job, copywriter Why are blogs like country music?, an article by Schiller

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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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This week's links: Temple Isaiah's Confirmation ClassTop 10 Jewish sites for teens, from About.comRJ Teen, the portal to Reform Jewish teen lifeJVibe, a magazine and online community for Jewish teensConfirmation, from JewishEncyclopedia.com

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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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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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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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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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Rabbi Graetz offers some guidance on staying connected to your Judaism during the busy summer months.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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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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This week's links: Special Needs Bar Mitzvah, special needs consultant's answer to a Hebrew teacher's question YouTube video 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Ga

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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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This week's links: 30 Years website Free 30 Years MP3 downloads

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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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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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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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This week's links: Pearl Moscowitz's Last Stand on AmazonArthur A. Levine's websiteA conversation with Arthur A. LevineTu B'Shevat, from Judaism 101Tu B'Shevat, from My Jewish Learning

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This week's links: Bimah entry from Wikipedia Ner Tamid entry from the Jewish Virtual Library

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This week's links: Partners in TorahDallas Observer article about Partners in TorahBirthright Israel

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This week's links: Groyse Mitsi'e WebsiteDownload free music by Groyse Mitsi'eVideo performances from Groyse Mitsi'e on YouTubeWikipedia listing for klezmer music

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This week's links: What Do Jews Do on ChristmasJews & ChristmasBeing a Jew at ChristmasChristmas for JewsTemple Isaiah's Teen School

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This week's links: Sacred Objects, from Wellesley (MA) Public SchoolsOn Restoring Sacred Objects, by Jack C. ThompsonA list of the 613 Mitzvot (the Temple, Sanctuary, and Sacred Objects are covered in 426-458)

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This week's links: Wikipedia listing for kippahOhr Someyach's Ask the Rabbi on head coveringKippah: A Blessing on Your HeadKippah listing from Jewish Virtual LibraryRabbi Shraga Simmons on kipot from About.com

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This week's links: Wikipedia entry for "mikvah" The Mikvah Project Mikvah Dreams Worldwide Listing of Mikvaos http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5490415NPR feature, "Feminist Jews Revive Ritual Bath for Women

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This week's links:a href="http://www.coejl.org/index.php">Coalition on the Environment and Jewish LifeThe Great Warming Call to ActionWhy Jewish EnviornmentalismJewish Environmental PerspectivesWikipedia Category: Jewish EnviornmentalismJewish Environmental ValuesJewish Environmentalism" (audio clip)Synagogues Throw Energy Behind Green Movement (from Forward)

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This week's links: Introducing Rabbi Alissa ForrestInformal Jewish EducationThe philosophy of informal Jewish educationDiversity and informal Jewish education

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This week's links: Contra Costa Jewish Day SchoolA Jewish Education: The Right Choice For Many Jewish Families, from About.comPartnership for Excellence in Jewish EducationWikipedia listing for Jewish Day Schools2003-2004 Census of U.S. Jewish Day Schools (PDF file)"J" magazine article, "Day schools donât isolate, they foster Jewish identity"

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This week's links: Shabbat, from Judaism 101Shabbat, from the Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Ultimate Shabbat SiteShabbat ChallengesHow to Keep Shabbat

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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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This week's links Manchester Jewish MuseumManchester SynagoguesJewish Community of Greater ManchesterManchester Jewish Federation

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This week's links: Manchester Reform Synagogue Reform Judaism UK  Reform Judaism in England, from the BBC

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This week's links:   The Interfaith Marriage The Emotional Challenges of Interfaith Marriage from PsychCentral The Jewish Outreach Institute Sample JewishâChristian Interfaith Ceremony Tips for Planning an Interfaith Wedding Challenges Facing Interfaith Couples Before & After Marriage from MyJewishLearning.com

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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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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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This week's links: Arie Kaplan's websiteHeroes of the Comic Book Universe Revealed! at Amazon.comArie Kaplan in WikipediaA Brief History of Jews in Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan

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This week's links:  Five Tzimmes recipes OneTwoThreeFourFive Kugel recipes Potato kugelNoodle kugelSpinach kugelFive-fruit kugelEggplant and green pepper kugel Jewish cooking sites Kosher CookingJewish CookingJewish RecipesCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide to Jewish Cooking

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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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This week's link: Temple Isaiah's Camp Kefli

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This week's links:   Rosh Hashanah from Judaism 101 Rosh Hashanah from WikipediaRosh Hashanah from Torah.orgHow Rosh Hashanah Works (from How Stuff Works)Rosh Hashanah recipesMore Rosh Hashanah recipesStill more Rosh Hashanah recipesRosh Hashanah glossary

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This week's links: The Database of Jewish CommunitiesThe Old Synagogue of Dubrovnik, CoratiaThe Jewish Community of DubrovnikKahal Shalom Synagogue, Rhodes, GreeceVirtual Jewish History Tour of GreeceSynagogues without Jews: RhodesGreat Synagogue of Rome (Wikipedia listing The Jewish Community of RomeJewish Rome

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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 PageJewish Early Childhood Education Initiative

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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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This week's links: Wikipedia entry on ShivaShiva resource from About.comHow to pay a Shiva callWikipedia entry on KaddishJudaism 101 on Mourner's KaddishTransliteration and translation of the Kaddish from Yahrzeit.org

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This week's links: Berevaement in Judaism, from WikipediaLife, Death, and Mourning, from the Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Jewish Way of DeathJewish Death and Burial Rituals Jewish Funeral Customs

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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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This week's links: Wikipedia entry on EcuadorJewish Virtual History Tour of EcuadorJewish and Kosher EcuadorHistory of the Jews in Latin America, from Wikipedia

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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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This week's links: Jewish Music: An OverviewJewish LiturgicsJewish Perspectives: Is Instrumental Music Permitted in Jewish Worship?History of Religious Jewish Music, from WikipediaMusical Instruments in Ancient Israel

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This week's links: Berkeley Hillel Berkeley Hillel Newsletter Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Wikipedia Listing for Hillel

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This week's links: URJ Education Page Commission on Reform Jewish Education Partnership for Excellence in Reform Jewish Education Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education Temple Isaiah Education Site

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This week's links: We All Stood: Experiencing Sinai in Early Childhood, from Madrichim.orgTen Principles for Reform Judaism, from Reform Judaism MagazineReshaping Jewish Memory, by Judith Plaskow (from MyJewishLearning.org)

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This week's links: Wikipedia listing for ShavuotMy Jewish Learning listing for Shavuot"A Mountain of Blintzes," by Barbara Diamond Goldin, at Amazon.comCheese blintzes recipe from Cooks.comA blintzes recipe from My Jewish LearningCheese blintzes recipe from Epicurious

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This week's links: Neshama Carlebach's Website Neshama Carlebach's CDs Wikipedia listing for Shlomo Carlebach

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This week's links: The New Antisemitism Resources on the new antisemitism from HaaretzThe 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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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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This week's links: Steps for Tzedakah home page Article about Moadonit Or Hadash Congregation

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This week's links: Union for Reform Judiasm Central Conference of American Rabbis Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

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This week's links: A Women's Seder in Israel, from the Jerusalem PostTranscript on a Women's Seder from PBS' "Religion & Ethics""The Women's Seder Sourcebook" from Barnes & NobleThe Why of Women's Seders from RitualWell.orgEnriching Your Communal Women's Seder from RitualWell.orgInvocation for Women's Seders from RitualWell.org

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This week's links: International Jewish Cemetery Project Jewish News Weekly article on Gan Shalom's beginnings2003 San Francisco Chronicle article on opposition to Gan Shalom  

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This week's links: Jewish Soldier Foundation A Jewish Soldier's View of Iraq, from NPROne Proud Jewish Soldier, from aish.com

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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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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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This week's links: JCC of Manhattan Purim Guide (PDF file)Wikipedia listing for "Book of Esther"

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This week's links: Raisel's Riddle, by Erica Silverman, a Parent's Choice Foundation selection An interview with Erica Silverman

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This week's links: Podcast Alley Podcast 411 Apple iTunes

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This week's links: Light of the River songs available for download on Download.comJewish Music section of Download.com

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This week's links: Judaism 101: Tu B'Shevat Wikipedia's listing for Tu B'Shevat The Jewish Virtual Library's listing for Tu B'Shevat Test Your Tu B'Shevat IQ Seder for Tu B'Shevat Plant trees in IsraelIsrael's passion for trees

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This week's links: Judaism and Same-Sex Marriage, from MyJewishLearning.com Jewish Group OK's Same-Sex Marriage, from the Boston Globe The Reform Movement on LGBT Issues, from Jewish Mosaic Wedding Liturgy for a Same Sex Marriage, from the Shalom Center

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This week's links Wikipedia entry for Siddur Siddur Audio, an online source for learning Siddur liturgyThe Transliterated Siddur  

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This week's links: Wikipedia entry on Torah reading Jewish Virtual Library entry on Torah reading Wikipedia entry on cantillation 

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This week's links: Iranian Holocaust Conference (CNN.com coverage) Jerusalem Post coverage of Israeli reaction to the conference USC Shoah Foundation Institute  Wikipedia listing for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  Wikipedia listing for Holocaust denial  ADL document on Holocaust denial

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This week's links: Rabbis for Human Rights  Rabbinic Conference on Judaism and Human Rights  Conference Coverage from Washington Jewish Week 

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This week's links Contra Costa County Winter Nights ProgramTemple Isaiah's Winter Nights 2006 home pageYJN #15: Rabbi Graetz on Winter Nights, November 17, 2005

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This week's links: Find a JCC Camp How Jewish is Summer Camp? from the New Jersey Jewish StandardJewish Summer Camps in America, from About.comCamps Newman and Swig (Local to Temple Isaiah)

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This week's links: December Holiday Guidelines for Public Schools, from the Anti-Defamation LeagueThe December Dilemma, from MyJewishLearning.comInterfaith Families Face December Dilemma, from USA TodayHolidays' Convergence Adds to December Dilemma, from The New York TimesOn Being a Jew at Christmas

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This Week's Link: Women of Reform Judaism

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This week's links: Synagogue affiliation growing (a 2002 article)Shul affiliation rising (United Jewish Communities article)Building your synagogue community (from URJ)  

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This week's links: Simhat Bat, the synagogue naming ceremony for girlsRituals for a Baby DaughterBrit Milah, birth ceremoniesThe New Jewish Baby Book by Anita Diamant (from Amazon.com)

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This week's links: Wikipedia listing on circumcision Listing from Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion Wikipedia listing for "mohel" Questions to ask a mohel

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This week's links: Wikipedia's listing for the term, "Avodah""Let's Go Israel," the annual East Bay Israel trip Temple Isaiah's Avodah program supports

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This week's links: Creating a technology plan for your synagogue, a PDF document from the Center for Congregations The PC in Your Synagogue, from the Union Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Temple Isaiah's website

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This week's links:Jacqueline Jules' websiteAmazon listing for "The Hardest Word" by Jacqueline JulesAmazon listing for all books by Jacqueline Jules

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This week's links:JIMENAJustice for Jews from Arab CountriesWikipedia entry for Mizrahi Jews

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This week's links:Zam'Ru: The Jewish Music Choral DatabaseJewish Choral Music on the InternetURJ: Training Opportunities for Synagogue MusiciansURJ: Synagogue Choirs as Instruments of Prayer

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This week's linksURJ synagogue listingListing of UK Reform communitiesWikipedia listing on Kol NidreTransliteration, translation, and moreBackground on Max Bruch arrangement

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This week's links:The month of Elul and Selichot, from Judaism 101Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish calendar listing)The Month for Repentence, from About.comThe Month of Elul: Customs, from Torah.org

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This week's links:About.com entry on Jewish denominationsWikipedia's entry on Jewish denominationsJudaism 101

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This week's links:How to choose a synagogue, from My Jewish LearningChoosing a synagogue is harder for intermarrieds, from J magazineHow is a synagogue operated? from old Usenet FAQs

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This week's links:Rosie the Riveter TrustWomen in the Factories of World War IIRosie the Riveter: Wikipedia entryRosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National ParkCongregation Beth Ami, Santa Rosa, California

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This week's links:Ways to support IsraelBrit Tzedek v'ShalomUnion for Reform JudaismARZA

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This week's links:San Francisco Mayor Gavin NewsomeUS Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)About the Jewish Community Relations Council Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and South Africa Camp Newman and Camp Swig

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This week's links:Environmental Working Group's "Skin Deep," news about the safety of popular health and beauty brandsThe Campaign for Safe CosmeticsFDA article on cosmetic ingredientsTen Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients to Avoid, from the Organic Consumers AssociationWomen of Reform Judaism

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This week's links: Wikipedia's listing for the mikvah Mikvah Project Ideas for a deeply spiritual conversion ritual Reform conversion to Judaism

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This week's links:The Center for Converstion to JudaismConversion to Judaism (from Chamash)Becoming JewishWho is a Jew? (from Judaism 101)How to Become a Jew (from the BBC)Inviting Conversion (URJ's Biennial Initiative)

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This week's links:National Havurah CommitteeWikipedia entry on chavurah

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This week's links: An Amazon.com list of books for the Jewish bride Wikipedia listing on the Jewish view of marriage Where to get a chuppah, from the Berkeley Parents Network Jewish Weddings, from All Things Jewish On the breaking of the glass, by Adventure Rabbi

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This week's links: Wikipedia's listing on Havdalah Havdalah and Shabbat candle-lighting times Home Havdalah Service Havdalah candle-making

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This week's links:The Peace Encyclopedia on anti-semitismThe U.S. State Department Report on Anti-SemitismWikipedia's listing on Anti-Semitism

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This week's link:Temple Isaiah's Seventh Grade Fund

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This week's links:The United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumSara Bloomfield

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This week's links:LilithInformation on Susan Weidman Schneider

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This week's links:Wikipedia listing for ShavuotShavuot on the NetShavuot at OU.orgShavuot from the Jewish Virtual LibraryAbout the Book of RuthShavuot: The Book of RuthSavuot Recipes

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This week's links:Judaism 101: Counting the OmerAbout.com's Omer resource listWikipedia's Listing

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This week's links: RL White Retreat Center

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This week's links: Hotel Rwanda Walnut Creek United Methodist Church Dear Sudan, Love Marin Bay Area Darfur Coalition Dear Sudan Weblog Congregation Rodef Shalom of Marin A Million Voices for Darfur

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This week's links: Contra Costa Midrasha Let's Go Israel Jewish Culture Kabbalah Temple B'nai Shalom, Walnut Creek Birthright trips to Israel  

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This week's links: The "faux" mitzvah: Non-Jewish 13-year-olds celebrate faux bar mitzvahs, from PittsburghLive.com Something borrowed, something Hebrew, from the Orange County Register

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This week's links: Genres and styles of Jewish music Cantillation Nusach Louis Lewandowski L'cha Dodi V'shumru

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This week's link: Wikipedia's b'nai mitzvah listing This page includes links to a variety of b'nai mitzvah resources

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This week's links: Raisel's Riddle, by Erica Silverman, a Paren't Choice Foundation selection An interview with Erica Silverman

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This week's link: Hadassah

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This week's links: Purim on the Neet Judaism 101: Purim Purim, the Festival of Lots Purim teaching units for educators The Megillah scroll at the Library of Congress Wikipedia listing for Purim

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This week's links: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Sally J. Priesand, the first female Reform rabbi Women's Rabbinic Network

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This week's links: Camp Newman and Camp Swig URJ Camps Directory Temple Isaiah's Camp Kefli Camp Tawonga

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This week's link: Rabbis for Human Rights

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This week's link: Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace

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This week's links: The government of Israel (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Background on Israeli independence The Soviet Jewry Movement Operation Exodus: The emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Wikipedia's entry for kibbutzim

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This week's links Siddur: The Wikipedia entry The new Reform Siddur Roots of the Siddur Marcia Falk

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This week's links: Union of Reform Judaism Temple Isaiah

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This week's links: Linda Hirschhorn and Vocolot Beth Schafer Neshama Carlebach

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This week's links: Women of Reform Judaism

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This week's links: The Chanukah Guest Eric A. Kimmel Temple Isaiah's library

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Happy Chanukah to everybody from Temple Isaiah of Lafayette, California.

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Torah cantillation is the art of changing scripture. Cantor Korn explains its origins and provides examples. This week's links: The Art of Torah Cantillation (Book) Toledot, Genesis Chapter 25, verse 19 Haftorah Malachi chapter 1 Tisha B'av Book of Lamentations

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This week's links: The Union for Reform Judaism Women of Reform Judaism National Association of Temple Administrators National Federation of Temple Youth

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This week's links: Contra Costa County Winter Nights Program

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This week's links: Vocolot Linda Hirschhorn

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Your comments are always welcome at Your Jewish Neighborhood. Post them here (just click on the "comments" link) or send email to yjn@temple-isaiah.org.

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Links from this episode: Rosh Chodesh Midrash

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Links from this week's show: Children's Book Project Diablo Valley AIDS Center Children's Hospital of Oakland Contra Costa Food Bank Reutlinger Center Red Cross Darfur genocide

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This week's show links: Rabbi Shefa Gold The Israelisms Podcast The Story Spieler Podcast

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Links for this show: Women of Reform Judaism

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This show's links: Hebrew Bubur-Rosenzweig Bible Arthur Hertzberg

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Links from this show: Abraham Heschel Solomon Buber

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Links from this show: Yiddish theater George and Ira Gershwin Irving Berlin Rogers and Hammmerstein Milk and Honey Don Appel Jerry Herman Philip Roth The 10 Commandments Fiddler on the Roof Joseph Stein Funny Girl Barbara Streisand Molly Picon the Falsettos William Finn Jason Robert Brown Tony Kushner Caroline or Change Jeanine Tesori

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Links from this show: Hebrew Union College Chazzanut Shalom Aleichem Debbie Friedman Jeff Kleppler Danny Nichols Rick Recht L'chu N'ram'na

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Links from this show: Jewish Calendar Psalm 27 Song of Songs

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Links from the show: Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First Century Conquest of Judea, by Mireille Hadas-Lebel. The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz Focus, by Arthur Miller Constantine's Sword, by James Carroll The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

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In today's podcast, Rabbi Roberto Graetz takes a look at ARZA, the Association of Reform Zionists of America. Links from this show: ARZA Vote ARZA for WZO Elections Our thanks to everybody -- nearly 40 of you! -- who listened to our first podcast. The statistics indicate most of you are downloading the show, and I wanted to let you know that you can also subscribe. You'll need a "podcatcher," software for subscribing to podcasts. I use iPodder. (It's free.) Once you have the software installed on your computer, click the "subscribe" link on this page and copy the URL of the "feed" into the new subscription field in iPodder. And that's it! Now, "Your Jewish Neighborhood" will come to you every Thursday.

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Welcome to our very first podcast! Your Jewish Neighborhood is a weekly podcast featuring clergy and other leaders from Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, California, discussing issues and topics of general interest to the affiliated and unaffiliated Jews everywhere. If you have comments, please send them to us at yjn@temple-isaiah.org. In our first podcast, Temple Isaiah Rabbi Roberto Graetz talks about Reform weddings in Israel. Links from this show: ARZA World Jewish Congress

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