Showing posts with label Jews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jews. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Social Distancing made me "normal" in the Jewish community

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Breslov Hasid  making hisboddidus (courtesy of Wikipedia) For literally decades, I have been an anomaly in the Jewish community. As a H...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Kapporos Protests: Reflections on a New Approach

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Note from the Editor: As readers of this blog know, I was a founding member of the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos in 2010, but broke w...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

On Jewish Theology and Abortion

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Religious freedom applies to ALL religions not just Christian fundamentalists To begin: Judaism permits abortion That is a given....
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

On Why I No Longer Do Speaking Engagements

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"Hello.  I'm Rabbi Gershom, and I'm autistic..." This is how I often introduce myself to a group nowadays, because I ...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Guest Column: "To Save a Life" by Rocky Schwartz

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Editor's Intro: Each year I write a column about why I oppose using chickens for Kapporos, the pre-Yom Kippur ceremony practiced by some...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Reincarnation and multicultural Awareness

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As many of my readers know, I took down my old website a while back. Several people have asked where to find this essay from 20 years ago.  ...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Parable of the Rooster Prince

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A tale of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (As told by Yonassan Gershom) Once there was a prince who went mad and insisted he was a rooster...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Cleaning for Passover: Don't be a fanatic!

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Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, the great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, once got so caught up in an obsession about getting rid of chometz (le...