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Maidenhead Pulls Spiel Off
In another thrilling RSY-Netzer Purim Spiel-off competition, Maidenhead claimed outright victory. The fifth annual competition held at Alyth, winners in 2009, saw five teams from Alyth, Finchley Reform, Sinai (Leeds), Wimbledon Reform and Maidenhead compete for the RSY-Netzer Community Cup. This is Maidenheads second win, after triumph at the first Spiel-off back in 2005.
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Crazy, Hazy and Lazy – Sarah's Musings on Denominations of Judaism Today and her Reform Judaism
Having been on Machon for nearly 3 months now, I have learnt a lot about my own Judaism as well as other denominations. Not only has this led me to further understand, criticize and respect other ways in which people choose to practice their religion, but it has also led me to some understandings about my own choices and customs.
I maintain my Reform perspective and attitudes. However, I have decided that up until now my practices have not actually been true to my ideology. We throw around terms like \"informed decision making\" and \"personal autonomy\" and I am usually the first to defend Reform Judaism as more than just non-observance. I would claim that it is not a lesser way of practicing, just a different one; that I am not subscribing to an inactive, thoughtless, unreligious variety of Judaism but that on the contrast, I believe Reform Judaism to be more authentically \"Jewish\" in the sense of debate, thought and discussion contributing to the way we practice. I label myself as a religious Reform Jew but am I true to myself? Do I actually practice what I claim? Or is it hypocrisy to claim to be more than just the Progressive stereotype of \"lazy\" Jews who just d
on\'t really feel like/want to/have time to carry out the "real" Judaism of the Orthodox world.
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Dear parents, shnattim and snifim shalom rav!
This week our shnatties visited Latron- learned about the "Burma Road" that was a makeshift route built by Israeli forces during 1948. Jerusalem had been under siege intermittently since the beginning of 1948.
Add a commentMitzvah Day '09
For Mitzvah Day this year RSY-Netzer communities all around the country took part in a variety of different projects, some with the rest of their synagogue, and some run purely by the youth.
Add a commentWhat global problems should we prioritise?
In a lecture that can be found here, Bjorn Lomborg argues that climate change should not necessarily be prioritised above other competing concerns. In a gathering of some of the world's foremost economists at a summit called the 'Copenhagen Consensus', global issues were addressed ranging from malnutritution to malaria, from climate change to water sanitation. The important part of their analysis was that they not only looked at how grave the problem was, but also how effective current available solutions are for those problems. It's well worth a look, and feel free to agree or disagree below.
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