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secular
How do you talk to kids about God?
For secular parents, explaining sex is a cinch, but tackling religion can be terrifying
Secular Beit Shemesh school to become all haredi
A secular school in Beit Shemesh that was divided to allow a haredi Orthodox girls school to have classes there will become completely haredi.
Leaving religious life: The ‘un-Orthodox’ path
The path between the secular world and highly observant Judaism is a two-way street.
Secular Yeshiva holds Socratic-style seminars
For the second year in row, local Yiddish learning organization Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) will offer Secular Yeshiva, a bimonthly course with Socratic-style seminars, focused on “history and basic ideas of secular Jewishness,” “critical examination of Tanakh and post-biblical literature,” “Jewish calendar and holidays” and more.
A long time ago, in a kibbutz far away . . .
Yoav was my kibbutz brother, secular and an ardent Zionist. He had an encyclopedic mind that could recite in detail kibbutz history, lore and socialist ideology. Today, Yoav is an equally intense, knowledgeable and ideological Charedi guy living in the Midwest. He recently offered to pay me money for introducing him to the woman he married more than 25 years ago.
Diverse trio running for mayor in troubled Jerusalem
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A rabbi, a Russian oligarch and a high-tech millionaire are running for mayor of Jerusalem. Except there\’s no punch line, just each of them offering up himself as salvation for the hallowed capital\’s many troubles.
Friendship and freedom at Adat Chaverim
Adat Chaverim is a small congregation of secular, Humanistic Jews, whose brochure proposes that \”reason rather than faith is the source of truth, and human intelligence and experience are capable of guiding our lives.\”