Mishegaas, Misc.

  • This merits a post of its own, but briefly, a new bill has decided to fly in the face of halakha and distinguish converts from those born of Jewish parents vis a vis Israeli citizenship, and to hand the Rabbinate more power over conversions, which would be a disaster on many levels.
  • A site called Vidui Variations is starting up, offering a space for a variety of ways to think about Jewish approaches to death and dying. Lots of amazing stuff (and I’m not just saying that because its name is a wink to my own Kiddushin Variations).
  • The Jewish Women’s Archive has started a very cool interactive Jewish women’s mapping project. Ch-ch-check it out.
  • A small scuffle around a Holocaust musical.
  • This piece on one group’s attempts to cast aspersions at the kashrut status of lox has quite the comments section.
  • New York State earmarked nearly $1 million a year ago to tackle sex abuse in New York’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities; evidently none of it has been spent yet.
  • There’s a new Ethiopian Jewish haggadah out.
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