PURIM 2012!

Hadassah’s Back! Purim @ JTS and Romemu! Free! Purim Night, March 7th 2012 6:30-9:00pm: Hadassah & friends read the Megillah at JTS 9:30pm-Midnight: PISH: The Purim Tish Party at Romemu Megillah Reading @ Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway (@122nd St) Free! Featuring live music, a full megillah reading (chanted by JTS faculty and students), and […]

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Big Women Vs. Bigotry: Gay Rights ARE Human RIghts

‘Gay Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Gay Rights’ (H. Clinton) Big week of big news and big headlines from big women vs bigotry – with important steps and statements for more dignity, diversity and celebration of humanity in all its forms. In honor of Human Rights Day – 12/10 – Hillary Clinton […]

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Kristalnacht: a prayer in a church for my grandfather

On the 11th of Heshvan, 1942, my grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Chayim Lau, led his congregation to the gas chambers of Treblinka. We are told he was clasping a Torah scroll, and chanted the kaddish as he, along with one of his four sons and thousands of Piotrkow’s Jews marched to their deaths. I called my […]

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