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California Bill Wants To Track Who Is Jewish. It’s A Bad Idea.
California Bill Wants To Track Who Is Jewish. It’s A Bad Idea.

(OPINION) The complexities of Jewish-American identity don’t fit in compartmentalized racial binaries. Jewish identity is inherited, interpreted, and observed differently on an individual-to-individual basis. While heritage and ancestry are certainly technical aspects of Jewish identity, there are several contemporary instances that complicate its resonance.

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Culture, Jewish, Judaism, News, North America, Politics, Religion, Religion News, Society, SolutionsYael BrightYael Bright, opinion, Jews, Jewish, Judaism, Jewish identity, race and culture, religion, faith, news, California, laws, identity, rosh hashanah, politics, politics and religion, Yom Kippur, Primary featureComment
How The Spiritual Sound Of The Shofar Shapes The High Holidays
How The Spiritual Sound Of The Shofar Shapes The High Holidays

It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues — for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of the shofar. An animal horn — typically a ram’s horn — used as a wind instrument, the shofar is featured over 70 times in the Torah.

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History, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, NewsSarah Pessinsarah pessin, rosh hashanah, jewish new year, judaism, jews, shofar, news, secondary feature, talmud, hebrew bible, jewish high holidays, primary feature, shana tova, recharge, Secondary feature, Yom KippurComment