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This Week's Link:

Women of Reform Judaism

Direct download: yjn-68.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:42 AM
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This week's links:

Jewish Webcasting
Temple Judea Podcast
Temple Judea Podcasts on Odeo

Women of Reform Judaism
Women Explore New Commentary (Baltimore JewishTimes.com)

Direct download: yjn-67.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:53 PM
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This week's links:

Synagogue affiliation growing (a 2002 article)
Shul affiliation rising (United Jewish Communities article)
Building your synagogue community (from URJ)

 

Direct download: yjn-66.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:10 PM
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This week's links:

Simhat Bat, the synagogue naming ceremony for girls
Rituals for a Baby Daughter
Brit Milah, birth ceremonies
The New Jewish Baby Book by Anita Diamant (from Amazon.com)

Direct download: yjn-65.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:13 PM
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A 100% all-music podcast!

Shira Tirdof (featuring Jeremy Gimbel and Brad Lennox -- a nationally acclaimed song leader, and an accomplished camp educator, respectively), meaning "song shall you pursue," showcase modern musical interpretations of age-old texts through their eclectic variety of musical offerings.

This music is from the Podsafe Music Network.

Direct download: yjn-64.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:31 PM
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This week's links:

Wikipedia listing on circumcision

Listing from Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion

Wikipedia listing for "mohel"

Questions to ask a mohel

Direct download: yjn-63.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:32 AM
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This week's links:

Wikipedia's listing for the term, "Avodah"
"Let's Go Israel," the annual East Bay Israel trip Temple Isaiah's Avodah program supports

Direct download: yjn-62.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:41 PM
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This week's links:

Creating a technology plan for your synagogue, a PDF document from the Center for Congregations

The PC in Your Synagogue, from the Union Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

Temple Isaiah's website

Direct download: yjn-61.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:02 AM
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This week's links:

Jacqueline Jules' website
Amazon listing for "The Hardest Word" by Jacqueline Jules
Amazon listing for all books by Jacqueline Jules
Direct download: yjn-60.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:59 PM
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This week's links:

JIMENA
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
Wikipedia entry for Mizrahi Jews


Direct download: yjn-59.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:06 AM
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This week's links:

Zam'Ru: The Jewish Music Choral Database
Jewish Choral Music on the Internet
URJ: Training Opportunities for Synagogue Musicians
URJ: Synagogue Choirs as Instruments of Prayer



Direct download: yjn-58.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:32 PM
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This week's links

URJ synagogue listing
Listing of UK Reform communities
Wikipedia listing on Kol Nidre
Transliteration, translation, and more
Background on Max Bruch arrangement
Direct download: yjn-57.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:38 AM
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This week's links:

The month of Elul and Selichot, from Judaism 101
Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish calendar listing)
The Month for Repentence, from About.com
The Month of Elul: Customs, from Torah.org
Direct download: yjn-56.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:49 AM
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This week's links:

About.com entry on Jewish denominations
Wikipedia's entry on Jewish denominations
Judaism 101

Direct download: yjn-55.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:29 PM
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This week's links:

How to choose a synagogue, from My Jewish Learning
Choosing a synagogue is harder for intermarrieds, from J magazine
How is a synagogue operated? from old Usenet FAQs
Direct download: yjn-54.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:54 AM
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This week's links:

Rosie the Riveter Trust
Women in the Factories of World War II
Rosie the Riveter: Wikipedia entry
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Park
Congregation Beth Ami, Santa Rosa, California



Direct download: yjn-53.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:08 AM
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This week's links:

Ways to support Israel
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
Union for Reform Judaism
ARZA
Direct download: yjn-52.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:54 AM
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This week's links:

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome
US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
About the Jewish Community Relations Council
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and South Africa
Camp Newman and Camp Swig

Direct download: yjn-51.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:26 AM
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This week's links:

Environmental Working Group's "Skin Deep," news about the safety of popular health and beauty brands

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

FDA article on cosmetic ingredients

Ten Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients to Avoid, from the Organic Consumers Association

Women of Reform Judaism




Direct download: yjn-50.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:41 PM
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This week's links:

Wikipedia's listing for the mikvah
Mikvah Project
Ideas for a deeply spiritual conversion ritual
Reform conversion to Judaism

Direct download: yjn-49.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:47 PM
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This week's links:

The Center for Converstion to Judaism
Conversion to Judaism (from Chamash)
Becoming Jewish
Who is a Jew? (from Judaism 101)
How to Become a Jew (from the BBC)
Inviting Conversion (URJ's Biennial Initiative)

Direct download: yjn-48.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:41 AM
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This week's links:

National Havurah Committee
Wikipedia entry on chavurah

Direct download: yjn-47.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:24 AM
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This week's links:

An Amazon.com list of books for the Jewish bride

Wikipedia listing on the Jewish view of marriage

Where to get a chuppah, from the Berkeley Parents Network

Jewish Weddings, from All Things Jewish

On the breaking of the glass, by Adventure Rabbi

Direct download: yjn-46.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:30 PM
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This week's links: Wikipedia's listing on Havdalah

Havdalah and Shabbat candle-lighting times

Home Havdalah Service

Havdalah candle-making

Direct download: yjn-45.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:41 PM
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This week's links:

The Peace Encyclopedia on anti-semitism
The U.S. State Department Report on Anti-Semitism
Wikipedia's listing on Anti-Semitism

Direct download: yjn-44.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:15 AM
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This week's link:

Temple Isaiah's Seventh Grade Fund
Direct download: yjn-43.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:29 PM
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This week's links:

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sara Bloomfield
Direct download: yjn-42.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:31 PM
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This week's links:

Lilith
Information on Susan Weidman Schneider
Direct download: yjn-41.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:28 PM
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This week's links:

Wikipedia listing for Shavuot
Shavuot on the Net
Shavuot at OU.org
Shavuot from the Jewish Virtual Library
About the Book of Ruth
Shavuot: The Book of Ruth
Savuot Recipes

Direct download: yjn-40.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:36 AM
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This week's links:

Judaism 101: Counting the Omer
About.com's Omer resource list
Wikipedia's Listing
Direct download: yjn-39.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:35 PM
Comments[2]

This week's links:

RL White Retreat Center

Direct download: yjn-38.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:03 PM
Comments[0]

Links for this show will be posted soon.
Direct download: yjn-37.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:35 AM
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This week's links:

Hotel Rwanda

Walnut Creek United Methodist Church

Dear Sudan, Love Marin

Bay Area Darfur Coalition

Dear Sudan Weblog

Congregation Rodef Shalom of Marin

A Million Voices for Darfur

Direct download: yjn-36.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:17 PM
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This week's links:

Contra Costa Midrasha

Let's Go Israel

Jewish Culture

Kabbalah

Temple B'nai Shalom, Walnut Creek

Birthright trips to Israel

 

Direct download: yjn-35.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:03 PM
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This week's links:

The "faux" mitzvah:

Non-Jewish 13-year-olds celebrate faux bar mitzvahs, from PittsburghLive.com

Something borrowed, something Hebrew, from the Orange County Register

Direct download: yjn-34.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:57 PM
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This week's links:

Genres and styles of Jewish music

Cantillation

Nusach

Louis Lewandowski

V'shumru

Direct download: yjn-33.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:48 PM
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This week's link:

Wikipedia's b'nai mitzvah listing
This page includes links to a variety of b'nai mitzvah resources

Direct download: yjn-32.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:30 AM
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This week's links:

Raisel's Riddle, by Erica Silverman, a Paren't Choice Foundation selection

An interview with Erica Silverman

Direct download: yjn-31.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:01 AM
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This week's link:

Hadassah

Direct download: yjn-30.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:20 AM
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This week's links:

Purim on the Neet

Judaism 101: Purim

Purim, the Festival of Lots

Purim teaching units for educators

The Megillah scroll at the Library of Congress

Wikipedia listing for Purim

Direct download: yjn-29.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:00 AM
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This week's links:

Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

Sally J. Priesand, the first female Reform rabbi

Women's Rabbinic Network

Direct download: yjn-28.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:55 AM
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This week's links:

Camp Newman and Camp Swig

URJ Camps Directory

Temple Isaiah's Camp Kefli

Camp Tawonga

Direct download: yjn-27.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:28 PM
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This week's link:

Rabbis for Human Rights

Direct download: yjn-26.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:12 PM
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This week's link:

Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace

Direct download: yjn-25.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:22 PM
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This week's links:

The government of Israel (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Background on Israeli independence

The Soviet Jewry Movement

Operation Exodus: The emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel

Wikipedia's entry for kibbutzim

Direct download: yjn-24.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:45 PM
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This week's links

Siddur: The Wikipedia entry

The new Reform Siddur

Roots of the Siddur

Marcia Falk

Direct download: yjn-23.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:11 PM
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This week's links:

Union of Reform Judaism

Temple Isaiah

Direct download: yjn-22.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:59 PM
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This week's links:

Linda Hirschhorn and Vocolot

Beth Schafer

Neshama Carlebach

Direct download: yjn-21.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:00 PM
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This week's links:

Women of Reform Judaism

Direct download: yjn-20.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:47 PM
Comments[1]

This week's links:

The Chanukah Guest

Eric A. Kimmel

Temple Isaiah's library

Direct download: yjn-19.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:49 PM
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Happy Chanukah to everybody from Temple Isaiah of Lafayette, California.

Direct download: yjn-18.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:29 PM
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Torah cantillation is the art of changing scripture. Cantor Korn explains its origins and provides examples.

This week's links:

The Art of Torah Cantillation (Book)

Toledot, Genesis Chapter 25, verse 19

Haftorah Malachi chapter 1

Tisha B'av

Book of Lamentations

Direct download: yjn-17.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:33 PM
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