Mark Asher Goodman News Today

JTA illustration by Mollie Suss. Every few years I put out a call asking what people will be reading in preparation for the High Holidays, and usually one book tops the list: “This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation,” by the late Rabbi Alan Lew.

Every few years, I ask what people are reading to prep for High Holidays, and one book tops the list: “This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared” by the late Rabbi Alan Lew.

The book is distinctly Goodman-esque, with Talmudic readings from Hasidic masters set alongside lyrics from rappers the Wu-Tang Clan.

At Jewish day schools in the Bay Area, security has long been top of mind. But with incidents like the shooting in Uvalde, comes a new challenge: helping students process horrifying current events.

With survivors dying and deniers growing, organizers of an Erie event say its important to remember the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies has lowered its tuition to $7,000 amid dwindling attendance and fewer rabbinical students overall, in the hopes of setting an upward trend

Ziegler’s new tuition is $7,000 a year, down from $31,342 this year. The change makes the school just 20% the price of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.

“The letter was written so that Rabbis would see other Rabbis agree with them,” said David Bernstein.

The Jewish News of Northern California

“The letter was written so that Rabbis would see other Rabbis agree with them,” said David Bernstein.