Good Monday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Jewish Federations of North America Chair Julie Platt being named interim chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s board of trustees, and feature an opinion piece by Steven Windmeuller and one by Rabbi Ana Bonnheim and Avidan Halivni. Also.
The institute, which is committed to gender equality, LGBTQ inclusion and reaching Jews across denominations, will wait until it gathers another cohort that can execute its vision
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“At a moment where the Jewish community needs as many talented, knowledgeable and educated rabbis as we can train… there’s a need for some experimentation here,” Koch Epstein said.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced synagogues to take programming online, Temple Kol Ami’s Rabbi Jeremy Schneider was already using online platforms for Hebrew instruction and was keen to investigate more
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Rabbi Julie Kozlow said she’s broken out of the traditional rabbinical box and is creating a more spiritually productive Jewish congregation. She said the new group, called “The Community,” founded
mishpocheh. Her “Employee of the Month” series of chats at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub in downtown Manhattan featured sassy challenges to celebrity interviewees like the Jewish playwright Wallace Shawn, who in September 2014 languidly claimed to have considered a job as a taxi driver decades earlier. Lazarus brightly retorted, “I just can’t imagine you driving a cab; you would go so slow!” Then she collapsed with laughter at the mere idea of the lethargic Shawn pitted against the hurly-burly of Manhattan traffic. Or in September 2015, when the personal shopper and stylist Betty Halbreich of German Jewish origin, profanely dissed the sister of her friend Joan Rivers. Lazarus retorted to Halbreich with an ironic grin, “I can see why you and Joan were good friends.”