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Rabbi Mark Cohn will leave Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem after leading the synagogue for nearly 21 years
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In ‘Can Robots Be Jewish?’ rabbis weigh in on a Jewish pastime: disagreement
The questions in this collection, part of Moment Magazine’s long-running feature ‘Ask the Rabbis,’ offer a model for what is fundamental to Judaism. Image courtesy of Creative Commons
December 16, 2020
(RNS) It is an axiom of Jewish life that Jews love to disagree.
There’s the famous Jewish joke about a shipwrecked Jewish sailor on a desert island who builds two synagogues the one where he prays and the one he won’t set foot in.
Or take Hanukkah, the eight-day holiday, which ends Friday (Dec. 18). Some Jews view it as theologically breezy, a “holiday of lights,” full of spinning dreidels and jelly doughnuts. Others view it more seriously, as a ponderous morality tale about the triumph of religious fundamentalism over assimilation.