B'Soch Ha'Emek

Into the Midst of the Valley is a resource for Jews in and visiting the Metro Phoenix Area.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

It's a dry heat...or so I thought

Back from Yeshiva once more, the weather in New York and Phoenix has been shockingly similar. Weird.

On the horizon, the community is currently hosting multiple programs of SEED (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah_Umesorah). Though they are leaving soon...well can't win'em all.

Young Israel has a new site which is pretty spiffy. http://yiphoenix.org/ By the way, a welcome to Rabbi Gross to the community from all of me at B'Soch Ha'Emek!

Their is a new kosher store (something like Kosher Korner) on 7th Street and Maryland. I have no idea about it nor have I spoken to anyone who has been inside. Hopefully, more to follow.

King Solomon's and Segal's are looking nicer with some renovations. Nice.


Jewish News of Phoenix is a funloving as ever. Check out this block from the end of an editorial (the one that the publisher writes) about the recent death of Sherwin Wine, the "Atheist Rabbi".
In Israel, where Humanistic Judaism has taken root, the notion of Judaism without God is woven into the very fabric of the state. Doubtless many Americans, Jewish and non, were shocked in the 1960s by Wine's idea of Judaism without God. But the members of the early 20th-century European Zionist youth group Blau-Weiss, who went picnicking on Yom Kippur in defiance of what they were taught to consider antiquated religious superstition, would find Sherwin Wine's philosophy much more familiar than the kind of ultra-Orthodoxy that too often holds sway in the contemporary State of Israel.
The Culture Club

I know the Jewish News is a "community" paper, but I am suprised their selling point is to those who defiantly eat on Yom Kippur (I mean eating is one thing out of ignorance but defiantly...hello). Who cares they'd like Wine better than Orthodoxy, so would Jews who don't like Judaism!

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