I never thought about my lack of Judaic knowledge until recently. I know I’m an am ha’aretz in terms of scholarship and couldn’t pick up a gemara and just lain from it, but what I’m really talking about is the…
Tag: non-observant
Orthodox Judaism is not for everyone
The whole concept of being off the derech bothers me because in my opinion there is no right derech, if we call those who aren’t observant or don’t follow the ways that they were brought up in we feel the…
My first Lubavitcher
Guest post by Jeremy Shadow Despite currently being a neo-pagan, I was born and raised a Conservative Jew in South Orange New Jersey. South Orange is a friendly little community somewhat close to Newark. After the Newark Riots, when Jews…
I went to my first Egalitarian minyan and it was interesting
I think the last time I put on something that I would have called shabbos shorts was in the mid 1980’s, you know, those dark shorts that covered your knees that you wore to shabbos parties that gave out pekalechs…