"You're Jewish now?" Vox 2008-01-25T02:21:01Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4142acd2e685e/ a convert's journey Notes 10/30 tag:vox.com,2007-10-30:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b865f90004 2007-10-30T21:42:12Z 2008-01-25T02:21:01Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

wax on, wax off

Target sells menorahs and Hanukkah swag? Holy Jewish Christmas, Batman! Interestingly enough, at the Culver City Target, the Hanukkah stuff is kept in the "party" aisle between the greeting cards and the school supplies... Merry mazel tov -- Th...

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]]> O Jerusalem! tag:vox.com,2007-10-30:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b867330005 2007-10-30T20:47:18Z 2007-11-09T22:25:03Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

O Jerusalem O Jerusalem Trailer Matisyahu Jerusalem West Bank Story Trailer

I finally got around to cracking Larry Collins' and Dominique Lapierre's classic 1972 book O Jerusalem!, an exhaustively researched, "day by day and minute by minute" account of Israel's War of Independence and the creation of the State of Israel...

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]]> The story of the Jews, and a poem! tag:vox.com,2007-10-26:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b704b70005 2007-10-26T17:19:56Z 2007-10-26T17:23:34Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literatu

In last night's class, Rabbi Singer made an interesting statement: in modern times, the "story" of the Jews has become the tragedy of the Shoah (Holocaust). But that's not the story we need to tell. We need to reclaim the story of Exodus as our ce...

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]]> JP: Judaism is not a race tag:vox.com,2007-10-26:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b700810003 2007-10-26T16:31:21Z 2007-10-26T16:32:45Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Saul Singer's column in yesterday's Jerusalem Post highlights a few (common?) responses from readers who objected to his claim that anti-conversion attitudes now threaten Jewish survival in the modern world. There is nothing sacred about the birt...

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]]> The Tribe tag:vox.com,2007-10-26:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b6b3030002 2007-10-26T00:28:52Z 2007-10-26T00:39:14Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Tribe (Trailer)

I downloaded a great short film called "The Tribe" from the iTunes store today (only $1.99!) It only scratches the surface of the topic it begins with--how the quintessential Aryan female ideal was created by a Jewish woman--a cultural outsider-...

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]]> Printed word tag:vox.com,2007-10-24:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b643cc0001 2007-10-24T21:00:06Z 2007-10-24T23:56:34Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I'm a child of the digital revolution through-and-through, but I still adore print media--newspapers, magazines, periodicals, etc. I scan the LA Times cover to cover before bed and find escapist pleasures in publications like Wired and dwell. Mayb...

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]]> Notes 10/23 tag:vox.com,2007-10-23:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398b601e70005 2007-10-23T18:55:19Z 2007-10-23T19:27:31Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Crazy, crazy times--why is it so hard to settle down and catch your breath? School, work, the remodel, classes, homework... My wife said something that made me smile the other day after a ridiculously exhausting weekend: "this Shabbat thing isn...

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]]> Join us Thursday at Temple Emanuel! tag:vox.com,2007-10-01:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398ae80880003 2007-10-01T22:16:45Z 2007-10-01T22:26:16Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've signed up for a "Part II" Intro to Judaism class at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills; however, if they can't get 10-12 students (the first class is this Thursday), the class will be canceled. Which would blow, because I'm really looking forwar...

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]]> (Horror) stories tag:vox.com,2007-09-26:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398acd0600004 2007-09-26T21:17:53Z 2007-10-01T22:18:27Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've become quite interested in reading blog entries and articles about attitudes of born Jews toward Jews-by-choice. While my own current experience would lump me, currently, with the more-or-less insecure (but not insincere!) lot of proselytes-...

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]]> Catching up tag:vox.com,2007-09-25:asset-6a00d4142acd2e685e00e398ac66df0002 2007-09-25T23:48:26Z 2007-09-26T21:24:17Z Ger Toshav http://gertoshav.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom It's really been stressing me out that I have not updated this blog most of the summer, and I apologize to the four or so people who actually read it (har har), but after the Idaho trip it was non-stop craziness: back-to-school time for my son, mu...

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