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Iceland has finally recognized Judaism as a religion. The process took over a year and, despite being home to a small Jewish community, Iceland has never before acknowledged the religion. Recognition was finally awarded on March 8. The country has only one rabbi, Avi Feldman, who initiated the Chabad Lubavitch of Iceland in 2018. Feldman […]
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Iceland recognizes Judaism as a religion
March 19th, 2021 
Awake Goy Iceland has finally recognized Judaism as a religion, as of March 8. The process took over a year and, despite being home to a Jewish community, Iceland has never before acknowledged the religion. The country has only one Rabbi, Avi Feldman, who initiated the Chabad Lubavitch of Iceland in 2018. Feldman and the community members […]
Is oath-taking permitted in Judaism
March 15th, 2021 Awake Goy March 15, 2021 by Rabbi Raymond Apple Read on for article Ask the Rabbi. Rabbi Raymond Apple OATHS Q. I recently heard that a rabbi declined to take an oath in a law court, claiming it was contrary to his religious belief, and insisted on making an affirmation. Surely taking an oath is permitted by […]
Immigrating to Israel made me renounce Judaism
February 28th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
Natan Slifkin: Rationalist Judaism
February 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Picks Latest Articles Source
Neal Shusterman on Judaism, the Pandemic, and his Latest Book
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Neal Shusterman is a Jewish literary powerhouse. During a career spanning over two decades, the award-winning author has produced multiple best-selling YA novels, including the bone-chilling “Unwind” series, the enthralling “Scythe” trilogy and the spectacular “Challenger Deep.” His latest novel, “Game Changer” (HarperCollins, 2021), is a creative tour de force that follows a teenage linebacker […]
CPAC cancels speaker who said Judaism is a ‘complete lie’
February 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy CPAC, the conservative political conference, has canceled the appearance of a speaker who has made several derogatory comments about Jews on social media. Young Pharaoh, an online commentator and promoter of conspiracy theories, was set to speak on a panel at CPAC, which is being held in Florida at the end of the month. The […]
The Non-Negotiable Judaism My Parents Gave Me
February 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy As I finish the year-long mourning period for my mother, Elaine Gerson Troy, I’m trying to integrate all the anecdotes, images and one-liners we have shared into a coherent story and viewpoint. When she died, it was unnerving to see this three-dimensional person reduced to tidbits, fleeting memories. This has been a year of reconstruction, […]
CNN anchor uses Trump lawyer’s Judaism to lampoon trial
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy CNN news anchor Jake Tapper taunted one of the defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump, David Schoen, after Schoen gained wide notice for covering his head with his hand whenever he drank a glass of water during the impeachment trial. Trump attorney David Schoen has left the Senate to observe the Sabbath. At synagogue […]
Jake Cohen’s Debut Cookbook is a Love Letter to His Husband, Family and Judaism
February 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Nice Jewish professional chef, Jake Cohen, always had a love for cooking. Rushing home every day as a teenager to watch “Barefoot Contessa,” the Ashkenazi foodie eventually took his hobby and turned it into a profession. He studied at the Culinary Institute of America, worked in test kitchens and restaurants around New York and eventually […]
Judaism’s Strange Gods
February 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Judaism’s Strange Gods Michael A. Hoffman, II Michael Hoffman indeed goes where few dare to go. He lists a compendium of areas and concerns about Judaism, which many never even ventured into. He shows clearly and methodically, that Talmudic Judaism is not a religion of peace, but rather a religion of anti-Goyim hatred and just […]
Free Judaism classes now permanent for potential converts
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Free Judaism classes now permanent for potential converts February 7, 2021 by Rabbi Yaakov Glasman Read on for article Two years ago St Kilda Shule launched an ambitious project to provide free Judaism classes to people wishing to convert to Judaism. David Solomon and Rabbi Yaakov Glasman with the […]
The Levites and the Kohens: The Patriarchal High Priests of Judaism
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy The Levites are members of the Hebrew tribe of Levi. They, and their tribe, are named after Levi, the third son of Jacob, and Leah. In the past, the Levites were entrusted with religious responsibilities at the Temple of Jerusalem. They were selected for the job, partly due to their lineage, and partly due to […]
As I was converting to Judaism, I found myself in a hot tub full of neo-Nazis
January 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Sundhöllen, a public swimming pool in Reykjavik, Iceland, is located at Barónsstígur 45a, 101. The building’s simple, unadorned exterior appears to be that of a government building, or perhaps a prison, and it gives no indication of the deep clear pools and smoky hot tubs hiding on the other side of its high white walls. […]
The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself
January 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / Featured Articles / The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself January 29, 2021 by Melanie Phillips – JNS.org Read on for article The mayor of Antwerp, the Belgian city that is home to about 15,000 ultra-Orthodox haredi Jews, has warned that their failure to comply […]
Carlos Escude, 72, driven to Judaism by Argentine economic crisis
January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy In April, as much of the world introduced limits on movement and commerce in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Argentinean political theorist Carlos Escude waged a one-man protest outside his home in Buenos Aires. In a video that the newspaper Perfil described as “bizarre,” Escude can be seen on the sidewalk […]
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No Comments »Giuliani doubles down, says Soros uses Judaism as ‘a shield and a sword’
December 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) — President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has a history of publicly attacking the Jewish billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros, having previously called him the “Antichrist,” saying he was “hardly a Jew” and asserting that he wanted to destroy the government because of his “sick background.” Now the former New York mayor […]
Thanksgiving in crisis: Judaism teaches us to be grateful – Opinion
November 26th, 2020 Awake Goy The medical, financial, social and emotional challenges, coupled with the stresses we are experiencing within civil society, have made this a hard time to focus on our blessings. How can we express gratitude at a time of such difficulty? Somehow we must. Our country is not in perfect shape, and our lives are at times […]
From camp ‘rabbi’ to pursuing justice: How Judaism animated Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) — In its obituary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Guardian wrote that the late Jewish Supreme Court justice “abandoned her religion.” That couldn’t be more wrong. While Ginsburg, who died Friday at age 87 after 27 years on the high court’s bench, was not known for her ritual observance, she spoke frequently about how […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: animated, bader, ginsburg, judaism, justice, pursuing, Rabbi No Comments »Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg had an intimate, yet ambivalent, relationship with Judaism and Israel
September 20th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ambivalent, bader, ginsburg, intimate, israel, judaism, Relationship No Comments »Adin Steinsaltz, a key player in Judaism’s oldest conflict
August 14th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
How They Do It– ‘The Holocaust did not legitimize Zionism…3000 years of Judaism does’
May 23rd, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,964 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/how-they-do-it-the-holocaust-did-not-legitimize-zionism-3000-years-of-judaism-does/
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: Holocaust, judaism, legitimize, years, zionism No Comments »Sex offender rabbi to be honored at Judaism second holiest site
May 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,931 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/sex-offender-rabbi-to-be-honored-at-judaism-second-holiest-site/
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: holiest, honored, judaism, offender, Rabbi, second No Comments »FLASHBACK – Judaism, Zionism and Jewish Power
April 29th, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,922 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/04/28/flashback-judaism-zionism-and-jewish-power/
The primary importance of slaughtered offerings in Judaism
April 26th, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,923 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/the-primary-importance-of-slaughtered-offerings-in-judaism/
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: importance, judaism, offerings, primary, slaughtered No Comments »Reclaiming Judaism from mystical nationalism
April 25th, 2018 Awake Goy My high school in Jerusalem was a few minutes walk from the Mt. Herzl military cemetery. Mt. Herzl is Israel’s National Cemetery. On Israel’s Memorial Day (which was celebrated in Israel last Wednesday) we attended state ceremonies there. The grounds and graves are remarkably well tended. Graceful paths curve round the hillside under a canopy […]
Judaism in Action– Israel says ‘There are no innocent people in Gaza’
April 9th, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,892 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/judaism-in-action-israel-says-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza/
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: action, innocent, israel, judaism, people, there No Comments »3,000 year old drawing of god found in Sinai could undermine our entire idea of Judaism
April 8th, 2018 Awake Goy More than four decades after its excavation wound down, a small hill in the Sinai Desert continues to bedevil archaeologists. The extraordinary discoveries made at Kuntillet Ajrud, an otherwise nondescript slope in the northern Sinai, seem to undermine one of the foundations of Judaism as we know it. Then, it seems, “the Lord our […]
Judaism, Xenophobia And Anti-Semitism
March 31st, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,889 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/judaism-xenophobia-and-anti-semitism/
Judaism–Apocalyptically dangerous Xenophobia masquerading as a system of morals
March 28th, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,887 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/judaism-apocalyptically-dangerous-xenophobia-masquerading-as-a-system-of-morals/
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