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Created by Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, the cards aim to inspire Jewish youngsters by helping them put faces to the names they learn in Hebrew school. Shugarman started a nonprofit company called Torah Personalities, which now distributes the cards. The most coveted one: Moshe Feinstein of New York City, an expert on Jewish law who died...
...Orthodox Jew named Stephen Mernick. The reticent 34-year-old Toronto businessman reportedly underwent intensive religious training and holds rabbinical ordination but has never led a synagogue. Meticulously observant, Mernick attends daily synagogue prayers and declined to visit his South Carolina kingdom last week because it was Simhath Torah, celebrating God's gift...
...full-year courses for the Divinity School beginning this September. One, called "Judaism: The Liturgical Year", will focus on the Jewish calendar and how Jewish texts are intergrated into the Jewish lifestyle and history. The other class will be a seminar focusing on the first 11 books of the Torah and how their original "contexts" have been perceived throughout history, he said...
...Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Me., as a child, and he emerged, in the eyes of his faith, a man. Serious duties replaced the weightlessness of his younger years. As a child, Josh had listened to Scripture and learned; as an adult, Josh is allowed to read from the Torah so that he can pass on his family's faith to a new generation...
Others make the best of an otherwise dreary commute. Zern says she uses her time on the bus to read daily portions of the Torah, and Petipas says she often meets "interesting" people on the bus, such as "one woman who sat next to me and screamed to me that I was Jewish and she hated Jews. I had to move to another seat...