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In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, we are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services. This installment features the Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Judy Shanks. Please be sure to visit our official home on at the web at:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org 

In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, we are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services. This installment features the Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Judy Shanks. Please be sure to visit our official home on at the web at:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org 

In this special series of podcasts, all falling under the umbrella of episode #238, we are proud to offer the four serllmons from Temple Isaiah's High Holy Days services. This installment features the Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Judy Shanks. Please be sure to visit our official home on at the web at:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org

Please visit our official home:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Yizkor, the Memorial Service, from My Jewish LearningYizkor, from Jewish Virtual LibraryYizkor: Just the Basics, from My KaddishThe Yizkor Book ProjectYizkor: Online Yahrzeit Reminder & Memorials, from ORTVideo: Yizkor for Martyrs, a memorial concert by David Chevan 

Be sure to visit our home site:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: Havdalah, from the Jewish Virtual Library Havdalah: Taking Leave of Shabbat, from My Jewish Learning The Magic of Havdalah Havdalah Blessings The Havdalah Ceremony: Distinctions and origins Making Havdalah Simply (video)

Be sure to visit us at our official home:YourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: The ABC's of the Total Physical Response Wikipedia listing on TPR Your TPR Source TPR and Language Acquisition (Video) Total Physical Response: A Short Introduction (PDF)

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Be sure to visit us at our official website:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Passover Music from TheHolidaySpot.com Alan Eder and Friends Debbie Friedman's website Passover Music from Kosher4Passover.com A downloadable PDF Passover Haggadah

Be sure to visit us at our official home:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: Alternative Models for Jewish Education, from the Rejewvenate! blog Outcome-based education, a description from Wikipedia Jewish Educational TrendsJewish Education Change NetworkTemple Isaiah's Religious School

Be sure to visit our official home:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Hebrew Project Wiki Hebrew Language, resources from the University of Texas at Austin Hebrew Blackboard, Hebrew teaching resources What Happened to 'Hebrew' in Hebrew School? Expriment in Congregational Education The Jewish Education Project

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home: YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's one and only link: Temple Isaiah: Celebrating 60 Years

Please visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Anti-Defamation League What is Anti-Semitism?, from the ADL Anti-Semitic violence doubled in 2009, from the Jerusalem Post The shocking statistics ab out anti-Semitism in America, YouTube video FBI's 2010 hate crime statistics from ACoordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism Public education Campaign to End Campus Anti-Semitism, from the US Commission on Civil Rights Simon Wiesenthal Center

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official website: www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links Chanukah, from the Jewish Virtual Library Rabbis shed light on Chanukah's importance, from the Palm Beach Daily News The Meaning of Chanukah, from Being Jewish Eight Days of Chanukah -- What's the Spiritual Significance, from aJudaica.com Judaism 101: Chanukah Chanukah, American Style, from the American Jewish Historical Society

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official home:YourJewishNeighborhood.org This weeks links: The URJ's Campaign for Youth Engagement Jewish Parents: how to Get Teens to Keep Engaged After 13, from Radical parenting Preventing Post B'nai Mitzvah Dropout-itis, from Reform Judaism Online Study Finds 'Man Crisis' in Liberal Jewish Circles Keeping Our Kids on the Derech, an Orthodox perspective

Visit the official home of Your Jewish Neighborhood: www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Who Reads Synagogue Newsletters? Marketing the Shul: What's Working and What Needs to Work U.S. Synagoges Lag in Use of Web and Social Media Technologies Temple Isaiah's Facebook page Rabbi Judy Shanks on Twitter

Visit our official website at: www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Questions and answers about Selichot from the Orthodox Union Selichot: Prayers of Repetence, from MyJewishLearning.com Selicot at the Western Wall, from YouTube When do we begin saying Selichot and why?, from AskMoses.com Music of Selichot and the High Holy Days from Sinai Temple, Springfield, MA Selichot for iPhone and iPad, from The Jewish iPhone Magazine

Visit the official home of Your Jewish Neighborhood for show notes and more: www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org Hebrew Numbers Numbers in Hebrew Video Lesson: Hebrew 101 - Numbers & Days The Confusion of Hebrew Numbers Kabbalah: Meaning of Numbers Symbolism of "Chai", 18

Please visit the official YJN website:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Arab Spring spells uncertainty for Israel, from BBC Israel's Arab Spring?, from The Huffington Post Israel must not ignore the Arab Spring, from Haaretz.com Israeli Summer is no Arab Spring, from USA Today What the Arab Spring Means for Israel and Palestine, from NPR Has the Arab Spring arrived in Israel?, from Al Jazeera English

Be sure to visit our official website atYourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: The apocalypse in Judaism from Jewish Encyclopedia Apocalypse Then, from Reform Judaism magazine Revelation/Apocalypse vs. Torah Prophesies? Apocalyptic Literature in the Old Testament and Early Judaism, a bibliography Apocalypses and the Apocalypse, from Messianic Jewish Musings Jewish End of Days, a blog dedicated to "a Jewish perspective on the end times and the coming of the Messiah" Judaism section of the Wikipedia listing for "End Time" Mashiach: The Messiah listing from Judaism 101

Be sure to visit our official home:YourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: The Castle on Hester Street on Amazon.com Reviews and discussions of The Castle on Hester Street Linda Heller's Website

Be sure to visit the official home of Your Jewish Neighborhood: www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Satan from JewishEnyclopedia.com Jews believe in The Satan, and not in the devil, from WhatJewsBelieve.org Do Jews Believe in Satan? from About.com Does Judaism Believe in Satan? from BeingJewish.com

Be sure to visit our official home: YourJewishNeighborhood This week's links How to Make Shabbat More Meaningful Top Ten Ways to Make Shabbat a Fun Family Celebration "Get Off the Internet, It's Shabbat!" Is it considered Melacha to use the internet on Shabbat? Shabbat in the Community Reimagining Shabbat, by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffe

Be sure to visit our official home for more detailed show notes: YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Relgious Action Center RAC Facebook page Temple Isaiah's Confirmation program

Be sure to visit our official home:YourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: Passover tunes (the source for this week's music)Jewish music, including Sephardic tunes Passover songs and musicMusic for PassoverPassover Music (from Holiday Spot)

Find our official podcast home at:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links:   Preparing For A Rabbinic Sabbatical From The Perspective Of The Congregational Leadership, from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Sabbatical Preparations, from Rabbi Adam Morris of Denver, Colorado's Temple Micah Rabbinic Sabbatical Overview (PDF) Official Bhutan website Bhutan Travel Information and Travel Guide from Lonely Planet

Be sure to visit us at our official home: www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Saving Israel, by Daniel Gordis (from the right) Saving Israel on Amazon.com Reviews of "Saving Israel The Holocaust is Over, by Avraham Burg (from the left) The Independent's feature story on "The Holocaust is Over" The Holocaust is Over on Amazon.com

Visit us at our official home:YourJewishNeighborhood This week's links: What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism A Yahoo Answers contribution Jewish Answers to Christian Questions Our Christan Friends

Please be sure to visit our official home: Your Jewish Neighborhood This week's links: American Cantors to Perform at Vatican, from The Jewish Week Cantor Sally Neff's Vatican Audition (video) 20 Jewish cantors walk into a church -- it's no joke, from JTA American Conference of Cantors

Be sure to visit our official home: YourJewishNeighborhood This week's links: How can I explain death to my Jewish grandchild? from "Ask the Reform Rabbi" Life, Death and Mourning, from Judaism 101 A Time to Grieve, A Time to Teach, from The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism The Jewish Bereavement Project How to Talk to Your Kids about Death, from the Jewish Journal Jewish Beliefs on the Afterlife, from Religion Facts

Visit us at our official home:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org  This week's links: What does Judaism say about bullying? from Moment magazine Bullying is Antithetical to Judaism from JewishWeek Behind Bullying, from Reform Judaism Bullies Among Us, from Jewish Journal Help Stop Bulling, a Jewish Federation initiative focused on LGBT bullying There's No Place for Bullying in God's World, from Jewish Exponent

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Wikipedia listing for the Maccabees Behaving like Maccabees, Beliefnet article in acting more like Maccabees than ancient Greeks Hanukkah Lessons for Today, from Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center Maccabees re-establish independence in the land of Israel, from Jewish Agency for Israel Christmas-izing of Chanukah, from Jewish Journal

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home:www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: By Fire, By Water, by Mitchell James Kaplan, at Amazon.com Video promo for By Fire, By Water Angels in Judaism, an overview by Judy Silver Index of Wikipedia listings for Angels in Judaism Angels in Jewish Tradition, by Rabbi David Wolpe, on BeliefNet

Be sure to visit our official website at: Your Jewish Neighborhood This week's links: A Definition of Zionism from the Jewish Virtual Library Zionism on the Web A definition and history of Zionism from MideastWeb.org Jews Against Zionism, an alternative point of view Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism, from Wikipedia

  Visit our official website at www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Decorate Your Sukkah, from Simply Manischewitz Decorating the Sukkah, from Sukkot.com Easy and Inspiring Sukkah Decorations Need some ideas for Skukkah Decorations? Homemade Sukkah Decoration Crafts for Sukkot

Be sure to visit us at our official home at www.yourjewishneighborhood.org! This week's links: Temple Isaiah's music programs for kids and teens Places to study Jewish music Milken Archive of Jewish Music Jewish Music that Doesn't Kid Around, article from The Jewish Week Wikipedia listing for cantillation

Please visit our official website:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Divorce, from the Jewish Virtual Library The Jewish Divorce Getting a Get, from Ask the Rabbi Jewish Divorce Law from WomensLaw.org How to Get a Jewish Divorce from eHow

Visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official site:www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Wikipedia listing for Tu B'Av A Day of Love from My Jewish Learning Jewish Valentine's Day Tu B'Av Still Eludes Definition, 1997 article from J Weekly The Great Tu B'Av Project

Please visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official home:www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Kosher Prague Wikipedia Listing for The Old-New Synagogue in Prague The Spanish Synagogue in Prague Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery Prague Jewish MuseumTour Guide Lenka Martinkova's Website

Visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official home:www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Tour guide Lenka Martinkova's website Virtual Jewish History tour of Prague Jewish Magazine article, Prague and the Jews Contemporary Jewish Culture in Prague Judaism listing in the Portal of Prague

Please be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official home:www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Cantor Korn chants the V'Ahavta; transliteration included V'Ahavta lessons, from Torah Focus Mi Chamoca, chanted by former Temple Isaiah Cantor Chanin Becker, with transliteration included Fusion: Tradition and Change in Synagogue Music, from the United Synagogue Review

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home:http://www.yourjewishneighborhood.org This week's links: Wikipedia listing for Sandalphon Archaeon Sandalphon from Inner Light-Workers Sandalphon, the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sandalphon: Facts, Discusion Forum and Encyclopedia Article The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in its entirety, from Google Books

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home. This week's links: History of the Jews in Latin America, from Wikipedia Progressive Judaism on the Map in Argentina The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Brazil The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Argentina Are the Jews of Argentina Disappearing?

Please visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home:YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Congregation Tzur Hadassah, Temple Isaiah's twinning partner YJN #141, our first discussion on synagogue twinning URJ page on twinning

Please visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its regular home:YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: History of Reform Judaism's position on homosexuality, from ReligiousTolerance.org Gays & Lesbians Under the Chupah, from Reform Judaism Magazine Judaism and Same-sex Marriage, from MyJewishLearning.com Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism page on LGBT rights The REform Movement on LGBT Issues, from Jewish Mosaic, the National Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity

Please visit the official home of Your Jewish Neighborhood for complete show notes and more! This week's links: The Jewish response to natural disasters On Judaism: When disaster strikes, from the Jerusalem Post Is God in Haiti?, from Reform Judaism blog The Jewish way of responding to natural disasters

Be sure to visit the official home of Your Jewish Neighborhood. This week's links: Detailed information about Tefillin from Judaica Guide Video tutorial on putting on Tefillin from YouTube The Mitzvah of Tefillin from BeingJewish.com Prayers for putting on Tefillin from Judaism 101 Meditation for Tefillin from "The Torah: A Women's Commentary"

Visit us at our official website, www.YourJewishNeigbhborhood.org This week's links: Judaism 101's entry on Tu B'Shevat a Tu B'Shevat rap from the JNF on YouTube A Tu B'Shevat seder (downloadable PDF) Another Tu B'Shevat seder Tu B'Shevat recipe index

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home, YourJewishNeighborhood.org.This week's links: P'tach Libeynu, Temple Isaiah's mental illness support program Overcoming the stigma of mental illness, from The Mayo Clinic NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Judaism and Mental Illness, from My Jewish Learning

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at its official home:www.yourjewishneighborhood.orgThis week's links: Resilience of the Soul, from URJ Books How to begin a Resilience of the Soul Program, from the URJ The Jewish Publication Society

Be sure to visit Your Jewish Neighborhood at our official home, www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org This week's links: Rosh Chodesh explained by Judaism 101 Wikipedia listing for Rosh Chodesh Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing Moving Traditions Rosh Chodesh at Temple Isaiah