Blog Detail
Three Jews, Four Opinions
http://www.threejews.net
We are three moderate and liberal Jews who blog about why Judaism is meaningful and important. We are not Orthodox and not secular, and we discuss why.
- Added on: Jun 25th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Three Jews
- Listed in: Judaism Religion
- Tags: philosophy judaism orthodox judaism reform judaism bible criticism conservative judaism
Recent Posts
Why Hanukkah Has Nothing To Do With Christmas
Guess which Jewish holiday is most like Christmas?That's right -- Shavuot! Surprised? Don't know what Shavuot is? Read on....Several years ago, when I was a part of the Museum Minyan of Houston's Beth Yeshurun Congregation (the largest Conservativ...
David Friedman on Jewish Law and Constitutional Interpretation
David Friedman has an interesting set of posts on Jewish Law and Constitutional Interpretation and And For the Real Enthusiasts in Jewish Law, A Story. He discusses some of the broad "interpretive" techniques of the Talmud and compares them to Ameri...
Who Is A Jew? UK Courts weigh in
Last week, the New York Times reported on a British case, here:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/world/europe/08britain.html?emFor American lawyers (and Jews), the issue can be stated simply: can a Jewish high school (in this case, the Jews' Free Sch...
Gay and Orthodox
I just found a link to a new blogger who is an Orthodox YU student and is also gay. He has just started blogging about his struggles with both. The blog ishttp://anotherfrumgayjew.blogspot.com/(and Jewish Atheist provided the link through Chana / C...
Stories
XGH has a funny post about a picture of Adam and Eve from his 5 1/2 year old daughter's school. It depicted them as real people, and that bothers him a bit, although he is not sure where to go from there.The early stories in Genesis bother a lot of ...
Creation - Plants and Trees With Attitude Problems
[Note: the following is a slightly edited version of a post that I wrote for the now apparently defunct Sefer HaBloggadah.]Genesis 1:11-12 covers the creation of plants. God says make some plants, and the earth makes some plants. The story is three s...
