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Kulanu Winter 2005
Helping Lost Jewish Communities 11603 Gilsan Street Silver Spring, MD 20902-3122 KULANU TEL: 301-681-5679 FAX: 301-593-1911 http://www.kulanu.org “all of us” [email protected] Volume 12 Number 4 Winter 2005—2006 New Seder Reading — see page 12 Bnei Menashe Respond to Halt of Conversions in India The Jerusalem Post reported on November 9, 2005, that sentiment of the Bnei Menashe Community here. It must be Israel had acceded to India’s demands to stop converting 7000 realized that injustice and discrimination have been caused Indian citizens who are practicing Bnei Menashe Jews. Six by the lack of understanding and absence of even the mini- rabbis had been in India since September and had already for- mum effort to comprehend the true role of the Rabbis mally converted 200. India opposes “proselytizing.” from Israel who have been visiting the Community here. Expressing the outrage of the Bnei Menashe, many of whom have been practicing Judaism and awaiting the opportu- 3. It must be clarified at the outset that the Rabbis have nity to immigrate to Israel for 10 years, T. Aviel Hangshing, never indulged in the business of conversion, not to talk of president of the Bnei Menashe Council in India, wrote to the Aggressive Conversion or Proselytisation of any degree. Indian Government to clarify the matter and to the Israeli Gov- Not even ONE person from any other religion has ever ernment with a request to reconsider the matter. He urges Jew- been converted to Judaism by the Rabbis. If conversion ish leaders in the US to pressure Israel to allow the rabbis to means the process of changing one’s religion, this is continue their work in India. -
REVIEWS November/December 2015 Volume V, No
Association of Jewish Libraries REVIEWS November/December 2015 Volume V, No. 4 In The Spotlight Adler, David A. Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles. Illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler. Springfield, NJ: Apples & Honey Press, 2015. 32 pp. $17.95. (9781681155005). Preschool–Gr. 2. Sara lives in a big city (New York?) in an apartment she shares with her mother and grandmother. She watches from the window as her mom goes to work. One day, she sees an old man in a yellow, green, and red plaid coat. He picks up a bruised apple from the discarded pile near Sol’s Market. As Sara eats her breakfast, she wonders if the man is hungry. As she shares Shabbat dinner with her mother and grandmother, she wonders if he’s lonely. Step by step, Sara, her family, her classmates, and her synagogue community demonstrate small acts of kindness: a packed lunch one day leads to a succession of food for the man to eat. As Hanukkah approaches, Sara makes a menorah at school. Her menorah from last year, as well as candles, latkes, and Hanukkah cookies with sprinkles, are left for the man. But that’s not all. The man, whom the rabbi introduces as Morris Berger, is invited for Shabbat/Hanukkah dinner. After dinner, Morris teaches magic tricks to Sara and tells lots of stories about the time when he worked in the circus. Morris, who was a stranger and has now become a friend, will be invited for many more dinners. Oftentimes, stories about giving tzedakah (charity) are heavy-handed and pedantic. Then along comes a jewel of a story that shows how this mitzvah enriches the giver as well as the receiver. -
Winter 2001—2002
Helping Lost Jewish Communities 11603 Gilsan Street Silver Spring, MD 20902-3122 KULANU TEL: 301-681-5679 FAX: 301-681-1587 http://www.kulanu.org “all of us” [email protected] Volume 8 Number 4 Winter 2001—2002 Kulanu Establishes New Surfing to Uganda Online Boutique By Moshe Cotel By the time you sit down in your easy chair to read this article, I Tamar Kemp and Harriet Bograd have become the cherished vol- will be, if God wills it, in rural Eastern Uganda, far from paved roads unteer proprietors of Kulanu’s new Online Boutique. The Boutique’s and modern civilization, working with an isolated community of 600 website is now — or soon will be — located at http://www. black Jews called the Abayudaya - the only Jews to be found in this KulanuBoutique.com. The Boutique will be offering the same items entire African nation of 22 million people. we have in the past plus some new ones -- tallitot, kippot, challah cov- The Abayudaya are native Ugandans who have been practicing ers, books, music -- items that are hand crafted or designed by our Judaism for several generations - ever since their leader, a local gover- various communities, such as the Abayudaya, the Sefwi Wiawso Jews, nor named Semei Kakungulu, studied and meditated upon the Old and the Bnei Menashe. Testament around 1919. He circumcised himself and his son -- and all Kemp will be designated as the Kulanu Vice President for Bou- his male followers did the same -- and they embraced the observance tique Sales and Marketing and Bograd will be her chief supporter, and of all the laws of Moses as expounded in the Bible.