Celtic Judaism

Rally in support of Israel’s war in Gaza in NYC
Photo is by Dan Sieradski of the rally for Israel in New York on January 6th 2009, he has even more on Flickr, as well.

via bauldoff:
Matisyahu deployed what may be the only large, mirrored, rotating dreidel in show business — a Jewish answer to a disco ball — at Webster Hall on Sunday night, the first night of Hanukkah. How could I not blog that? (thanks, John and John!)

There will be two films with Jewish interest released in the US during the end of December:

I hadn’t heard of Defiance until a week or two ago when I stumbled across a book of the same title, which boasted how it was now a major motion picture. “In WWII Russia, Jewish refugees band together into [...]

Please cut me some slack! I am very late to the game– I just discovered G-dcast tonight. I’d heard about it across various Jewish blogs, but I figured I wouldn’t like it. (I hate audio/visual presentations and favor the written word.) I was totally wrong, it’s really neat.
The premise is to cover the Torah portion [...]

During the time I spent streaming CNN-IBN and CNN International online to get up-to-the-minute information on the Mumbai attacks, I had a bad feeling about the people in the Chabad House. After looking at the pictures of the aftermath, it was sickening, but not surprising, to hear that the terrorists had treated the Jewish victims [...]

I hadn’t heard of this earlier, but I could also just be the last person to find out: President-elect Barack Obama’s cousin-in-law is an African-American Jewish rabbi, Capers Funnye. I really like one of his quotes in the article:
“I often like to tell new people that when you start studying Judaism, every time you get [...]

Not Irish, but could possibly be “Celtic” in a stretch of the definition: a Tartan kippah!
Tartan being the plaid fabric you see on Scottish kilts. 100% Scottish wool woven in Scotland.

Some commentors at FailedMessiah are questioning the conversion to Judaism prior to their wedding of Rahm Emanuel’s wife, Amy Rule. They are of the “if it’s not Orthodox, it doesn’t count” approach towards conversion. Given that Rahm Emanuel and his family are active members of a Modern-Orthodox synagogue, with children attending a Jewish day school, [...]