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Come join me for my ordination via Zoom!  Just add your preferred email to this form!

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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE ORDINATION OF

Rabbi Joshua Gischner

Sunday, May 2nd @ 10AM EDT

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If you would like to receive the Zoom link, please add your email to this form!

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You Aren’t Wasting Your 20s

It’s time to let go of our expectations of perfection.

I turned 26 and I have some thoughts.

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Hi folks!

The search for a second admin has come to a close!  Welcome @lurksin2manyfandoms to the JewishDating team!  Trained and ready, we are actively looking to match you all up! 

Have you had a chance to fill out the short JewishDating survey?

Updates to your profile?  Questions?  Message @progressivejudaism or lurksin2manyfandoms !

Here is to a 5778 filled with new matches for all!

Shavuah Tov,

PJ

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original art, photography, and writing by @miel-et-sel

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What is the most reputable Jewish charity with a focus on ending anti-Semitism that you know of?

I honestly don’t know. The Anti-Defamation League has a good reputation, but I think @progressivejudaism  or @tikkunolamorgtfo would be better at answering this. 

When I donate, I tend to donate to the Jewish National Fund, but I’ve heard troubling things about their tree-planting practices. 

The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect or the Holocaust Museum in D.C. may be good to donate to in general. 

[progressivejudaism]

If you follow this blog, please read below:

Dear beautiful followers,

After nearly 9500 followers and eight years of operating this blog, I am now reaching the end of my journey to become a rabbi.  Although my ordination is a little less than a year away, I am trying to determine the effectiveness of my continuing to thoughtfully maintain this blog.

Based off of the data I have collected over the years, I feel like the content I produce here is increasingly not as useful for the vast majority of my followers.  Weighing other creative projects to this, I feel that @progressivejudaism might have to end sometime in 2020, especially when managing this blog has become so challenging.  (I could write a book on that!)

Here is where you come in.   Please help me to determine the effectiveness of this blog by “hearting” this post if you have found the content written and reblogged here helpful, relevant to your life, and/or meaningful.  

If you would be so inclined to help me further, please answer any of the following questions privately or publicly:  What content on the PJblog do you  find to be meaningful?  Does any of it bring you joy?  Have the things I reblog/post here make you feel something deeper? If so, what?   Has the content here taught you anything new?  If so, what sort of things?  Has any content helped you to experience Jewish Community?  Has the content helped you to make the world a better place?  If so, how?   Has this blog helped you on your Jewish Journey? If so, in what ways? (Please fill in your own questions as well if you find something similarly relevant!)

From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who can help me during this very challenging decision.

Josh (PJ)

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WrestlingwithTorah.org

Upcoming LIVE Experiences

ARCHIVED Experiences

RESOURCES

Follow our new Instagram!

Video Transcription and Image Description under *Keep reading*

Video Transcription:

Josh- Hey

Rachel- Hi!

Josh- We have HUGE news to share.

Rachel- Our community’s website WrestlingwithTorah.org is live!  

Josh - We are so excited for you to keep joining us for classes, services, and more!

Rachel - And also for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur!

Josh Yes!  For 7 classes and 8 ritual services.

Rachel- Click down below to check out the website for our Live classes & services-- like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, our Archived classes, and we also have a tab filled with free online Jewish Learning resources.

Josh - And our resource section will keep growing and growing!  We are just so thrilled for you to keep joining us.  Check

J- We are so excited for you to join us.  Check out WrestlingwithTorah.org !  (And our Instagram!)

Image Description:

Red Torah scroll on a light gray background. Underneath are navy words “Wrestling with Torah.”  Underneath those are red words “Radically Inclusive Jewish Learning.”

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Jewish Trivia:  Why do we eat apples and honey on the High Holy Days?

Come join your Wrestling with Torah family for our radically inclusive High Holy Day services and classes this year!  All are welcome!

Rosh Hashanah begins Friday, September 18th.   Sign up today!

Video description below.

The video opens with a blue sky and the words “High Holy Day Trivia” and our Wrestling with Torah logo (a red Torah with the words “Wrestling with Torah: A Radically Inclusive Learning Community.”  The video pans to an image of apples and honey that turns black and white.  White words overlay the black and white image that read “Why do we eat apples & honey?”  A black screen appears with white text, which reads “Apples remind us of the round cycle of the year.”  More words flash, reading, “Honey reminds us of the sweetness of our new year.”  An image of student rabbi Josh Gischner and Rachel Abrams appears on the screen-- the image is of the couple in a forest with lots of beautiful trees.  White text overlays the image that reads “Join us. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. With Rachel and Josh.”  A beautiful image appears of a pond with some fish swimming underneath the surface of the water.  White text appears that reads “radically inclusive classes & services.  Finally our logo appears again, but this time it fills the entire screen.