Our
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For
many years Jewish young and not-so-young individuals have been
affected by, and felt the need to respond to, many
issues.
Some
of them were personal – domestic abuse and divorce, mental and
physical healthcare, drugs and alcohol abuse, the role of women in
society, public school education and childcare, support and
assistance for elderly parents and family members, isolation and
alienation and careers and employment, ways to celebrate Jewish
holidays and life-cycle events such as a Bar/t
Mitzvah.
Some
community issues affected them but more indirectly: i.e., poverty,
discrimination against blacks and minorities; environmental
protection; unavailable decent, safe and sanitary housing;
homelessness; hunger, immigration and vehicles for making charitable
contributions.
Other issues were global but not necessarily of
less concern – the war in
Iraq
and the continuing
conflict in Israel/Palestine.
Far
too many have, for a variety of reasons, decided that Judaism is
irrelevant to the search for solutions to these problems and no
longer consider themselves Jewish. Over half of all Jewish
individuals intermarry and, of these, fewer than half raise their
children Jewish.
Our
efforts are based on the belief that through an examination of the
moral and ethical teachings of Judaism, you will become familiar
with values, laws and principles; will apply them as you address
your concerns, be they personal (family and work), community (local
and national) or global (Iraq and Israel/Palestine); and will then
appreciate how relevant and meaningful Judaism can
be.
Ron
Fox and Joan Fox
PLEASE READ ABOUT OUR
APPROACH
We want to acknowledge our appreciation
to Saul Zalesne and Emes Editions Limited for giving us permission to use the
beautiful artwork by Mordechai Rosenstein on this website. If you are
interesting in seeing more of his works and possibly purchasing them,
visit
Emes Editions Limited.
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