Number 246 - 2014/03               January 20, 2014                       Shevat 19, 5774

Jewish Rock with Rick Recht

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Sunday, January 19

"The ethnic Musicals: assimilation and Integration" at the Public Library

Monday, January 20

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

Tuesday, January 21

Meeting at 110 S Grand Avenue with HVCC and JCCDC leadership. Open to the whole community. Come, listen, ask questions.

Wednesday, January 22

JFS/JCCDC Lunch and Learn

TBE Gesher School

PJ Library Parenting program for Jewish Families

Thursday, January 23

Rabbi Neal Class on The Kings of Israel

Rabbi Kaplan's class on the Book of Exodus

Saturday, January 25

TBE Shabbath Mischpachah

Speaker on Jewish Travel at Vassar Temple

Sunday, January 26

"Restyling the Borscht Belt - New Jews on the American stage" at the Public Library

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BLOGGING JEWISH IN DUTCHESS

My four grandparents were born in little villages (shtetls) in the Pale of Settlement in Czarist Russia. When I was growing up I often asked them about life in what I saw as a mythical land lost in the fogs of years past. One of the areas that interested me the most was how did Jews remain Jewish in those days, given that many of them where non observant.

Their answers were somehow different, but they all boiled down to one central idea: Jews were Jews because it was what Jews did. What they meant was that if you were born a Jew, you were a Jew. In their days, the idea of breaking with one's group was a difficult one to accept (although many did). In their days, if you wanted to break with the Jewish community you needed to be proactive in doing it. You needed to convert or at the very least abandon the shtetl and leave your Jewish “baggage” behind. Things have changed.

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