Sunday, June 14, 2015

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH INTERFAITH DESTINATION WEDDING: CO-OFFICIATED

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH INTERFAITH DESTINATION WEDDING: CO-OFFICIATED
 
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HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
 
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Shalom and Greetings! Please wish Mazel tov v Siman Tov and congratulations to MAX and
 
TAMARA on their destination wedding from Kansas to Hilton Head Island, South
 
 
 
Dunes House Restaurant, with Lou Anne Takach as their great wedding planner, and JLK
 
Events with Liz Tanner Bodie and Jamie Bodie, doing the music, lighting, and photobooth. Video
 
 
 

Monday, May 25, 2015

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: KIAWAH ISLAND CHARLESTON TRADITIONAL JEWISH WEDDINGS

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: KIAWAH ISLAND
 
 CHARLESTON TRADITIONAL JEWISH
 
WEDDINGS
 
 
Shalom and greeting dear friends: Please join
 
 
Ellen and I in wishing David and Julie, from NY and
 
 
CT, who had a destination wedding Shavuot eve
 
 
 
Tov v Siman Tov and congratulations!! Just as
 
Israel, as the bride, joined with G!D, as the
 
groom, sealing their 'marriage' with the Torah,
 
 
on Shavuot, 3300+ years ago at Mt Sinai, so did
 
Julie, the bride, with David, the groom, join in
 
 
marriage, sealed with their Ketubah. Shalom
 
uvracha, chag shavuot sameach v shavuah tov!!
 
 
CONTACT RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL AT RABBIASEGAL@AOL.COM
 
 
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JEWISH WEDDINGS

 

JEWISH WEDDINGS OFFICIATED BY RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TRADITIONAL, INTERFAITH, CO-OFFICIANT, DESTINATION

"One of the Joys of being a Rabbi," says Rabbi Arthur Segal," is working closely with the bride and groom and officiating at their wedding." He can do this with couples living near by or with couples having a destination wedding in the greater beautiful Hilton Head Island area.

Rabbi Arthur Segal helps develop a custom ceremony with the couple so that each word in the ceremony rings true to them. His ceremonies can range from the very traditional to what ever the couples desires. Rabbi opines that this is the couple's special day, and to treat each wedding as unique.

For those who are having an interfaith wedding, Rabbi takes special care to respect both traditions, again with total input from the couple. He will be pleased to co-officiate at weddings, using non-Trinitarian language.

Rabbi Arthur Segal also will do recommitment marriage ceremonies with the same care as he does weddings.

Rabbi will work closely with the wedding planer and/or caterer to make sure the wedding is seamless, and the bride and groom can totally enjoy themselves on their special day.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is available, and actually prefers, to be at the rehearsal, to ensure all is going smoothly, and to get to know the bridal party, and family, before the actual wedding day.

For those that wish to have a Ketubah, rabbi will work closely to make sure everyone's name has correct calligraphy on the document, in English and Hebrew, so the signing ceremony is flawless.

For a beautiful gallery of Ketubahs go to JudaicConnection.com  (My couples receive a $15 shipping discount)

Rabbi Arthur Segal tries to limit his weddings to Hilton Head, SC, Bluffton, SC, Palmetto Bluff, SC, Savannah, GA, and Charleston, SC, but has been known to make himself available elsewhere, even out of the USA. He will also conduct weddings and recommitment ceremonies on cruise ships.

In keeping with Jewish ethics, if the couple resides in Rabbi Arthur Segal's town, Rabbi will ask, unless there are some special circumstances, if the couple has first asked the local pulpit rabbi to officiate.

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Thursday, June 4, 2015

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA: BLUFFTON SUN 6/3/15

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA: BLUFFTON SUN 6/3/15

 

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA = YIDDISH + JUDAISM MANDATORY TAUGHT

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA =

YIDDISH + JUDAISM MANDATORY TAUGHT

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
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REBBETZIN ELLEN SEGAL
HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
HILTON HEAD JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS
SAVANNAH JEWISH WEDDINGS
CHARLESTON SC AND KIAWAH AND ISLE OF PALMS JEWISH WEDDINGS
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: STALIN'S 'JEWISH UTOPIA' IN AUTONOMOUS BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: STALIN'S 'JEWISH UTOPIA'  IN AUTONOMOUS  BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL
REBBETZIN ELLEN SEGAL
HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
HILTON HEAD JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS
SAVANNAH JEWISH WEDDINGS
CHARLESTON SC AND KIAWAH AND ISLE OF PALMS JEWISH WEDDINGS
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA: HILTON HEAD SUN

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA: HILTON HEAD SUN

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL
REBBETZIN ELLEN SEGAL
HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
HILTON HEAD JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS
SAVANNAH JEWISH WEDDINGS
CHARLESTON SC AND KIAWAH AND ISLE OF PALMS JEWISH WEDDINGS
www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.com/books
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA REPLACES GOD WITH CULTURAL JUDAISM

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA REPLACES GOD WITH CULTURAL JUDAISM

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL
REBBETZIN ELLEN SEGAL
HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
HILTON HEAD JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS
SAVANNAH JEWISH WEDDINGS
CHARLESTON SC AND KIAWAH AND ISLE OF PALMS JEWISH WEDDINGS
www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.com/books
www.FaceBook.com/Arthur.L.Segal www.FaceBook.com/RabbiArthurSegalJewishSpiritualRenewal www.RabbiArthurSegal.blogspot.com
Jewish Spiritual Renewal
Jewish Renewal
Jewish Spirituality
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA

 

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN BIROBIDZHAN RUSSIA

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL
REBBETZIN ELLEN SEGAL
HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
HILTON HEAD JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS
SAVANNAH JEWISH WEDDINGS
CHARLESTON SC AND KIAWAH AND ISLE OF PALMS JEWISH WEDDINGS
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www.FaceBook.com/Arthur.L.Segal www.FaceBook.com/RabbiArthurSegalJewishSpiritualRenewal www.RabbiArthurSegal.blogspot.com
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Jewish Renewal
Jewish Spirituality
Hilton Head Island, SC; Bluffton, SC; Savannah, GA
 
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Posted by Rabbi Arthur Segal at 1:56 PM

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

AUTONOMOUS JEWISH STATE STILL EXISTS IN 21ST CENTURY RUSSIA

BLUFFTON SUN, BLUFFTON SC, HILTON HEAD SC, JUNE 3, 2015 EDITION

RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL

Shalom and peace:

In our journey though Jewish international communities, let us study the relatively unknown Jewish Autonomous Oblast (State) of Birobidzhan in Eastern Russia on the Chinese border, founded in 1934 with 18,000 Jews. In May 1928 the first group of Jews from western Russia arrived.  It was founded by Stalin to 'pursue Yiddish cultural heritage.' By 1948, 30,000 Jews lived there. The ''USA Communist Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union'' successfully encouraged America Jews' immigration.

Stalin set up a "Soviet Zion", where Jewish culture developed with Yiddish, not Hebrew nor Russian, as the state language.  Jewish literature and arts (so-called Cultural Judaism) would replace God, religion and Zionism.  Birobidzhan was important for propaganda purposes as an argument against Zionism which was a rival ideology to Marxism among left-wing Jews.

Stalin used massive propaganda to induce more Jewish settlers. Posters and Yiddish-language novels described a socialist Jewish utopia. Leaflets from an airplane were dropped over USSR Jewish neighborhoods. Stalin produced a Yiddish film,'' Seekers of Happiness,'' of an American Jewish family fleeing the Depression to live a happy life in Birobidzhan.

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, theater, schools, synagogues, and named streets after Yiddish authors like Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.  The Birobidzhan Jewish National University specializes in study of Hebrew language, Jewish history and classic texts. The Jewish center's Sunday school has children studying Yiddish, Jewish folk dances, and Jewish history.  While the Jewish population has dropped to 4000, Yiddish is taught public schools, a Yiddish radio station operates, and the once all- Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern, includes sections in Yiddish. Regardless of their religion, all five- to seven year-olds spend two lessons a week learning Yiddish, and being taught Jewish songs, dance, and traditions.  Birobidzhan's fourteen public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition through the 12th grade. In 2007 the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture started and continues.

The New Birobidzhan Synagogue, opened in 2004, marked the 70th anniversary of the founding Birobidzhan. The Old Synagogue is renamed Beit Teshuvah with traditional Hebrew services.  In 2007, the world's tallest Chanukia, 69 feet tall, was built for public Chanukah lightings. The Oblast is another unusual example of Judaism's survival outside of Israel.

Rabbi Arthur Segal is an international lecturer, author, and teacher. Visit him at www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.org        . Email at RabbiASegal@aol.com

 
RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL
REBBETZIN ELLEN SEGAL
HILTON HEAD JEWISH WEDDINGS
HILTON HEAD JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS
SAVANNAH JEWISH WEDDINGS
CHARLESTON SC AND KIAWAH AND ISLE OF PALMS JEWISH WEDDINGS
www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.com/books
www.FaceBook.com/Arthur.L.Segal www.FaceBook.com/RabbiArthurSegalJewishSpiritualRenewal www.RabbiArthurSegal.blogspot.com
Jewish Spiritual Renewal
Jewish Renewal
Jewish Spirituality
Hilton Head Island, SC; Bluffton, SC; Savannah, GA
 
RABBI DR ARTHUR SEGAL
www.JewishSpiritualRenewal.com/books www.FaceBook.com/Arthur.L.Segal www.FaceBook.com/RabbiArthurSegalJewishSpiritualRenewal www.RabbiArthurSegal.blogspot.com
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Jewish Spirituality
Hilton Head Island, SC; Bluffton, SC; Savannah, GA
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