Jewish Outreach: What Your Rabbi Isn't Telling You

Jewish Outreach, or "kiruv" in Hebrew, often targets college students and young professionals in an effort to make them orthodox. This blog exists to educate students and their parents about kiruv, outreach professionals, their supporters, their practices, and their motives.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Why in the World Is Chabad at Muhlenberg College?

›
  M uhlenberg College is a small liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, embodying the Lutheran ideals of its namesake, Henry Melch...
16 comments:
Friday, March 4, 2016

Hosting The Not (Yet) Religious

›
  N othing says our goal is to make you orthodox like advertising a lecture called "Hosting the Not (Yet) Religious." On Sunday...
2 comments:
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Find Jewish Outreach: What Your Rabbi Isn't Telling You on Facebook!

›
  Y es folks, it's true. After several requests from readers, I've finally put together a Facebook page for this blog. You can fin...
1 comment:
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Lying and Omission: Permissible to Make Jews Religious

›
  Y osef Mizrachi, the ultra-orthodox kiruv rabbi known throughout the orthodox world for his use of inflammatory rhetoric in his shiurim ...
12 comments:
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Game of Kiruv: Monseyopoly

›
With adorable cover art by Chani Judowitz , Monseyopoly looks like a very exciting and colorful game. Created for JEP (Jewish Education Pro...
5 comments:
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

In Honor of Faigy Mayer

›
     I n the wee hours of the morning, the Off the Derech Facebook community learned of the tragic suicide of Faigy Mayer, a bright young wo...
9 comments:
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

A Kiruv Organization Tells All: Recruiting Women, College Students

›
     I recently found Rabbi Yitschak Rudomim's website for the Jewish Professionals Institute: Adult Education and Outreach organizati...
12 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
bec
Rebecca M. Ross is an English teacher with a BFA in creative writing and an MA in English from Brooklyn College. Her work has been published on Jewish Ficton.net, Unpious, New Vilna Review, Scribblers on the Roof, and other print and online publications. She currently lives, plays, and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.