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LATEST ARTICLES: JEWISH PRACTICES
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Environmental Awareness
Rejuvenating Ourselves and Our Planet
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Fruit Tree
Judaism has special rituals for springtime, Nissan, and Passover.
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Hermeneutics (Drash)
A method for learning Torah, developed by the rabbis of the Talmud.
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Ordination (Semihah)
How does a rabbi become a rabbi?
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Compassion
Compassion is fellow feeling, the emotion of caring concern; in post-biblical Hebrew rahamanut, interestingly from the word rehem, 'womb', originating in the idea of either motherly love or sibling love (coming from the same womb)
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The Magic of Summer Camp
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Green Apple Blintz
Blintzes have had a long and happy relationship with Shavuot....
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Reciprocal Receiving on Rosh Chodesh
The Western Wall beckoned at the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Kislev, 5760. I was studying at the Conservative Yeshiva for a month and resi......
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Shavuot Recipe: Mediterranean Tartlet
When in doubt, break out the puff pastry. Easy to work with, and always yielding a mouth-watering result, you really can't go wrong with a dish that ......
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JP Morgan, a Prostitute, and the Talmud
A Talmudic Solution to Chase’s Embarrassing, Cringeworthy, and Irresponsible $2 to 5 Billion Dollar Loss. It would be nice......
