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DISCUSSION
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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JP Morgan, a Prostitute, and the Talmud
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When we moved to Chicago, my roommate and I decided we wanted to have a dairy-only kitchen....
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What's in a Name?
One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer to the group of Jewish educators......
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Tomorrow's Rabbi Today
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Tisha B'Av and the Olympic Games
What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, c......
