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DISCUSSION
LATEST ARTICLES: PRACTICES
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Letting Go of Greed
Our notion of greed evolves throughout our lives.
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Cooking Like It's Treif
Keeping kosher doesn't mean your meals have to lose out on style and taste.
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Common Prayer Words
Fifty of the most frequent Hebrew words that appear in the siddur.
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Blessing the Children
A spiritual gesture between parents and children.
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Independent Minyans
Everything old is new again.
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The Future of Jewish Music
I love seeing YouTube videos and immediately thinking, "This is a parody, right?" Even better than that is the realization that the video in fact is not a parody.
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The Curse of the Vegetarian Potluck
If you're active in a certain kind of Jewish community, you're invited to vegetarian potluck Shabbat meals on a fairly regular basis.
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What's the Best Way to Give to Haiti?
In the days since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, you have likely been inundated with requests to give money and/or various forms of supplies in order to support the victims of this natural disas...
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Armed (With Tefillin) And Not Dangerous
When I lived in Nashville I got used to the people at the airport pulling out my tefillin and getting all confused.
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Limmud NY 2010: Drinking, Sex, and Megillat Esther
Shabbat is over at Limmud NY, and once again I’m skipping the big havdalah event to write up some quick thoughts on the past few hours. The Shabbat sessions at Limmud are interesting because ther...
