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Celebrating Our Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah
“Some people will do anything to get out of synagogue on Simchat Torah” said my husband as we headed off ...
How a Six Minute Video Changed My Life
That night, a video changed my life. It was just over six minutes long, yet its message touched me profoundly ...
All Your Males…
I hate Jewish holidays.I got married soon after becoming Orthodox, and I was excited to celebrate the Jewish holidays fully ...
Embracing Unity, Not Uniformity
The High Holiday season just ended. A spiritual, emotional and communal journey through Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot culminated ...
An Interesting Jewish “Jeopardy” Champ
Passover is the eight-day Jewish holiday in which we ask questions at the seder table. For one quirky Jewish guy ...
Can You Eat Your Etrog?
Well, first thing’s first: what is an etrog?The etrog is a medium size fruit that sort of looks like a ...
The Rabbi In My Bedroom
When I got married, there were a million things on my to-do list. There was one thing, one pretty important ...
What Is The Torah We Want To Celebrate Today?
Today we celebrate the holiday of Simhat Torah. Literally meaning “rejoicing in Torah,” the holiday is a culmination both of ...
Five Stages of Soul
Simchat Torah: a day for reading — and connecting — the beginning and end of the Torah.The Torah begins with ...
Yogi Berra and Sukkot
Yogi Berra was the master of saying the wrong thing in the most right way. His death a couple of ...
OK, Who Invited Joaquin To The Sukkah?
I recall standing once in a communal sukkah teaching a group of children about Sukkot. It was a sunny day ...
What Makes This Lulav So Southern?
In elementary school, the Jewish holidays were never an issue — I went to a Jewish day school, so school ...