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When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Tisha B’Av (Aug. 5th), which commemorates the destruction of the Temple also marks the seven week countdown to Rosh Hashanah. ...

“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...

The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Lekhah Dodi (‘Come my friend’) is the hymn sung on Friday night to welcome Shabbat. The prayer begins, “Come my friend, ...

I really love salads, especially this time of year. It’s hot, produce is in abundance and it’s a lot easier ...

Last week on the blog, S. Bear Bergman of the Flamingo Rampant Book Club issued a call for children’s books that ...

As of yesterday, Monday July 28th, we Jews have begun “The Nine Days.”You may not know what I’m talking about, ...

We are currently in the midst of “The Three Weeks,” a time of grieving for Jews in remembrance of the ...

It was mid-August and the air conditioning was broken in the café on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Across ...

“You’re thinking of going to a conference on Orthodox Feminism? But that can’t exist. Besides, you don’t hate men or ...