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Independence Thinking

Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow is the Director of Jewish Education at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.Unlike many parents who send ...

Is Yom Hazikaron a good thing? This unusual question recently popped into my head while we were teaching our religious ...

I love making pizza at home, and especially enjoy trying new flavor toppings. Some of our favorites include white pesto ...

One day each year, students across the country pledge to take some form of silence.In the hallways, in the cafeteria, they silence ...

We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...

Today is Yom HaShoah, and while the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators may seem very distant from ...

Passover ended less than a week ago.Many Jews say that Passover is our favourite holiday. And why not? On Seder ...

I will never forget the moment when my daughter came out. She was 5 years old. We were eating dinner ...

Passover is (finally) over and that means that…it’s time to start preparing for next Passover.Okay, now before you kill me ...

Passover has passed us over and last night’s dinner was a veritable chametz -fest. “But wait!” you shout, “Passover isn’t ...

“My father was a wandering Aramean.” With this quote, from Deuteronomy 26:5, we begin not only the Maggid (story-telling) portion ...

On Tuesday night, I hosted a large Passover seder at my home in Jackson, Mississippi. Out of love for this ...