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Sukkah Chasers
One of our new articles at MyJewishLearning, Celebrating Sukkot without a Sukkah, is a lavishly creative and thoroughly detailed exploration ...
Sukkot Poll
Matthue wrote an interesting piece the other day talking about his search for an etrog But not everyone (myself included) ...
Rebbe Nachman Is Alive and Well and Living Inside Us
Today is the yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov — who, on our site, earns the epigraph The Man who ...
Etrog!!!
You’d think an etrog in Hasidic Brooklyn would be easy to find.After all, when I lived in San Francisco (Jewish ...
Re-Greening Sukkot
(Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot)I love sukkot, but one of the things that has always frustrated me about ...
Yom Kippur does the mind and body good.
In my previous post on holiday rankings, I talked about how Yom Kippur, if nothing else, is a great time ...
Official Holiday Rankings
There sure are a lot of Jewish holidays this season. I happen to be lucky and work for a Jewish ...
Decorating A Sukkah
Now having lived in our house for just about a year, my husband and I are building our first sukkah. ...
Children and the High Holidays
As part of my job as a staff member for my synagogue’s youth group, I helped our high school students ...
A Fancy Chabadnik
In this week’s Forward, Dani Shapiro writes about an experience that most of us have experienced. I was pushing my ...
What We Leave Behind
During Yom Kippur services this year, I came up with the best praying strategy I’ve ever had, I think. It’s ...
Early Yom Kippur Memory
I was just discussing in the office about how the first concert I ever attended was when I saw Shlock ...