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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 ...

I Command You to Eat

It’s Erev Yom Kippur, so everyone get eating! Just as there is a commandment to fast on Yom Kippur, there ...

Kol Nidrei for the Ages

Yesterday on Slate (apparent my new go-to blog for Jewish content other than Mixed Multitudes), Michael Weiss shared the history ...

Pink Ribbons and Yom Kippur

It’s October, which, as you may have noticed is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and there’s a pink ribbon on everything ...

Shana Tova from the Bottom of the World

I’m the helpdesk manager here at MJL — which means that any question that gets sent to the site drops ...

A Yom Kippur Poem

From Slate’s weekly poem collection. Click here to listen to the author Philip Schultz read it. You are asked to ...

The High Holidays are nuts!

I thought I’d heard of all the major High Holiday customs–fish heads or goat heads on the table, kaparot, and ...