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Rejuvenate Yourself Weekly

Shabbat is the antidote to our busy pressure-filled lives.

Mikveh Attendants Need Less Legislation and More Education

Earlier this month, Hadassah Braun Margolese wrote a blog here at The Torch describing her anguish about not being able ...

Rabbis Without Borders Hanukkah Gift Guide

Happy Hanukkah, Jewish learners and lovers of Jewish learners! If gift-giving is a part of your Hanukkah tradition, let our ...

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...

Exciting Possibilities for Jewish Camp

I’ve just returned from a trip to Jerusalem where I participated in two important gatherings:  the Planning Summit for a ...

Solving the agunah problem means finding the right address

In the wake of the current discussion of the Gital Dodelson case (about which I know nothing more than what ...

Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar

A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...

Ladino Pregnant Pop

“Ensuenyo Te Vi” Three words that normally don’t go together: Ladino, Pop, Pregnant. But in my world they make a ...

The Burden of Silence

I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...

Subway sleeper, Rabbi returns cash: when people do the right thing

You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...

I Belong Everywhere

This week, as I perused the internet, I stumbled upon a quiz entitled “Where You Belong: Your State Personality.”It involved ...

Let Everyone Shine

Allowing each individual's particular talents to find expression strengthens the entire unit.

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