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Shabbat Recipe Roundup
It’s almost time for Purim, so no better way to start Shabbat than with this creative recipe for Hamantaschen Challah!I ...
Some Purim Torah
Those of us who fall under the general rubric of “believers” may feel a sense of God’s presence in our ...
What the Kids are Doing With Their Lives
I realized late in life that my parents weren’t your typical Baby Boomers. My dad wasn’t anti-establishment. My mother wasn’t a feminist. ...
Footnote: Finally a Movie that Understands Academia
It’s tough out there for an Israeli film at the Oscars. When an Israeli film gets nominated for best foreign ...
Autumn in His Heart
I’ve thought a lot about Isaac Babel’s lovely characterization of the Jew as a man with “[s]pectacles on his nose and ...
What rights do we have to our soul?
Last week, while checking in on the latest articles on the Religion page of the Huffington Post, the following headline ...
It’ll be Good….
These days the pundits and analysts say that the peace process is over. Remember Oslo? Remember the Roadmap for Peace ...
The Comedienne
One of the strange things about having your first book come out is that you think you’ve written one thing, ...
Magnifying Life
Two weeks ago I wrote about the tragic loss of little Ayelet Galena z”l. I discussed how one young life ...
Hysteron Proteron
And Moses read the Book of the Covenant to the people and they said “All that God has commanded we ...