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Matzoh & Mitzvot

Passover is about so much more than just a seder, and with time off from work and school, we want ...

Tzom Bechorot: Why I’m Fasting Before Passover

April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

Moving “From Shame to Praise” – Trevor Noah, Monica Lewinsky and Us

Like most New York Jews, I love “The Daily Show,” and so I was very sad to hear that Jon ...

Passover is Best When ALL of Our Peeps are Included

 Passover is best when ALL of our peeps are included. Looking for LGBTQ inclusive Passover resources? We’ve got you covered ...

ProcrastiNation

Why do we eat Matzah on Passover? As we read in the Haggadah:Because the dough of our fathers did not have ...

Mensch Madness Game 5: Scapegoat vs. Kosher Pig!

Welcome back to Mensch Madness! We’re already at Game 5.Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher, put up a ...

Talking about Dying is Really Talking about Living

As Passover approaches, most of the questions I have received lately have been about matzoh and seders; slavery and freedom. ...

Create Your Best, and Most Personal, Passover Seder

Looking to change-up your seder this year? Archie Gottesman, FJC board member and self-proclaimed Marketing Jewru has spent the past ...

Passover and the Need for Wiser Questions

In college, David Abusch-Magder (then David Abusch) decided to take a class in African dance. Over the years he had watched ...

Mensch Madness Game 5: Ram vs. Golden Calf!

Welcome back to Mensch Madness!Today’s game has a lot of media attention. We’ve all heard the hype about these two ...

An Open Letter to Tom and Transgender Teens Everywhere

Last week the story of Tom Chai Sosnik, a teenager that came out as transgender at Tehiyah Day School, his ...

From Futility to Freedom

The following is an excerpt from my personal Haggadah, a story of my enslavement to a principle and my discovery of the ...

Marching for My Mom, the Agunah

Last Sunday, March 22nd, a march was held in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY in order to raise awareness of the ...

Lucky to Have Two Mommies

Earlier this month an article entitled Dear Gay Community: Your Kids Are Hurting hit the web and was widely circulated. The author compared ...

A Very Pregnant Passover

April 2015 has been on my mind for a while. Since last September, to be exact, when I began counting ...

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