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Eating Ashkenazi-Sephardi Style at Sukkot
Sukkot appears to be one holiday in which the Moroccan and Ashkenazic customs and rituals are fairly similar. We both ...
Yom Kippur is Finished: Will Your Seat Be Empty Until Next Year?
The majesty and transcendence of the High Holidays are behind us. Rosh Hashanah with its coronation of God and Yom ...
The Season of Our Newborn Joy
At the end of the Day of Atonement we petition: “Breathe into me of Your spirit, and I will live ...
Coming Out & Inviting In
In honor of National Coming Out Day , Keshet will be sharing and celebrating coming out stories throughout the month ...
Watching Over My 12-Year-Old’s Instagram Account
What is wrong with the title of this article?It’s simple, Instagram is not for children under the age of 13 ...
My Daughter’s in the 4th Grade… And I’m Planning Her Bat Mitzvah
My youngest daughter will turn nine in just a few weeks, but I have already begun to actively arrange for ...
Rabbi Thrown Out Of Jackson Restaurant: The Real Story
“Did you hear about the rabbi getting thrown out of a Jackson restaurant?”Everyone at our office has been asked that ...
Sukkot, Our Interfaith Hippie Re-visioning Festival
On Sukkot, it’s customary to read Chapter 14 from the prophet Zechariah.Have you read it? I mean, really read it?If ...
Finding Jewish Camelot
Celebrating Sukkot on the Canadian shores of Lake Ontario, as I did as a child, was fraught with complications. Evening ...
The Day After Yom Kippur, Now What?
It’s the great communal experience of the Jewish people. We fill halls and sanctuaries and homes in eager anticipation. Some ...
Yom Kippur: We Atone; We Are At One
On Yom Kippur, we atone; on Yom Kippur, may we be at one.From South to North, East to West, Jews will ...
Rabbis in Favor of Atheism
That’s not something you hear all the time, especially on the day leading into Yom Kippur, perhaps the most G*d ...
What an Orthodox Rabbi Promises His Gay Children
Our friends at The Canteen shared an Orthodox Rabbi’s hopes and prayers for LGBTQ children. Rabbi Avi Orlow, the Director of Jewish ...
Promises for My Gay Children: Reflections of an Orthodox Rabbi for Yom Kippur
As I prepare for Yom Kippur, I have been giving some thought to all of my and our collective sins. ...
Yom Kippur’s Circle Dance
Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...