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Sweet Potato Challah
It’s one of our favorite Southern-and-Jewish recipes, and now that Passover is over, we can’t WAIT to bake this one ...
In My Characters’ Shoes
One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...
The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief
In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the Forward , to complain that her watch ...
Being a Mitzvah Representative
How can a few classes of kids in Atlanta brighten an entire hospital?The Davis Academy’s 4th grade team, interested in ...
Leading Seder for the First Time
This was my first Pesach away from home. I am a first-year college student and although I love my college and ...
Ten Plagues of the 21st Century
“It’s not that I have an issue with her having sex, per se, it’s just that it should mean something. ...
Why Me? Why Not Me?
“Why are you doing this?”I hear this question frequently when people learn that I write to help parents understand how ...
Meet Another Moses
Do you know Mr. Moses? Mr. Bob Moses?I’ve always associated Bob Moses’s name with civil rights and, specifically, his well-known ...
Freedom from Matzah
In its simplest form, Passover is a holiday that commemorates the Israelites’ journey from slavery to freedom. During the seder ...
The Company & Conversation of Passover
I’ve always said that Passover felt like the most relevant Jewish holiday to me. As a teenager I insisted on ...
Should We Really Label Our Children? Yes…Sometimes.
I’ve always been troubled by the “four children” in the Haggadah.Passover is supposed to teach our children about how we ...
Southern Seders on the Passover Pilgrimage
Right now, Rabbi Matt Dreffin and Rabbi Marshal Klaven are in the midst of the Passover Pilgrimage, journeying to communities ...
Shalom, At Passover And Always
We had another post for today, which we will share later, but in light of yesterday’s tragic shootings at two ...
From Our Table to Yours: Rainbows & Matzah
After the fun we had with Rainbow Hamantaschen, it seemed like the gauntlet had been thrown. At the Keshet office we ...
How Much is Dayenu? $35
It was at his older brother’s bar mitzvah that 9-year-old Josh Levy gave the answer to a question we all ...