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After months of anticipation, I arrived in a slightly damp and chilly Israel for the annual training of summer shlichim ...

The best jokes about beggars and moochers.

This fruit dessert is a wonderful alternative to apple crisp.

Jewish texts portray Yom Kippur as a serious day of repentance and reflection — but not one of sadness.

These flavors deepen as they are cooked, making them sweeter.

The evolution of attitudes towards physicians, beliefs connecting illness and sin, prayers for healing, and the use of folk healing traditions.

Capital punishment: allowed in the Torah and Talmud, but rarely carried out by Jewish courts.

Clearing up myths about these Eastern European villages where Jews lived.