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Why Bernie Madoff Didn’t Lurk in Dark Alleys

We all know that one of the Ten Commandments is “Don’t steal.” But it’s also hard for us to imagine ...

Mother/Writer

I have been a writer for my whole adult life. I have only been a mother for five months. Like many ...

What’s All the Fuss?

The annual Newsweek/Daily Beast list of America’s fifty top rabbis came out recently. Like many of my colleagues I always ...

Why I Write

Maybe there are four or five people on earth for whom writing is effortless and never heartbreaking. I don’t know ...

Bageling

Have you ever been ‘bageled’?“Bageling” is: the conscious act – or speech – of a non-obviously looking Jewish individual to ...

Marching Towards Freedom With The Omer

We often flow unaware from one moment on the calendar to the next. There are too many times where we ...

The blessings of a mixed multitude

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

Sacred Snacking

It is very hard after the seder to get excited about the last days of Passover. Seven/eight days of eating ...

How’s Everything?

Yesterday a man came to see me for an appointment. As he came in to the office he asked me, ...

Teaching the Four Sons in the 21st Century

We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...

The Secret Code of “Hava Negilah”

“Hava Nagila“ (Hebrew: הבה נגילה ) (lit. “Let us rejoice”) is a Hebrew folk song that has become a staple ...

This Passover, Play With your Food!

This year, you won’t have to bribe your kids to eat their vegetables. With so many colorful and exciting foods ...

The Lost Afikoman

Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian and the author of Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale Of A White Boy ...

A multicultural view of Passover eating

Every year I get a call from my mother, “Remind me again, do we eat peanuts on Passover?”This question should ...

Springtime as Freedom-Time

Is it mere coincidence that the Jewish festival of Passover, beginning this Friday eve, April 6th, falls in the early ...

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