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Why I Drove 10 Hours to Visit This Jewish Deli

Abe’s Deli in Scranton, Pennsylvania will always feel like home.

Rosh Hashanah Customs

How to celebrate the Jewish New Year at home.

An Orthodox-Friendly, Egalitarian Bencher: Something Old, Something Very New

With great fanfare, David Zvi Kalman and Joshua Schwartz announced their production of a new, “egalitarian and queer-inclusive” bencher, Seder ...

The Pathos of Exodus: What Hollywood Blockbusters Have To Do With Ferguson and Giving Tuesday

My boys are getting psyched for the upcoming release of the blockbuster Exodus: Gods And Kings . Exodus promises to ...

Menstruation and “Family Purity” (Taharat Ha-Mishpacha)

An act of will is required to turn our thoughts back to the sacred after a bodily event has focused our attention on the very physical here-and-now.

Women’s Megillah Reading in a Small Town–Some Tips From Our 5th Year

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — we are the capital city of the Commonwealth. No, Pennsylvania’s capital is not in Philadelphia. Several years ago ...

Is Separate Seating Offensive?

An English MP named Jim Fitzpatrick was invited to a constituent’s wedding last night, and he and his wife attended, ...

Federations Get Serious About LGBTQ Inclusion

This summer the UJA-Federation of New York hosted a Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement, a conference convened to discuss ideas of LGBTQ ...

The Global History of Ma Nishtana

Each year, Jewish children around the world learn the Four Questions. After all the image of the small child chanting ...

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