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This is Not the Hanukkah for Baked Latkes or Low-Fat Sour Cream

Vegetable or oven-baked latkes just won't cut it.

Why Parents Are the Only Loved Ones Traditionally Mourned a Full Year

Rites for mothers and fathers are more demanding than those for other relatives, even siblings, spouses and children.

Elena Kagan, Esther, and Being Outed as Jewish or Gay

So Elena Kagan is Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Jusice, and I, for one, am elated. I love that there ...

What Religion Is

I haven’t yet seen Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous, but it’s premise is hardly novel. By now, we know the ...

Agreement vs. Acceptance

As a Jewish woman raised in a Conservative home, a Reform synagogue, and who has been Modern Orthodox since the ...

Why Are There So Many Kosher Chinese Restaurants?

We investigate this delicious, Jewish American mystery.

I Desperately Want to Know…I am Not Just Asking

I was a 16-year old. My father (56), my younger sister (12) and I were walking home from the movies ...

What Happens in Synagogue on Simchat Torah

Special ceremonies for ending and beginning the Torah cycle.

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