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Passover and Blood Libels

The accusation that blood was used to make wine or matzah for Passover was a pretext for attacks on Jews.

My Big Happy Greek-Ashkenazi Family

When I was in Israel this fall, I ended up going to a Sephardic synagogue one Shabbat morning, and served ...

Why I Balked At Disneyland on Yom Kippur

How do you confess to a sin without believing in sin?

Haftarah for Vayechi

David's parting words to his son Solomon.

‘Awake, Awake, Miriam the Prophetess’

Selections from two tehines (women's prayers)

Jewish Philosophy and Philosophies of Judaism

It is more accurate to speak of Jewish philosophies than of a single Jewish philosophy.

Reclaiming My Russian-Chinese Heritage

An American Jew examines the meaning of her family's Russian-Chinese story

Fixed Prayer and Spontaneity

Reconciling the experience of repeatedly praying from an established text with the need for prayer to come from the heart.

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