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My Journey Back to Jewish Summer Camp

All of the major signposts of my life are linked to my attending Jewish residential camp at Camp Ramah, in ...

A Parenting Mantra: “This, Too, Shall Pass”

Each time my wife and I think we have moved past one parenting issue, a new one arises. Our son starts ...

Michael Jackson, Power Girl, and the Deeper Meaning of Chests

I just took a walk outside on the rare lunchtime spent in the company of fresh air — well, as ...

The Best Learning You’ll Do Offline–Yeshivat Hadar

During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...

Apologizing for Our Parents’ Sins

My mother was born in Germany in 1939. She grew up there, emigrating to the United States in 1968, after ...

Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews

The Jewish world is more ethnically and racially diverse than many people realize.

Setting a Date for Yom Hashoah

After much debate, a compromise date--satisfactory to none--is chosen.

Yevamot 20

What counts as a mitzvah.

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