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Closing the Season of Repentance

Hoshanah Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot, marks the thematic end of the High Holiday period.

Dear School Officials, Please Don’t Excuse Absence from School Today. Encourage It.

Dear School Officials,Today is Yom Kippur, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar. It is the Day of Atonement, ...

Food Year Resolution

I tend to make my real New Years Resolutions in September for Rosh Hashanah, but this year I am making ...

End of Summer Party Recipes

The summer ain’t over yet, but before we know it Rosh Hashanah and the frenzy of holidays will be upon ...

Reading Torah in Korea With A Chopstick

Judaism takes on familiar and new forms on the Korean peninsula

Searching for My People

My first job out of college was at a large insurance company in Baltimore. I was a computer programmer there, ...

Spiritual & Cultural Experiences

Could a spiritual experience happen as you're watching the final Harry Potter film, in the moment that Harry finally raises a wand and vanquishes Voldemort for good?

I’m too poor to daven these days.

From Craig’s List via Gawker:Come celebrate the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement with New York’s most elite Jews. ...

Yud-Aleph-Tett-Samech…Jets! Jets! Jets!

Yom Kippur. The Super Bowl of Fast Days. The day where Jewish guilt is not only encouraged, but demanded.Feeling guilty ...

Why is Hanukkah So Early in 2018?

This year, the Festival of Lights concludes a full two weeks before Christmas begins.

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