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The Command to Forget

Deuteronomy 2419. When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you ...

Parashah Challahs on MJL

It was 10 p.m. on a Thursday night at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, and I was finally learning ...

What Is Gefilte Fish?

What’s the perpetual conflicting source of both gastronomic horror and Jewish nostalgic affection? Gefilte fish, of course! Gefilte fish is ...

How to Greet Someone on Hanukkah

There are phrases you can use to wish someone a Happy Hanukkah.

Longing

So far this week, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish N.Y. to churchy Connecticut and how to find Jews ...

Bava Kamma 117

Rabbi Yohanan, wounding healer.

Symbolism in the Bible

Jewish literature is rife with allegory and metaphor.

Best New Jewish Comedian?

I put a question mark at the end of the title because there are so many fantastic young Jewish comedians ...

The Mishnah as a Response to Catastrophe

The Oral Torah reflects an attempt to create an eternal Judaism, unaffected by the setbacks that had afflicted the Jewish people in the preceding two centuries.

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