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The Origin of the Shehechiyanu Blessing

The Shehechiyanu is a blessing that expresses gratitude for new, or special, experiences.

Dvar Torah: Live, Tonight, On Stage

Tonight I’m giving a dvar torah, and I’m nervous. So I set my Twitter status to say exactly that. My ...

Look Mom, I’m on Saudi TV

Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

Sotah 27

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Eruvin 54

Embodied Judaism.

A Map Of Pluralism

The arrangement of the Israelites around the Tabernacle, as individuals and as a community, provides us with a model for pluralism.

Follow the Talmud or a Jewish Sharia?

No American Jew could have experienced a more inspiring introduction to Israel that I did upon arriving in darkness aboard ...

Should Hanukkah Be The Jewish Christmas?

As the calendar flips to December, nightfall comes ever earlier, and many of us don our winter coats for the ...

The Karaites: A Medieval Jewish Sect

The Karaites, biblical fundamentalists, challenged the authority of rabbinic Judaism.

Haftarah for Vayikra

Idols are not the answer.

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