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About Death & Mourning

About Death and Mourning in the Jewish community.

What I’ve Learned from Crossword Puzzles

Every day, I do the New York Times crossword puzzle. It truly is a ritual for me, almost as sacred ...

Make Your Voice Heard

A strange thing happened in the wake of the election, and is intensifying now that the inauguration is next week.People ...

Memories of Swimming: From B- to A-Meets

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (or “JDS” as it was fondly known), the school my three brothers and I ...

One Egg Is A Fortune

One Egg Is A Fortune is a collection of recipes and stories from fifty prominent Jewish people from around the ...

Can Cheese Be Jewish?

“Goats are the Jews of the animal kingdom,” Aitan Mizrahi told a group at the Hazon Food Conference on Friday ...

Masada

The site where hundreds of Jews held out against a Roman siege has become a modern symbol of Jewish heroism.

Research and the Power of Bashert

I’m not a great believer in fate, but I certainly have encountered more than a few instances of bashert—that lovely Hebrew ...

Jewish History in Cajun Country: A Secret Synagogue

I am Jewish. I am a historian. And, as my name attests—I am also Cajun French, so I was most ...

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