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How one woman went from having no idea what Shabbat was to celebrating it every week.

I was 75 percent Jewish, I told the Orthodox rabbi, my paternal grandparents and one maternal grandparent were all Jewish. “So, you’re not Jewish,” he replied.

In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...

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

Last Shabbat, the guest speaker at my congregation, B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, was Rabbi Andrea Myers, author of a ...