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Francesca Lia Block: Learning to Quake
Francesca Lia Block changed the face of young adult publishing with her first novel, Weetzie Bat — a book that ...
New Fruit Poll
With Rosh Hashanah around the corner, we here at My Jewish Learning are wondering what you will use as your ...
How to Repent Right
The idea of repentance always fills me with performance anxiety. Most of it’s due to the prayer service, which starts ...
The Great Schlep
My parents aren’t grandparents yet. And this would be a really awkward way to tell them I’m pregnant, which I’m ...
No need for TiVo
I’ve been looking forward to the Presidential Debates for a while. Last week though, I looked at a calendar and ...
Rosh Hashana round-up
HighHolidayService.com is a great way to find a Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur service near you. (Thanks to Jeff Seidel ...
Jewish New Year’s Countdowns
It’s the end of the year, at least the Jewish one, and the countdown lists are beginning. Galei Tzahal will ...
Next Year in Cooperstown!
When I was a kid, I, like many others, wanted to be a professional athlete. It seemed like a pretty ...
Denominationalism
Leaders of the UK’s three non-Orthodox religious movements (Reform, Liberal, and Masorti), which together account for about one-third of Britain’s ...
Georgia on My Mind
Today at the office, we were talking about traditional Rosh Hashanah food. Black-eyed peas, primarily as a Sephardic custom, came ...