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Hosting Meals is No Picnic

I inherited my love of hosting Shabbat meals from my mother. Growing up we had company for at least one ...

Turning Our Attention Outward

This commentary is provided by special arrangement with American Jewish World Service. To learn more, visit www.ajws.org.At one level, the three ...

Rosh Hashanah in the Woods

Haley Tanner is the author of Vaclav and Lena. She will be blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and Jewish Book ...

The Newest Holiday

While you might be getting excited for next week’s Shavuot extravaganza (since when does receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai ...

The Butter Ten Commandments

Shavuot is on the horizon, which means everyone is preparing for a holiday whose main ritual is eating blintzes. Don’t ...

Instant March of the Living

Yesterday was Yom Hashoah. And while our blog had minimal coverage of the day, that doesn’t mean that people around ...

Has Twitter Made Passover Impossible?

Last night, right as Passover came to an end, I ran over to the computer in my parents’ house and ...

Wise Fridays: Matzah and Moral Corruption

“The ban on leaven during the Passover week signifies that national liberation also involves moral and spiritual rejuvenation and must ...

Things I Found Cleaning for Passover This Year

Listerine that expired in 2007 A set of acne medications prescribed to someone no one in my apartment had ever ...

Liveblogging Passover

The holiday of Passover starts at sunset tonight, right? Not really. In our household, Passover started about a month ago ...

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