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Waiting Between Eating Meat and Dairy
Why some Jews wait six hours, while others wait one or three.
Havinenu: A Shortened Version of the Amidah
When and why Jews say an abbreviated Amidah. Full text and translation of Havinenu included.
Is it OK to Blow Out Hanukkah Candles?
What do you do if you need to leave home after lighting your menorah.
The Eight Genders in the Talmud
Judaism has recognized nonbinary persons for millennia.
Yizkor: The Unending Conversation
Yizkor is part of an ongoing conversation with the dead, but what we don't realize is that we constantly converse with the dead in daily life.
Kaddish Initiates Aveilut
After burial Jewish law requires the mourner to turn from despair in the face of death to the affirmation of life.
Halakhah: The Laws of Jewish Life
Halakhah is the "way" a Jew is directed to behave, encompassing civil, criminal and religious law.