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10/05/2020

Chol Hamoed

Most holidays in Western society last for a single day, which is often…

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10/05/2020

Continue the Celebration

Enjoy spending the week “living” in the sukkah, eating meals and sleeping…

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10/02/2020

More Than A Harvest Festival

Few people refer to Sukkot by the name Chag Ha’Asif, Feast of the…

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10/02/2020

Be Thankful

Just as Sukkot is known as Chag Ha’Asif, the Festival of the Ingathering,…

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10/01/2020

Holiday Decorating

During the holiday of Sukkot, Jews live in sukkot (temporary dwellings with…

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10/01/2020

Go Decorate

Decorate your sukkah or volunteer to help decorate your synagogue’s sukkah…

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09/30/2020

Build Your Own Sukkah

Webster’s Dictionary defines a Tabernacle as a temporary dwelling, which is…

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09/30/2020

Put It Together

Enhance your celebration of the joyous holiday of Sukkot by building your…

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09/29/2020

The Perfect Species

At this time of the year, Jews around the globe head out in search of the…

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09/29/2020

Go Shopping

Contact your synagogue or local Jewish community center to find a location…

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09/27/2020

The Book Of Jonah

The Book of Jonah is one of the best known stories in the Bible and is read…

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09/27/2020

Study the Book of Jonah

Click here to read the Book of Jonah and consider the meaning of the story…

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09/25/2020

Whosoever Is Wise

"Return, O Israel, for you have stumbled in your sin" (Hosea 14:2). Um, who…

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09/25/2020

Return O’ Israel

Use this Shabbat, known as Shabbat Shuva to contemplate on how to repent…

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09/24/2020

Post Labor Day Whites

When is it fashionably acceptable to wear white after Labor Day? On Yom…

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09/24/2020

Plan Your Wardrobe

Set aside your white dress, white tie, yarmulke and kittel, if you have…

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09/23/2020

The Five Prohibitions of Yom Kippur

"...on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work…

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09/23/2020

Prepare Ahead

View Yom Kippur as a golden opportunity to seek forgiveness for prior…

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09/22/2020

A Dictionary for the Days of Awe

In Maimonides’ Laws of Repentance, he invokes five important and pertinent…

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09/22/2020

Taking Stock

Use these days of Aseret Yemei Teshuva, the Ten days of Repentance, to take…

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09/21/2020

Avinu Malkeinu

No prayer so thoroughly captures the Jewish people’s dual relationship with…

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09/21/2020

Our Father, Our King

Seize the opportunity to approach God in prayer recognizing the dual nature…

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09/18/2020

Remembering the Akeidah

In neither of the two Torah references to the holiday of Rosh Hashana…

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09/18/2020

With Best Wishes

On behalf of NJOP, Jewish Treats would like to wish all of our fans and…

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09/17/2020

Holiday Greetings

The standard pre-Rosh Hashana greeting of “K’tiva v’chatima tova” ("May you…

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09/17/2020

Send Your Best

Be sure to wish family and friends, "l'shana tova tikateivu," may you be…

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09/16/2020

Symbolic Foods

Since Rosh Hashana is the Day of Judgment, it is customary to eat simanim,*…

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09/16/2020

Prepare Ahead

Purchase special foods in order to enjoy the simanim, the foods with…

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09/15/2020

Yente the Yiddish Writer

Yiddish literature entered its modern era in the 1860s, when Jewish writers…

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09/15/2020

Appreciate Yiddish Culture

Whether attending Yiddish theater or reading Yiddish writings, there is…

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