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01/20/2025

Va’eira 5785-2025

“Teaching a New Reality About Divine Power Through the Ten Plagues”…

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01/20/2025

Inauguration Oil

Elected U.S. presidents are inaugurated on January 20th. But, it wasn’t…

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01/17/2025

Insights into the Burning Bush

The release several years ago of the motion picture Exodus: Gods and Kings…

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01/16/2025

Writing a Law For Freedom

Thomas Jefferson is renowned for being the author of the Declaration of…

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01/15/2025

Watch Your Language

Once upon a time in American culture, defiant children who uttered certain…

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01/14/2025

Book Respect

Because of the centrality of the Torah in Jewish life, the Jewish people…

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01/13/2025

Shemot 5785-2025

“In the Merit of Miriam” (updated and revised from Shemot 5765-2004) by…

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01/13/2025

Hail The Accuser

In the era of social media, it is almost an everyday occurrence to be asked…

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01/10/2025

Menashe and Ephraim

Joseph’s two sons, Menashe and Ephraim, are familiar names because they…

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01/09/2025

The Tenth of Tevet

"And it was in the ninth year of [King Zeddekiah’s] reign, in the tenth…

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01/08/2025

A National Poet

Chaim Nahman Bialik (born January 9, 1873) was an Israeli national icon who…

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01/07/2025

Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the Father of Modern Hebrew

The official language of Israel is Hebrew, but until the end of the 19th…

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01/06/2025

Vayechi 5785-2025

“The ‘Sealed’ Torah Portion” (updated and revised from Vayechi 5765-2004)…

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01/06/2025

The Jews of the New Mexico Territory

On January 6, 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state of the United States…

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01/03/2025

Joseph, Son of Jacob

The story of Jacob’s eleventh son is a tale of epic proportion. The…

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01/02/2025

A Kosher Buffet

While it seems a bit counterintuitive to have a day celebrating abundant…

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12/30/2024

Vayigash 5785-2025

“And He Fell on His Neck and Wept” (updated and revised from Vayigash…

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12/30/2024

Spin the Dreidel

I have a little dreidel I made it out of clay And when it's dry and ready…

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12/26/2024

The Challenge of Fitting In

The weekly Torah reading of Mikeitz (Genesis 41:1-44:17), which almost…

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12/24/2024

These Lights We Kindle

While the mitzvah of lighting the menorah is an outward-focused mitzvah –…

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12/23/2024

Mikeitz 5785-2024

“Unexpected Parallels between Mikeitz and the Story of Chanukah” (updated…

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12/20/2024

Judah, Son of Jacob

When Judah, the fourth son of Leah and Jacob was born, Leah said, “This…

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12/19/2024

The Story of Degania

Since many of the early settlers in pre-state Palestine identified with the…

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12/18/2024

The Story of Chanukah

Around the year 167 B.C.E., the Syrian-Greek rulers of Judea tried to force…

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12/17/2024

America’s First Synagogue

In 1656, Shearith Israel became the first synagogue that was established in…

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12/16/2024

On One Foot

Jewish Treats was asked to summarize the Jewish faith in one tweet. For…

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12/15/2024

Vayeishev 5785-2024

“The Vast Majority of the Time, G-d Rules the World!” (updated and revised…

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12/13/2024

A Dotted Kiss

Jacob left the land of Canaan to avoid the murderous rage of his brother…

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12/12/2024

Lancaster Jews

Many people do not realize that Lancaster, Pennsylvania, home to the famous…

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12/11/2024

Chanukah: What’s The Mitzvah?

With Chanukah only two weeks away (it begins on Wednesday night, December…

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