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September 21, 2020

Avinu Malkeinu

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

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September 18, 2020

Remembering the Akeidah

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

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September 17, 2020

Holiday Greetings

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

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September 16, 2020

Symbolic Foods

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

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September 15, 2020

Yente the Yiddish Writer

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

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September 14, 2020

Rosh Hashana 5781-2020

“A Message for the High Holy Days: ‘Export, Export!’” (updated and revised…

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September 14, 2020

Sir “The Jew”

The first Jew to be knighted by a monarch of England was not himself…

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September 11, 2020

Honoring 9/11

Today is the 19th anniversary of the devastating attack on the World Trade…

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September 10, 2020

The Jewish Ghost Town of Utah

As a dry wind blows across the dusty plains just south of Gunnison, Utah, a…

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September 9, 2020

A Phoenix in B’nai Brak

Fifty years ago, on September 3, 1969, corresponding to the 20th of Elul,…

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September 8, 2020

Literacy

Today, September 8th, is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and…

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September 7, 2020

Nitzavim-Vayeilech 5780-2020

“An Exclusive Covenant with an Inclusive Philosophy” (Revised and updated…

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September 7, 2020

Labor, Technology and the Torah

Labor celebrations have taken place throughout North America since the…

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September 4, 2020

Potential Energy

Parashat Kee Tavo begins by juxtaposing two important agricultural laws.…

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September 3, 2020

Coming of Age

The assumption that every Jewish adult has had a Bar/Bat Mitzvah…

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September 2, 2020

Three Times Strong

One of the beautiful aspects of Jewish living is that it often strives to…

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September 1, 2020

Your Jewish Life Coach

Do you have a life coach? For those unfamiliar with the term, life coaches…

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August 31, 2020

Kee Tavo 5780-2020

“There are Stones with Human Hearts” (updated and revised from Kee Tavo…

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August 28, 2020

Happy Bow Tie Day

Bow Tie Day is celebrated annually on August 28th. The bow tie originated…

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August 27, 2020

Locate Your Friend and Ask for Forgiveness

Whether it was the creation of the wheel, and tools to create and advance…

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August 26, 2020

Progress For Women

On August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution…

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August 25, 2020

Kiss and Make Up

Today, August 25th, is the anonymously anointed “Kiss and Make Up Day.”…

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August 24, 2020

Kee Teitzei 5780-2020

“Polygamy and Jewish Tradition” (Updated and revised from Kee Teitzei…

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August 24, 2020

Changing Ukraine

Kiev, Odessa, Zhitomyr, Uman...the cities of Ukraine are places marked in…

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August 21, 2020

Is It Good To Be The King?

Parashat Shoftim addresses many issues, among them the Jewish…

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August 20, 2020

Forgiveness: An Elul Treat

Many feel that the three hardest words to say, in any language are: “I am…

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August 19, 2020

Baron Edmond James de Rothschild

Although he came from a prominent banking family and was employed in the…

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August 18, 2020

Mitzvah With A Shovel

The Jewish customs surrounding death, burial and mourning are intended to…

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August 17, 2020

Shoftim 5780-2020

"Security for Citizens and Caring for Guests” (updated and revised from…

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August 17, 2020

American Archivist

Selma Stern-Taeubler (1890-1981) was a natural achiever. Not only was this…

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