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05/23/2023

The Feast of Weeks

Shavuot, which we begin celebrating this Thursday night (May 25th), is the…

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05/22/2023

Shavuot 5783-2023

"The Concept of 'The Chosen People'" (updated and revised from Shavuot…

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05/22/2023

Green Cheesecake At Midnight

The holiday of Shavuot has three well-known, and well-loved, customs:…

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05/19/2023

Western Wall History

The Western (Wailing*) Wall is the most accessible holiest location in…

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05/18/2023

Lions and Jerusalem Day

The original city of Jerusalem, conquered by King David from the Jebusites,…

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05/17/2023

A Scholar and a Playwright

As the epicenter of the Renaissance, Italy was filled with great centers of…

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05/16/2023

The Surgery Is Elective

In the late twentieth century, there was, according to anecdotal evidence,…

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05/15/2023

Bamidbar 5783-2023

“Surviving the Wilderness” (updated and revised from Bamidbar 5764-2004)…

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05/15/2023

Learning the Truth of Your Heritage at Age 59: The Amazing Story of Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright broke a glass ceiling when she became the first woman…

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05/14/2023

Thank You, Mom

Mother’s Day is a day set aside to show the moms in our lives how much we…

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05/12/2023

Thank You Nurses

Today, May 12th, is International Nurses Day, and so, Jewish Treats honors…

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05/11/2023

Berlin’s Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary

On May 11, 1820, a child was born in Prussia who would, as a grown man,…

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05/10/2023

Rabbi and Statesman, Rabbi Moses Schorr

Rabbi Moses Schorr was a passionate academic who dedicated most of his…

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05/09/2023

Take A Sabbatical

It is interesting that the two most common professions which offer…

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05/08/2023

Behar-Bechukotai 5783-2023

“The Revolutionary Nature of Shemita and Yovel” (updated and revised from…

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05/08/2023

Lag Ba’Omer

The period of mourning* (for the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva who died of…

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05/04/2023

The Second Passover

On the first anniversary of the Exodus from Egypt, the Children of Israel…

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05/03/2023

The Occident

In honor of World Press Freedom Day, commemorated annually on May 3rd, as…

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05/02/2023

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

In 2006, the month of May was officially designated as Jewish American…

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05/01/2023

Emor 5783-2023

“Striving for Perfection” (updated and revised from Emor 5766-2006) by…

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05/01/2023

A Taste of Shakespeare

Yiddish theater, which saw its heyday in the early decades of the twentieth…

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04/28/2023

A Look at Honesty

In honor of Honesty Day which is on Sunday, April 30th, (created by M.…

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04/27/2023

Tripping the Vision Impaired

Parashat Kedoshim, the second of the two Torah portions (Acharei…

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04/26/2023

Citations

In 2000, the World Intellectual Property Organization declared April 26th…

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04/25/2023

Yom HaAtzma’ut

On the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, in the year 5708,…

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04/24/2023

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5783-2023

“The Jewish Attitude Toward Sexuality” (updated and revised from Acharei…

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04/24/2023

Israel’s Memorial Day

The State of Israel’s independence, as well as its continued survival, is a…

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04/21/2023

Precious Creation

While there are many appropriate themes with which the Torah in Genesis 1…

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04/20/2023

If These Walls Could Talk

The cryptic "spiritual" dermatological disease of tza'ra'at differs from a…

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04/19/2023

The History of the Knesset

The founders of the State of Israel did not have much time to set up and…

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