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12/16/2016

Wearing White for Shabbat

It is a well-known custom that Jews wear white on Yom Kippur in order to…

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07/14/2016

How Hot?

At what temperature does water begin to cook? According to Jewish…

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05/27/2016

What’s With The Salt

At every Shabbat meal, the blessing of Ha'mo'tzee (the blessing…

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03/04/2016

The Friday Night Feast

With candles burning brightly and fine wine for kiddush, Friday night…

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03/03/2016

Don’t Spoil Your Appetite!

The classic warning of the Jewish mother not to spoil one’s appetite may…

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03/03/2016

Shabbat Clothes

In historical fiction, there are often references to wearing one’s “Sunday…

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03/02/2016

A Shabbat Addition

Feasting on Shabbat is one of the primary ways in which Jews observe the…

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03/02/2016

Try These!

In honor of the upcoming Shabbat Across America and Canada (This…

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03/01/2016

A Guard of Shabbat

Two primary words of instruction are used in the Torah to command the…

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03/01/2016

Being Yotzei

Kiddush, sanctification, is the prayer said over wine through…

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02/19/2016

A Multi-Wick Candle

Enter a Judaica shop in search of a Havdalah candle and you might be…

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02/05/2016

Shabbat Shabbaton

In Exodus 31:14-17, the Torah once again reminds the Jewish people to keep…

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12/25/2015

Twilight

In Judaism, the day begins and ends at sunset. But defining sunset can be…

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12/08/2015

Chanukah and Divine Order

Chanukah always overlaps with at least one Shabbat (if not two), and since…

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10/16/2015

This Day is Honored

Shabbat meals, like many aspects of Jewish life, are a beautiful synthesis…

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08/07/2015

Saturday Night Hunger

As beautiful as Shabbat is, it was not God’s intention that humankind live…

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07/03/2015

The Power of Shabbat

Jewish life ebbs and flows around the celebration of Shabbat. The days of…

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06/12/2015

Stay Cool

As the summer heats up, people everywhere are turning to whatever means…

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05/29/2015

Shabbat in the Spring

As spring takes hold of the northern hemisphere, and the hours between…

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03/13/2015

Kiddush Wine

Kiddush is the primary component of the commandment to “Remember the…

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03/12/2015

Zmirot (Songs of Shabbat)

Singing zmirot, songs of Shabbat, on Friday night not only…

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03/11/2015

Games for Shabbat

Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, is a unique opportunity to spend “quality…

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03/10/2015

Judaica Shop

The Shabbat table is customarily set for a grand feast and adorned with…

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03/09/2015

More Than Shabbat

Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg, poet and Zionist ideologue: 1856-1927) is…

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03/06/2015

Counting Shabbat

“And the maiden [Esther] pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and…

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02/27/2015

The Sabbath of Remembering

This Shabbat is Shabbat Parashat Zachor, the Sabbath of…

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01/18/2015

Bo 5775-2015

“The Intuitive Jew” by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald In this week’s parasha,…

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01/05/2015

Shemot 5775-2015

"Moses--The Mysterious Early Years" by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald In this…

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01/02/2015

Ahhh…Cholent

The highlight of many Shabbat lunch tables is cholent, a hot stew…

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12/19/2014

Chanukah and Divine Order

Chanukah always overlaps with at least one Shabbat (if not two), and since…

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Shabbat

The Jewish Sabbath has been called an “oasis in time.” This heavenly gift is a unique opportunity for spiritual and psychological renewal that comes every week!

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