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LATEST ARTICLES: JEWISH PRACTICES
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Environmental Awareness
Rejuvenating Ourselves and Our Planet
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Fruit Tree
Judaism has special rituals for springtime, Nissan, and Passover.
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Hermeneutics (Drash)
A method for learning Torah, developed by the rabbis of the Talmud.
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Ordination (Semihah)
How does a rabbi become a rabbi?
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Compassion
Compassion is fellow feeling, the emotion of caring concern; in post-biblical Hebrew rahamanut, interestingly from the word rehem, 'womb', originating in the idea of either motherly love or sibling love (coming from the same womb)
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Wake Up Already!
A Small Thought on V'Yeitze Jacob, fleeing from his brother Esau, stops on the way, falls asleep for the night and has a magnificent dream....
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The Reprieve
Were you aware that every year, erev Thanksgiving, a turkey is sent to the White House for the president to pardon? Well, actually, two turkeys are se......
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Most of us are hitting the road for the Thanksgiving holiday....
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Make Your Community All-Gender Inclusive
These steps are excerpted from a pamphlet created by Rabbis Elliot Kukla, Reuven Zellman and TransTorah, in collaboration with the Institute for J......
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The Other
Growing up in Orthodox Brooklyn, all that was forbidden to us was, by its nature, exotic....