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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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Parashat Vayechi: Uncovering Joseph's Bones
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Jews Invented the Emoticon
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