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BIBLIOGRAPHY
DISCUSSION
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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From the Collection: "What My Lady Should Not Wear"
This photo from is not from the Greenwood, Mississippi production of La Cage Aux Folles (written by Jewish composer Jerry Herman who just so happens......
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Tunisian Spiced Squash Soup
Butternut squash, pumpkin, butternut squash, pumpkin...after awhile, all that squash and pumpkin kind of looks and tastes the same....
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Mr.
In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study....
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Don’t Touch that Dial! It’s a Round-Up of LGBT Jewish Election News
•Marriage Equality is up for a vote in four states this November: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington....
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Passing on Stories
My mother was in town for a few days that summer, babysitting her granddaughter (and my niece), while she had some time off between camp and school st......