To Fast or Not to Fast—That is the Question
Yom Kippur is that day to look within, to inspect your deeds and see if you have lived a moral life in the previous year.
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Elul: A Time for Introspection
A writer looks back over his life for better understanding during Elul, the month before the Jewish High Holidays.
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Remembering the Atrocities of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust
April 8, 2021 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day we should never forget.
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A Covid-19 Chanukah
Like the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire, Jews today have their own 2020 oppressor–Covid-19. With a few smart choices, we can lick this villain, too. v
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Jewish Values Grandma Taught Me
My grandma taught me Jewish values that can provide a moral compass for us all.
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The Year Passover (Easter and Ramadan) Was Cancelled
The coronavirus epidemic has cancelled Passover, Easter, and Ramadan. What can Jews, Christians, and Muslims do?
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In the Loop
Here’s how one deaf man stays in the loop during the Passover holiday.
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6 Thanksgiving celebrations around the globe
In the United States, we observe Thanksgiving the last Thursday in November. It’s a cornucopia-filled holiday with traditions unique to America. It is celebrated to give thanks for the fall harvest with historical references to native Indians and Pilgrim settlers. Americans are not the only country that ritualizes a feast of thanks. Many other countries…
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Judaism and the Deaf Jew
I was a member of Temple Judea, a reform synagogue in Tarzana, California, for twenty-five years. Even after a virus robbed me of most of my hearing and forced me out of my tenured sixth grade teaching assignment, I stayed a temple member. Though I couldn’t understand a word of the rabbi’s sermons or capable…
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Why Matzah?
Dear Pop, Last year I was invited to my first Passover Seder at a home in Encino. I really enjoyed myself as everyone read from the Haggadah, the spiritual text, but that matzah. Why do Jews eat that tasteless, flour/water flatbread for eight days and why do some Jews have two Seders? Curious Christian Dear…
