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A Family Ritual for Blessing the New Year

A Sephardic Rosh Hashanah ceremony combines elements of Tashlich and a healing ritual.

Beitzah 27

The matter hangs on great trees.

Parashat Shoftim: Summary

Moses reviews for the Israelites their system of justice, the rules of kingship, their relationship to idolatrous nations, and the rules of doing battle.

Bet You Can’t Eat Just One!

Potato chips can be absolutely addicting. The marketing of processed foods in America has brilliantly caught us in our weakness ...

The Expelled Jews of Coro

This was the first time that Jews had been driven out of an independent nation in South America.

Ultra-Orthodoxy and Organ Donation

After learning the results of an experiment involving a decapitated sheep, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach decided to permit organ donations.

Nixon’s Jewish Cabal

Apparently it’s a pretty well-known fact that Richard Nixon was an anti-Semite. I’m not shocked by this, but I guess ...

Addiction: Overview

 Becky hasn’t been herself lately. She started drinking a year ago, but now she’s experimenting with other drugs—and her friends ...

Torah from the Holy Fire

The rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto, Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, left behind a wealth of spiritual resources for facing life's most intense challenges.

Snapchat’s Top Rabbi

When the list of the top ten Jews you should follow on social media platform Snapchat came out this week ...

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