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Keep Far from a Lie

“Keep yourself far from a lie; and do not kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the ...

Can Synagogues Be More Like Starfish?

Membership is lagging, we haven’t been able to convince the preschool families to join the synagogue and sales in the ...

The Seven Roads to Hell (or: Dante’s Inferno adapted for Chassidic Jews)

Goldie Goldbloom is the author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, a novel about Italian prisoners of war in ...

Jewish Writing is Over

Vivian Gornick’s forthcoming book The Men in My Life includes an essay called “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End ...

The Order and the Ordering of Biblical Books

How did the Bible end up in the order it's in today?

A Convert Cannot Reject Jewish Law

This legal opinion from the Masorti (Conservative) movement in Israel takes the lenient opinion that a convert should not explicitly reject any Jewish law.

Yoma 61

A hairy dilemma.

Pesachim 115

It’s supposed to be confusing.

Pesachim 70

The importance of the RSVP.

Shabbat 74

Sifting and sorting.

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