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Achieving Shalom
Commonly defined as peace, hello and goodbye, Shalom cannot simply be translated and then understood by its English description. In ...
Taking the Bat out of Batman
“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...
Around the World in 88 Planes (Or, Gematria on the Go)
This piece is by Education Fellow Amanda Winer. As I was flying home from a recent trip to one of ...
Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Study
The Shulchan Aruch
This 16th-century text by Joseph Caro is the ultimate code of Jewish law.
Celebrate, Rabbis Without Borders, Shavuot
When Holidays Overlap
It’s Shavuot! It’s Memorial Day weekend! It’s my first week in a new city! In fact, it’s all three of ...
Why I Loved Those Jewish Mice
The stereotype that “Jews run Hollywood” didn’t come up much when I was a little kid; I doubt it comes up for most kids. ...
His Bar Mitzvah; My Religious Crisis
How do you send your child to Hebrew school when you hated it?