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Wise Fridays: How to Desecrate Shabbat

When such acts [that desecrate Shabbat in order to save a life] are done, they are not to be done ...

Yom Kippur or Eternal Damnation? The Choice Is Yours.

Here’s a discussion I had last night. If your favorite baseball team was playing in the World Series on the ...

Why? Why? Why? Why Not?

Why did Nixon refuse to compel Israel to join the nuclear non-proliferation regime? (Ha’aretz)Why are the “days between the times“–so ...

Jewels of Elul

Once again Craig & Co. are producing inspiring words during the month of Elul, in their Jewels of Elul series.This ...

Wise Fridays: The Call of the Cow

A medicine man from the Blood Indian Reservation, Brother Rufus Goodstriker…picked up the shofar and looked it over. “Ram’s hom,” ...

Happy Almost-Tishrei

Today is the first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, which is basically a whole month spent preparing for one day. ...

Don’t Worry, Swine Flu Is Being Taken Care Of

I wish I knew more details about this story beyond “I saw this on Colbert Report last night and thought ...

Best of the Rest

These weeks just go by so fast. Last week, we had Tisha B’Av and lurking in the distance are those ...

Tweet One Your Love

Okay, I’m not Stevie Wonder, and chances are you aren’t, either — but let’s not forget the grand Jewish tradition ...

Tish Above

Growing up, I didn’t really know what Tisha B’av (It was pronounced Tish Above) was. I did get the sense ...

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