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Adapted by Batya Podos The Hannukah blessing was the first Hebrew blessing I learned. My family wasn’t very observant—we were High Holidays/Pesach Jews--but we always lit candles on Hannukah. I loved my hannukiah, and was proud that I could chant the blessing over the candles, but I
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by Izzy Abrahmson In literature, a cabbage might be a symbol for anything and everything disagreeable. In the village of Chelm, however, a cabbage is sometimes just a cabbage. They called it The Long Winter of the Cabbage, and in the village of Chelm, few people were happy. There was
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Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum has written a book of major importance for contemporary Jews who are critical thinkers. Those who have read Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, or any of the myriad Jewish philosophers since the Enlightenment may be left questioning the biblical narratives in Genesis and Exodus and some of
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by Diane Joy Schmidt November 13, 2024 What resonates across the United States of America and Europe now, bringing a rightward swing and authoritarian governments to the ascendancy, is immigration. As used against the Other, a technique Jews are unfortunately very familiar with, the issue of immigration was employed very
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