Ode to Chanukah
Jewish Journal
December 29, 2005
Enjoy this poem by Sinai Akiba fifth-grader Shana Saleh as you munch on\nthose latkes.
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Celebrations/Simchas
Taking Winter Break on Jewish Time
Jennifer Garmaise
December 29, 2005
The current schedule was adopted by Orthodox schools in the last two decades, when the Orthodox community made a collective decision to follow a halachic ruling by the great contemporary sage, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, according to Rabbi Avrohom Stulberger, dean of Valley Torah High School in Valley Village and president of the Bureau of Jewish Education\’s Yeshiva Principal\’s Council.
The Best Presents: Ritual and Repetition
Sharon Duke Estroff
December 22, 2005
I was about to inquire how they could manage to consistently laugh like fiends each time they saw Stu dress up like Latke Man, but stopped short upon realizing that they could easily turn the question back on me. You see, I\’m no stranger to repetition myself, having managed to spend Thanksgiving on Hilton Head Island every year since I was in first grade.
Snip Judgment
Calev Ben-David
December 8, 2005
If you were circumcised as an adult and have experienced sexual relations both before and afterward, then Emily Bazelon wants to know about it. Why that concerns me — and may concern you — takes a little explaining.
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