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Akiva Gersh Opens Online Vegan Shul

On Aug. 1, Akiva Gersh, who has been known as the “vegan rabbi” on social media since 2020, opened the Vegan Shul.

A Lovely Lentil Soup

For Sephardic Jews, it is customary to eat lentils during the nine days before Tisha B’Av as lentils are a mourner’s food.

On Mikvah, Poetry, Mental Health and Theater

This is a story of how my friendship with the poet Hava Pinhas-Cohen, some of whose poetry I have translated for this paper, intersected with my theater work.

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