Spiritual Cleaning
Judy Gruen
March 25, 2004
There\’s something very ironic about Pesach. Why is it that getting ready to celebrate our liberation from slavery involves so much hard work?
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Keeping Jews in the Flock
Loolwa Khazzoom
March 4, 2004
We\’re told repeatedly that intermarriage is the death knell of the Jewish people, but let\’s face it: Jews have been intermarrying since the beginning of our tribe 4,000 years ago. Marrying "out" is precisely how we got Jews with looks covering the gamut from blonde hair and blue eyes to black skin and nappy hair. It\’s also one of the reasons that Hitler hated us: We were at it again, blending with the local race, destroying its ethnic purity.
Lights Were Last to Go
Kathleen Vallee Stein
December 25, 2003
My family never went to church but celebrated Christian holidays by putting up a Christmas tree in December and hunting for Easter eggs in the spring.
Yiddishkayt for Yiddle Ones
Leora Alhadeff
December 18, 2003
Hey parents… Uneasy about plopping your toddlers on the sofa to watch a puffy purple dinosaur? Think they need more Jewish culture?
Eight Crazy Lights
Leora Alhadeff
December 18, 2003
A kosher menorah can be fashioned out of any material, so why not get creative?
Trick or Treat?
Don Rutberg
October 30, 2003
I asked my long-time friend, "Are you a strict father?" "Not really," he said, "but I wouldn\’t let my daughter out for Halloween."
Mothers, Daughters Bond Over Torah
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
October 23, 2003
Netivot, the women\’s Torah study institute, will begin a program next month on a subject not often associated with Orthodoxy: bat mitzvah.
A Tabernacle Full of Knickknacks and Love
Andrea Adelson
October 2, 2003
Sukkot, the eight-day festival that begins Oct. 11, commemorates a central event in Jewish history: the 40-year desert trek that followed the exodus from Egypt when Jews lived in portable shelters or booths.
People celebrate the holiday by building, eating in — and sometimes sleeping in — a temporary structure topped by a \”natural\” covering, such as tree branches or a bamboo mat which allows star-gazing. The structure is a show of trust in God\’s protection. During the festival — sometimes called \”Tabernacles\” and \”The Harvest Festival\” — we also say a blessing over the four species: the lulav, etrog, hadas and arava.
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