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tradition
The High Holy Days: Something meaningful, or just going through the motions?
Rob Eshman
September 23, 2014
Most of us who go to synagogue for the High Holy Days have no clue what’s going on.
The making of a beloved ‘Tradition’ with Barbara Isenberg
Jonathan Kirsch
September 3, 2014
Thanks to Barbara Isenberg and her effervescent and entertaining new book, “Tradition! The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical” (St. Martin’s Press), the soundtrack to “Fiddler” is back on Spotify in my office.
Israeli couples say ‘I don’t’ to Orthodox Jewish weddings
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2013
For most Israelis in the Jewish state, there is one legal way to get married – God\’s way. Israeli law empowers only Orthodox rabbis to officiate at Jewish weddings, but popular opposition is growing to this restriction and to what some Israelis see as an Orthodox stranglehold on the most precious moments of their lives.
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