Thanksgiving could not have been more Normal Rockwell traditional in my childhood home. I woke up to the scent of a turkey already in the oven and came downstairs to find pies and more already …
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By Joni Schockett
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11/15/23
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Of the three major festivals on the Jewish religious calendar, Shavuot is the shortest, with a one-day observance in Israel and two days in the Diaspora. However, when we consider that this holiday …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/18/23
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One of Jerusalem’s most iconic religious traditions is the custom of writing prayers on scraps of paper and placing them in the cracks of the Kotel.
Visitors of all faiths leave thousands …
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9/13/23
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“The One who answered Joseph in jail, He will answer us.” So reads one of several imprisonment references in Yom Kippur prayers, in line with the themes of judgment and atonement of the …
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By Sergio Carmona, JNS
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9/20/23
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Twenty-seven Middle School students of Great Neck’s North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA) — both Ashkenazic and Sephardic — joined on Purim day to chant the “Gantze …
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3/8/23
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Earlier this month, Royal Auction House in Toms River, NJ, sold an 1806 illustrated, handwritten Tashlich guide for $5,000. Last month, Appel Auction in New York offered but didn’t sell a …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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9/20/23
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Wherefore is this Haggadah diff’rent from all oth’r Haggadahs?
Martin Bodek, author of the “Emoji Haggadah,” “Festivus Haggadah” and “Coronavirus …
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By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
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3/8/23
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In English references, names of our Jewish holidays are almost always listed and used in the Hebrew terms, even those that have English equivalents. That is all holidays, except one, Pesach, which …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/8/23
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State Attorney General Letitia James is alerting New Yorkers to be cautious of discriminatory pricing practices at car washes in advance of Passover. In previous years, car wash businesses in …
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3/22/23
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Rabbi Aryeh Pinchas Strickoff, author of “Inside Chanukah: Fascinating and Intriguing Insights on Chanukah, Its Miracles, and its History” (Feldheim 2012) perhaps said it best in his …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/29/23
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