Tradition dictates a glass of champagne on the secular New Year. But what can give you a nice buzz to celebrate the Jewish New Year? These Rosh Hashanah drinks from “Queen of Kosher” …
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Photos courtesy of JoyofKosher.com and Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller Magazine
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9/11/15
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Last year, Agudath Israel’s Constituent Services department received phone calls from college students whose professors had threatened that they must attend classes on Rosh Hashana or risk …
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Agudath Israel of America
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9/11/15
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In the traditions of many Jewish holidays, there’s a poetic relationship between the festival’s culinary laws and the season’s foods. While the relationship linking Rosh Hashanah …
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9/11/15
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Now that President Obama has enough senators that a veto of the bill opposing the Iran nuclear deal cannot be overturned, the postmortems have started. Some blame the president, others blame the …
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In this photo, taken on Sept. 15, 2001, a fireman signals for 10 more colleagues to join him on the World Trade Center pile. Last Monday, 23 Elul — the 14th anniversary of 9/11/01 on the Jewish …
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9/11/15
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The biggest news story of the week was about a clerk in Kentucky with a fundamentalist understanding of the Bible.
Among many reactions on social media, there was a clip from the “West …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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9/11/15
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The Shulamith School for Girls opened the school year in the former Number Five School in Cedarhurst, occupying its own building for the first time.
The school, with 540 students from …
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By Vanessa Parker
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9/11/15
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It was Rav Kook, in his commentary on Psalm 27:12, who taught us the following: “The purpose of prayer is to elevate the soul by bolstering its powers with images of holiness and perfection. …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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9/7/15
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Walking through Lviv, a Ukrainian city near the Polish border whose Jewish population is a small fraction of what it once was, it’s not uncommon to spot faded Hebrew letters on the outside of …
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By Eitan Arom, JNS.org
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9/3/15
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The concept of the Jewish people being Hashem’s am segulah is first introduced in Sefer Shemot 19:5: “And now, if you obey Me and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a treasure out of …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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9/3/15
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