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What is Counting the Omer? How can I participate?
I've been hearing a lot about 'Counting the Omer' lately. What does this mean and how can I participate? “Counting the Omer (Sefirat haOmer)”...
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Judaism & Spirituality
Celebrate Shavuot with an Ice Cream Party
The holiday of Shavuot, or the Festival of Weeks, which falls this year on May 27, marks the Jewish community’s receiving of the Torah on...
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Kids & Parenting
No Flour, No Torah: Passover and The Hunger Games
A few years ago, something interesting happened. More or less overnight, otherwise intelligent people decided, en masse, that carbs were evil. (If you read The...
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Food
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Milk and Honey
Last week I went outside to Rich who was busy working on his bicycle. “Honey, right now I’m cooking some wheat berries in the...
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Shavuot: Best Idea Ever or Potential Catastrophe?
In Jewish tradition, Shavuot is the holiday of eating dairy and studying Torah all night. As someone who struggles with insomnia and who has a...
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The Tenth Commandment: A Personal Reflection by Judy Ravech
Image credit, Cafe Press user Hebrew Art OrnamentsEd. Note: Today we present this final post in the Ten Commandment Series. Written by Judy Ravech, today's...
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The Ninth Commandment: A Personal Reflection by Ina Glasberg
Image credit, Scientific American. Ed. Note: Today's post is the ninth in our series on the ten commandments. As a reminder, each of these individual...
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The Eighth Commandment: A Personal Reflection by Mindy Pasco-Anderson
Image credit is artfeeds.org, a program dedicated to inspiring children through art. Their slogan is "Love Naively. Give Generously. Be Foolishly Compassionate."Ed. Note: With this...
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The Seventh Commandment: A Personal Reflection by Daniel Barkowitz
The image to the left comes from the web page for Jewish Marriage Encounter in Israel.Ed. Note: This post, by Daniel Barkowitz, continues our series...
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Judaism & Spirituality
Sacred Story-Telling
As we near the end of counting the fifty days between Passover and Shavuot, the Jewish Birth Network is counting down the days until...
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