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(JTA) On the second night of Rosh Hashanah, in my second year of rabbinical school, while working at my first-ever High Holiday pulpit, I accidentally conceived. I had my first bout of morning sickness in our introductory Talmud course, and my first pregnancy craving during Hebrew Literature and Grammar (I still swear that pickles on pizza is a million-dollar idea). I took my pregnancy test on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, and whispered the blessing asher yatzar et haadam bchochmah, who created human beings with wisdom, when it read positive.
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admin | September 4, 2021
There are still a lot of people who have not been vaccinated against covid and it is not surprising that the rabbis have been considering the implications of vaccination since the time of the Talmud.
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admin | September 4, 2021
Discerning sweetness requires effort. Discerning sweetness requires effort
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For some 1,000 years, many Ashkenazi Jews have observed the same ritual every Yom Kippur Evewaving a chicken over their head. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week.
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Grief is a complicated animal. I have often described its presence to my congregants as a mountain sometimes it is across from you and you can see it, sometimes you are climbing it, sometimes you have summited it and sometimes it is just right on top of you
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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When we think of the Zionist pantheon, philosopher Jacob Klatzkin does not come to mind: Klatzkins vision was brilliant but limited.
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My eyes are filled with tears my heart is bursting with pride as I think about that indelible image. It symbolizes everything. The C17 military plane was filled to the brim with over 600 Afghan refugees desperate to leave Kabul
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Every culture has its own apocalypse theories. For the Mayans, it was the year 2012; for One Direction fans, it was when Zayn first announced he'd left the group.
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I dedicate this essay to the memory of my late friend, David Dolinko. We were schoolmates from second or third grade through high school.
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