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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Cry of the Giraffe, by Judie Oron: a review

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Wuditu, an Ethiopian Jewish girl, has her life disrupted by war and anti-Jewish violence in her home country. She and her family are separat...

Saturday, October 13, 2012

And When It Is Too Hard, Cry Out!

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Suffering in silence is not a Jewish virtue. When our ancestors were slaves in Egypt, according to the book of Exodus: The Israelites w...

Monday, September 7, 2009

From Temple to Synagogue...and Beyond? (part II)

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Is Tisha B'Av a day of grief for us, 2000 years after the Roman Empire turned the Temple into a battered, solitary wall? As I started t...

Sunday, September 6, 2009

From Temple to Synagogue...and Beyond?

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The summer months in America are typically a time for vacation and relaxation. Few Jews and hardly any non-Jews realize that on the Jewish ...

Monday, May 25, 2009

A Day to Remember

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On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wildern...

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