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Your Questions
Why Say Shema at Bedtime?
Shema is included in the evening service. Yet the Talmud states that before one goes to sleep to sleep, he should recite the Shema. Why?
Shema is included in the evening service. Yet the Talmud states that before one goes to sleep to sleep, he should recite the Shema. Why?
What Is Parve (Pareve)?
Jewish law does not allow one to cook or consume meat together with milk products. Parve food, however, may be eaten together with both meat and milk.
Jewish law does not allow one to cook or consume meat together with milk products. Parve food, however, may be eaten together with both meat and milk.
Essay
I Jew, You Jew, I Tefillin, You Tefillin
If any Joe right off the street can be asked to wrap those leather boxes on his arm and head just because he has a Jewish mother, then Judaism can’t be an ism and certainly can’t be defined by membership dues.
If any Joe right off the street can be asked to wrap those leather boxes on his arm and head just because he has a Jewish mother, then Judaism can’t be an ism and certainly can’t be defined by membership dues.
Video
What It Was Like to Liberate the Old City
A third generation Jerusalemite tells of life in Jerusalem and his personal experience liberating the Jewish quarter during the opening days of the war.
A third generation Jerusalemite tells of life in Jerusalem and his personal experience liberating the Jewish quarter during the opening days of the war.
Story
Why Were the Innkeeper's Blessings Fulfilled?
Rumors began to circulate that whenever the innkeeper gave a blessing, it would materialize. People began frequenting his inn just to receive a blessing for whatever they needed.
Rumors began to circulate that whenever the innkeeper gave a blessing, it would materialize. People began frequenting his inn just to receive a blessing for whatever they needed.
A Jew Named Elliot
It wasn't about until a year after meeting Elliot that I found out that he was Jewish, and that his name was Elliot Cohen. Although my Jew-radar failed me, the connection that Jews have when they find another Jew kicked in, and I tried to reach out in a more personal and meaningful way to Elliot.
It wasn't about until a year after meeting Elliot that I found out that he was Jewish, and that his name was Elliot Cohen. Although my Jew-radar failed me, the connection that Jews have when they find another Jew kicked in, and I tried to reach out in a more personal and meaningful way to Elliot.
Parshah
Rush and Return
The menorah, its lamps, and the flames they hold are the very mirror of our identity as a people, the way we interact with each other, and of the elemental strivings of the human soul
The menorah, its lamps, and the flames they hold are the very mirror of our identity as a people, the way we interact with each other, and of the elemental strivings of the human soul
Behaalotecha Haftarah Companion
In the final years before the the Babylonian Exile, there were some very difficult exchanges between true prophets and their false counterparts.
In the final years before the the Babylonian Exile, there were some very difficult exchanges between true prophets and their false counterparts.
In The News
Surprise! Rabbi’s Birthday Gift Comes With Lots of Wrapping
60 congregants put on tefillin in honor of their newly 60-year-old rabbi.
60 congregants put on tefillin in honor of their newly 60-year-old rabbi.
Memorial Service for David Chase Held at the Rabbinical College of America
Philanthropist was remembered for his unwavering support of Jewish causes worldwide.
Philanthropist was remembered for his unwavering support of Jewish causes worldwide.
Women
Why I Pray Every Day
I start my day stressed out, and it usually progresses that way until bedtime. ..
I start my day stressed out, and it usually progresses that way until bedtime. ..
Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man
and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Do not give anyone special recognition when rendering judgment; hear the small as well as the great; fear
no man; for the judgment is G-d's. And the thing that is too hard for you,
bring it to me, and I will hear it
— Moses' instruction to the magistrates, Deuteronomy 1:16-17
Print Magazine
In the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, a signal goes out to every Jewish soul that it is time to return to the palace that is home.
It is a signal both subtle and loud.
Subtle, because it does not awaken even those who are closest—every soul must awaken itself. Loud, because it reaches those who have been...
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