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By the Numbers
15 Wild and Wonderful Things Jews (Don’t) Do With Fish
For Jews, fish are much more than a scrumptious supper—they play a key role in many cherished, time-honored traditions and customs.
For Jews, fish are much more than a scrumptious supper—they play a key role in many cherished, time-honored traditions and customs.
Your Questions
Ask the Rabbi: Why Do Jews Bury in a Simple Pine Casket?
Long ago the wealthy would be buried in expensive materials, and the poor were embarrassed.
Long ago the wealthy would be buried in expensive materials, and the poor were embarrassed.
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Unlocking Doors on Shabbat
With advancements of technology, locks and keys have become more sophisticated, posing a host of potential problems.
With advancements of technology, locks and keys have become more sophisticated, posing a host of potential problems.
Voices
Why Jewish Women Will Bring Moshiach
As human beings, we have compassion and can be empathic. We see someone in pain and want to help. But only very few righteous and holy people are at the level where they would be willing, if they could, to take away that pain and feel it themselves. Yet this is how a mother (or father) feels any time her child is hurt.
As human beings, we have compassion and can be empathic. We see someone in pain and want to help. But only very few righteous and holy people are at the level where they would be willing, if they could, to take away that pain and feel it themselves. Yet this is how a mother (or father) feels any time her child is hurt.
Parshah
Should We Forgive the Nazis?
What does the Torah, speaking on behalf of the creator of morals and ethics, have to say about this? If G‑d were confronted, so to speak, with this complex moral query, how would He respond?
What does the Torah, speaking on behalf of the creator of morals and ethics, have to say about this? If G‑d were confronted, so to speak, with this complex moral query, how would He respond?
Feeling Financial Pressure Can Be a Good Thing
We equate money with security, success, power, comfort or self-esteem. It follows then that when we lack money, it feels like we lack everything that makes life worthwhile and meaningful.
We equate money with security, success, power, comfort or self-esteem. It follows then that when we lack money, it feels like we lack everything that makes life worthwhile and meaningful.
Learning From the Rebbe
"Miriam... took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances..." (Song at the Sea, Exodus 15:20) How did the Israelites have tambourines in the desert? But the righteous women of that generation were certain that G-d will perform miracles for them, and they prepared tambourines and dances while still in Egypt...
— Midrash Mechiilta; Rashi on verse
Print Magazine
Sometimes you feel like you’re going about life as just another grain of dust blown by the wind.
You get to your home and there’s a mezuzah on the door.
You are a Jew. You are the Jewish people.
You are Abraham. You are Sarah. You are every Jew who has ever lived.
You, your family, your home, every moment of y...
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