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Challah: What We Knead To Know

Some Background Growing up, I knew that it was customary to eat Challah on Shabbat, but I didn’t know that the actual mitzvah of Challah...

Pesach: The Time Of Our Personal Freedom

The Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches, “in every generation, and every day, a Jew must see himself as if he had that day been liberated from...

A Modern-Day Purim Story: Nothing Is Random

Trump holds a banquet at the White House to celebrate his presidency. Top members of the Jewish community are invited. Kosher food will...

Know That It Is Good: How To Turn Complaints Into Gratitude

When God splits the sea and the Jewish people cross through from slavery to freedom, Miriam takes out her tambourine and the women play...

The Modern Day Exodus

Returning to the epic Exodus story, Egypt is a hot mess. The Nile turns to blood; frogs, lice, wild animals, and locusts run rampant; and...

Above The Stars: The Jewish View on Astrology

I used to love checking my horoscope. Every morning for years, without fail, I went online to see how the stars were aligned for me that...

Noah’s Flood: Natural or Miraculous?

Why The Flood? Why would G-d, after creating the world and all of animal and human life, destroy most of life so soon after? The Talmud...

A Sukkot Story of Divine Protection

Two Sukkots ago, I found myself walking with my friend in an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem holding a lulav. We had intended to walk...

In The Shade of Faith

The underlying happiness during Sukkot is that we celebrate our emunah (faith) and bitachon (trust) in Hashem. The holiday of Sukkot...

The Secret To Our Best Year Yet

Rosh Hashanah is almost here. On these days, everything will be decided for the coming year: our health, our finances, our relationships,...

God Is Our Father and Our King

Avinu Malkeinu, Our Father, Our King, is a main prayer that we say during the High Holidays. On Rosh Hashanah, which is Hebrew for “the...

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