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• Casting away your sins at Tashlich — it’s not just fish food

  September 14, 2012 3:15pm

  On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, a body of flowing water with fish and some bread crumbs are all that’s needed to begin the transformative process of tashlich. (Edmon J. Rodman) LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Can ridding oneself of a year’s sins really be as simple as tossing a piece of bread into the…

• Celebrating life with a tahara dance

  September 10, 2012 8:32pm

  A dance to interpret tahara, the seldom-discussed ritual preparation for burial of a Jewish body, is introduced at a Los Angele conference.

• For Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, art is a window into secret life

  July 16, 2012 8:11pm

  The upcoming gathering in Albuquerque of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies is part of a continuing effort to reveal the stories of those who may have had a hidden Jewish past.

• Now playing at a museum mah jongg table: Jewish pop culture

  July 9, 2012 7:30pm

  The “Project Mah Jongg” exhibit, which originated in New York, is making its way to Jewish museums across America, bringing back memories of bams and craks for generations of Jewish women and hopefully enticing new players.

• Tribal understandings: Jewish and Navajo spiritual leaders speak of sacred lands

  May 29, 2012 8:15pm

  A Navajo medicine man joins a rabbi for a series of cross-cultural discussions.

• Putting the Ten Commandments on display

  May 17, 2012 6:19pm

  Just because there’s a debate about the public appropriateness on displaying the Ten Commandments doesn’t mean you can’t surround yourself with them at shul — or even in your front yard.

• Dressing like my Jewish mother

  May 10, 2012 2:41pm

  Using his late mother’s Torah Fund pins as an example, columnist Edmon J. Rodman offers his take on what to do when one inherits something that represents another’s commitment.

• With a side of wry, a ‘schmucky’ deli truck rolls into L.A.

  May 3, 2012 6:04pm

  New Yorker Matthew Koven migrates west to open his rolling restaurant “Schmuck with a Truck.”

• Questionable behavior for after the seder

  March 30, 2012 7:25pm

  Why is the day after the seder different from all other days? Columnist Edmon J. Rodman figures it’s because of all the newly minted questions that drop into our brains like zuzim.

• Looking into Anne Frank’s unblinking eyes

  March 21, 2012 7:57pm

  Anne Frank’s likeness is now on display at Madame Tussauds in Berlin. Are we ready for a young Jewish martyr and personification of the Holocaust to be melted into the waxy mix?