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• Yom Kippur: It’s fourth and long

  September 22, 2011 8:03pm

  On Yom Kippur, the ultimate game day for Jews, columnist Edmon J. Rodman says we can apply football’s well-known pattern of timed territorial struggle to the personal struggle being played out for our attention, intention and understanding.

• Dozing on the Days of Awe

  September 22, 2011 6:48pm

  What if you “accidentally” hit the snooze button while sitting in Rosh HaShanah or Yom Kippur services? JTA columnist Edmon J. Rodman says it isn’t so terrible — and could even help spiritually.

• Milken Community loses first football game to San Diego Jewish Academy

  September 2, 2011 12:10pm

  Two West Coast Jewish high school football teams squared off in a game dubbed the Bagel Bowl.

• Seeking a conversion in time for Shavuot

  June 1, 2011 4:06pm

  On Shavuot, Jews read about Ruth, the Bible’s most famous convert, making the holiday a good time to reassess attitudes toward Jews by Choice in our own communities.

• That Aching Matzah Belly

  April 22, 2011 11:09pm

  The Passover haggadah hopes that next year we will all be free, but what about now? Does consuming all that matzah have you feeling a little less "free" than usual?   To keep you on the march to freedom, no less a food authority  than Bon Appetit magazine has published a timely "5 Ways to Cure Matzo Belly."…

• Pass Go, collect frogs

  April 18, 2011 10:41pm

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• Escaping the box: 18 minutes to Passover freedom

  April 1, 2011 11:39pm

  JTA columnist Edmon J. Rodman decides this year that he will personalize his Exodus story by baking his own matzah. How hard could it be? he figured. Check out his unleavened adventure.

• Retelling Purim: Q & A with Mordechai, Esther, Vashtie and Hayman

  March 13, 2011 1:56am

  Interviews with some prominent folks whose names either come from the Megillah or sound like they are straight from the scroll.

• How to throw a Jewish Oscar party

  February 16, 2011 2:26am

  How do you make an Oscar party Jewish? Should there be a set ritual, like the seder? Or, like Purim, an evening filled with costumes, beauty pageants, shouting at bad guys and lots to drink? JTA’s Edmon Rodman is on the case.

• Collecting Lincoln: The making of a national treasure

  February 15, 2011 10:23pm

  Little known outside of bibliophiles and Civil War buffs, one of the greatest private collectors of works about Abraham Lincoln was a Jewish clothing manufacturer executive from Chicago named Alfred Whital Stern.