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• 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.

• For Justin Bieber, ‘Scooter’ and the Shema play a major presence

  February 9, 2011 8:22pm

  With the biographical documentary and concert film recounting the rise of Justin Bieber opening Feb. 11, a look at the teen sensation’s Jewish manager, Scott Samuel “Scooter” Braun, his “Jewish road dad” who introduced the Shema to the singer’s pre-concert repertoire.

• Super Sunday scores with fun and tzedakah

  February 1, 2011 6:41am

  A friendly competition between religious schools in Green Bay and Pittsburgh is part of the game plan of fun and tzedakah-oriented events being executed for adults and children on Super Sunday.

• Repairing the world, and your home, on Tu b’Shvat

  January 11, 2011 8:40pm

  The Jewish green day of Tu b’Shvat is not just the new year for trees anymore. It’s also about “tikkun olam,” repairing the world. But how about getting to that broken dishwasher first?

• Jewish football teams want a bowl of their own

  December 28, 2010 3:52am

  Has the time come for a real Jewish football league? (Note: Flag footballers need not apply.)_