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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:27 p.m. Torah: Ex. 38:21-40:38 Haftarah: I Kings 7:51-8:21 (Ashkenaz); 7:40-50 (Sephard) Havdalah: 6:27 p.m. ‘And the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Sanctuary. And Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud rested upon it…” [Exodus 40:34-35]. What […]

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The findings of the recent study of American Jews by the Pew Research Center have generated a lot of ink, not the least in responses from Jewish religious movements. We have heard the Orthodox expressions of the Church Triumphant. We have witnessed the scurrying for cover on the part of some other groups. In the […]

The first seder is more than six weeks away, but it’s the heart of the Passover season at the Manischewitz production facility in Newark, N.J. During the baking season, more than a four million pounds of kosher-for-Passover matzah roll out of the oven, ready for boxing and shipping to points around the world. About 20 […]

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