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EST 1917

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(JTA) — It was a rough welcome for Mike Bloomberg. The one-time Republican took a beating Wednesday night from the five other candidates on the Democratic debate stage in Las Vegas, who took aim at the former New York City mayor’s record on policing, treatment of women and support for workers. The onslaught against Bloomberg […]

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We said goodbye to our housekeeper one evening back in November. Jovanka had been coming to our home for more than 20 years, yet we’d never gone over to hers. The truth is that we hadn’t expected a social invitation, the reasons having nothing to do with the fact that we kept kosher and she […]

It occurred to me, as I was setting the table for Shabbat, that arranging candlesticks, kiddush cups and soup bowls is a mundane example of imitatio dei, an act that imitates God’s example. How so? In Hebrew, the words for a set table are shulchan aruch. This expression is familiar to many, as “Shulchan Aruch” […]

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