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I buried hundreds of old Jewish books. Inside each was a Jewish heart.

For a century-old building with poor storage space, a long-awaited renovation means clearing out crannies stuffed with all sorts of oddities.

By Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky May 5, 2021 4:41 pm

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I couldn’t go back to school. So I started a farm to connect with my Jewish values.

Twin sisters, filled with their father’s stories of growing up on a farm, are turning his 40-year-old vision of creating a perennial farm into reality.

May 4, 2021 4:27 pm

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Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice

Be mindful of how your relationship with your body — and how you talk about it publicly — impacts those around you, the founder of Fat Torah writes.

May 4, 2021 4:10 pm

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My son was at the Mount Meron disaster

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch May 3, 2021 4:47 pm

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What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?

By Gary Rosenblatt May 3, 2021 3:45 pm

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Israelis have turned Lag b’Omer into a nationwide party. Here’s how they celebrate.

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch April 28, 2021 4:26 pm

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The Japanese Americans who helped liberate Dachau knew the shared history of anti-Jewish and anti-Asian hate

By Hana Rudolph April 28, 2021 4:17 pm

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If rabbis can’t talk about public policy, what’s the point of Torah?

By Rabbi Michael Rothbaum April 22, 2021 12:25 pm

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A House bill on Israel is flawed, but our Jewish civil war is worse

By Yehuda Kurtzer April 21, 2021 4:05 pm

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Sorry, but Zoom Judaism just isn’t the real thing

By Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel April 20, 2021 12:33 pm

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