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Being Jewish
Fiction: A Few Small Stones
Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.

Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.
Space, Time, Gravity and Zionism
Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

Cut & Post: Cookbooks, Prayerbooks and Israelis on the Road

Storied Feasts Jewish folklore is rich with captivating tales that skillfully incorporate food as a major plot element. It is with food—and cooking—in mind that

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Commentary: Sinai’s First Responders

by Tamar Frankiel

Shavuot, which celebrates the time we stood at Sinai, is associated first and foremost with hearing the Ten Commandments. But the Midrash brings a much

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Commentary: Friends & Enemies

by Samuel G. Freedman

“It is the obligation of each person,” the Talmud tells us of Purim, “to be so drunk as not to be able to tell the

Being Jewish

Family Matters: Pure and Prosaic

by Miriam Karp

I took a deep breath and joined the three women in the refrigerated room. Within lay two meisim, newly deceased and covered with long sheets.

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Commentary: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

by Sherri Mandell

In the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,

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Holidays

The Missing Heroine of Hanukka

by Judy Petsonk

This Hanukka, for the sake of our daughters, let’s tell the missing piece of the Maccabee story. Let’s celebrate the Queen of the Jews, who

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Family Matters: The Art of Being Jewish

by Rahel Musleah

From the age of 4 through high school, Kayleigh Renard attended St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A passionate trumpet player, she blew breath

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Commentary: The Temple’s Columns

by Randy Cohen

For the 12 years I wrote “The Ethicist” column for The New York Times Magazine, responding to readers’ moral dilemmas, I took a resolutely secular approach

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