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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.

Israel’s leading environmentalist remains as busy as ever, founding one ecological group after another in his singleminded pursuit to save the country’s natural treasures. Alon

Being Jewish

Commentary: Learning Diversity from Trees

Like a tree, the Jewish holiday for trees has changed and evolved throughout history. In the 16th century, the kabbalists of Safed transformed Tu Bishvat

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Feature: The Greening Of Kashrut

In Connecticut, New York and California, young Jewish activists are taking responsibility for procuring, slaughtering and distributing kosher meat. Why the sudden interest? On a

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Feature: Finding (Jewish) Roots

A group of idealistic and determined young eco-activists are drawing spiritual sustenance from working and protecting the land, getting their hands dirty in a variety

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Feature: Message from the Sources: A Time to Save the Planet

Jews have a decades-long record of protecting the earth, finding Jewish inspiration in rewriting their dominion over the land into tending God’s domain.. The early

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Letter from Brooklyn : Do the Right Thing

Can a person do for others at the same time that he does for himself? Here is one entrepreneurial davener’s story. The Sunday morning service was

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Commentary: Riches by the Pocketful

The Talmud (Eruvin 65) suggests that a person is defined by what he carries in his pockets. Every Thanksgiving, I look into my pockets and

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Commentary: Questions of Faith

by David Wolpe

I was 12 when I stopped believing in God. I lost my faith when I first encountered the horrific images of the Holocaust in the