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Category Archives: holidays
30 Days before the Festival
Everyone I know, Jew and Gentile alike, can’t stand how Christmas has become a two month celebration starting basically right after Halloween. It’s OD. For almost a solid month some radio stations play nothing but Christmas music, though I noticed … Continue reading
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A Difference in Beginnings-Parshat Shemot 2012
Happy New Years! I’m late I know. I also know the change of the calendar really means absolutely nothing. Just like the change of the Mayan calendar, not a thing has changed from 2012 to 2013. Change is a result … Continue reading
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The “Holiday” Experience
Guess what I’m doing today? Substitute teaching, what else! Growing up on Long Island in the 1980’s, I really couldn’t imagine Christmas being a regular day. It really doesn’t matter that I’m Jewish. I grew up in an Italian neighborhood … Continue reading
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The One Thing That Messed Sukkot
One girl’s public breakdown on Sukkot was a lesson for me about relationships. Continue reading
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More Important Than Shul
I missed musaf. I missed minha and neilah as well. I did them but not with not with a minyan, which definitely took away from the experience. Where was I on the holiest day of the year? At the playground … Continue reading
Rosh HaShanah/Yom Kippur Greeting
Maybe it’s because I’m Jewish, and maybe because I’m an educator. I personally feel that this time is a time of renewal. A lot of changes have happened in life: career, accommodations, family. My life has personally changed radically. I see it … Continue reading
Parshat Devarim 2012-The End of the Trip
Parshat Devarim is the beginning of the end, a bunch of ends actually. The entire book of Devarim takes place over one day, the last day of Moshe’s life. It is the beginning of his last advice and rebukes to … Continue reading
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Parshat BMidbar 2012-A Flag on the Play
Jews are not an ostentatious people, at least not as far as our religion is concerned. Most synagogues are small and not so fancy on the outside at least, even if the congregation is large. Our ceremonies are elaborate but how … Continue reading
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Shavuot-Why Would Anyone Convert
I ask a simple question and the answer is not so simple. Why would anyone convert to Judaism? There’s so many religions and we’re not proselytizing and some would say we are even pushing people away. Even more than that, so … Continue reading
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Parshat Behar-Behokutai 2012-The Sanctity of Jerusalem Day
Not quite on everyone’s radar as holidays go is Yom Yerushaliyim, Jerusalem Day. Because of the fact that Shavuot happens so soon after and people make such a big deal over Yom Ha’Atzmauot (Israeli Independence Day), Yom Yerushaliyim gets lost … Continue reading
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