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07Mar

Guest post by Chaya Kurtz: “The talk around town is cleaning for Pesach. This is horrible on so many counts that I can’t even begin to count them.”Continue Reading

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17Feb

In this guest post, Leigh Hershkovitz meditates on how she has learned to balance her identity as a writer with her new Jewish identity.Continue Reading

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15Feb

As Yerachmiel turns 25, he meditates on his evolving life.Continue Reading

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08Feb

Yerachmiel describes how a recent interaction between a son and father, and himself and a beggar, helped him understand this week’s parsha.Continue Reading

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01Feb

Yerachmiel gets an offer that sounds too good to be true.Continue Reading

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25Jan

Yerachmiel returns for his Friday post with a few complaints about the way people are talking about the weather.Continue Reading

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18Jan

Yerachmiel helps us rethink our idea of where G-d is and how to find Him.Continue Reading

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04Jan

What can baseball teach us about becoming a Beinoni?Continue Reading

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28Dec

In this week’s Friday column, Yerachmiel contemplates the deeper side of cookies, ex-Soviet Jews, and obsession.Continue Reading

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21Dec

Yerachmiel helps us get into the holiday mood with a lesson from “It’s A Wonderful Life”.Continue Reading

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