Why Your New Year’s Resolution Stinks As Badly As My Pantry
There’s been a strange smell in our kitchen pantry for some time now. I’m not proud...
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A Little Bit of Oil Can Go a Long Way: How Jews Defeat Defeatism
Would you set out on an important road trip if you only had enough gas for the first 20 miles and no...
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Candlelight: How Chanukah Connects the Finite to the Infinite
When Chanukah came on Tuesday night, I was drained like I haven’t been drained in quite...
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Why Our Father In Heaven Put Our Temple In A “Time Out”
Although it was only a pretend cell phone it came really close to hitting my father’s...
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Why Matza Is Actually The Bread of Pleasure
I’ve been known to eat cookies in bed even though mothers tell you not to. Such...
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How I Got Myself To Stop Overindulging In Sweets
On Thursday morning I woke up to find my danish – the one that was meant...
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What If You Make A Mistake You Can’t Apologize For?
I did something really horrible a few years ago. Although it was completely unintentional, as...
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How Can You Build A Relationship With An Invisible Being?
The other day, as I was sitting in the kitchen after school with my children, I started thinking...
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Here’s One Reason Why I Cover My Knees
My husband is a bit of a survivalist. What I mean by that is that he...
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Are Orthodox Jews All The Same?
My downstairs neighbor is an older, self-described “not so religious” Jewish lady who lives with her cat and is...
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