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Opening Move-In Weekend Freshmen Shabbat 2015

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Chipped Chocolate

Our daughter Bassie turns ten just after the first of the Hebrew month of Elul. We were on the road all Thursday before Shabbat with little time to make a homemade cake, so we stopped at a Jewish bakery on ...

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Join the Crowd – It’s Hakhel Year!

This is the front page letter in our Spring/Summer 2015 “What’s Cooking” Update Newsletter

JOIN THE CROWD – IT’S HAKHEL YEAR!

Generally speaking, at Sh...

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Q. Why is the Locust exemption only in Leviticus & not in Deut?

Q. That’s a careful reading of the Chumash! You are right: Leviticus (Parshat Shmini) spells out the permissible of (certain) locusts, while Deut (Parshat Re’ah) does not.

And yes, it is...

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Two Stories of Positive Pasts

A visiting psychologist from Israel shared these two stories “of positive pasts” at a summertime Cozy Shabbat from her many years of practice:

1) She had a religious patient...