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Are We Adults or Children?
By Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov
When adults make choices with the same sagacity as an 8-year-old, without paying much heed to the possible consequences to their actions, the results are going to be chaotic and catastrophic.
Chanukah in the Shanghai Jewish Ghetto
By Deborah Strobin and Ilie Wacs
A sister and brother revisit their childhood Chanukahs, celebrated in the shadow of the Nazi regime.
Hillel vs. History at Chanukah
By Anna Batler
The real miracle of the Chanukah story is our willful forgetting of the historic Maccabees and their holy war.
The Atheists' Gift to Christmas
By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Pray for an atheist—and thank him for making your holiday season more spiritually significant.
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By Guest Contributor
10/22/10
11 Comments
Your השקפה – hashkafa is your level of observance/philosophy towards your Jewish practice. This has been seriously highlighted (highlit?) in my life lately. Really ever since I came to Jerusalem. Being on a path to increased observance for almost 12 years, there have been subtle changes to my hashkafa and some less subtle ones. Subtle [...]More »
By Guest Contributor
10/07/10
2 Comments
I am on a journey. We know the journey never ends. At least that is what all the stories and moshuls* and cliche’s tell us. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. Every step along the way provides new cognizance, illumination, and often times erudition of ideas. I have lived 30 long years. Nothing in [...]More »
By Guest Contributor
09/27/10
Sukkot in Jerusalem is really a sight to be seen. There are sukkahs on top of sukkahs. Every restaurant has one on the street (why? because men especially must eat all their food in a sukkah, if that is your minhag [tradition] and if a restaurant wants to be open during sukkot, they have to [...]More »
By Guest Contributor
09/27/10
1 Comment
All of the holidays in Israel are somewhat of a surreal experience. This is especially the case for any of us who come from towns, cities, or places where we aren’t surrounded by Jews constantly. If you live in Crown Heights or Boro Park or Williamsburg or even the Pico/Robertson area in LA… you are [...]More »
By Guest Contributor
09/24/10
Prior to coming back to Jerusalem this summer, I had a very fuzzy but definitive picture of Jerusalem in my mind. It was built upon memories from the mind of 16 year old me. From the time I came to Jerusalem for the fall semester of my junior year of high school… 13 years ago. [...]More »
By Guest Contributor
09/22/10
3 Comments
The Laws of Sukkah According to Dr. Seuss You can build it very small 1 You can build it very tall 2 You can build it very large 3 You can build it on a barge You can build it on a ship 4 Or on a roof but please don’t slip 5 You can [...]More »
By Guest Contributor
09/02/10
1 Comment
There was a moment when I seriously thought I would have to sleep on the sidewalk in Jerusalem and never find my Yeshiva... More »
By Guest Contributor
09/01/10
2 Comments
Read about the author's adventure in getting to Israel, all the twists and turns of a facinating adventure.More »
By Guest Contributor
07/20/10
29 Comments
Today truly marks the saddest day in Judaism. From the destruction of our Holy Temple (twice) to the defeat of Bar Kochba, to the Crusades and the events that laid the ground work for the Holocaust... today is a day of sadness and fasting for Jews all over the world.More »

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