Families throughout the area will come together in the holiday spirit shortly as we celebrate Passover and Easter.
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By Karen Bloom
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4/9/14
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I was scaling the shelves of a local supermarket, trying to beat out another shopper who was heading for a box of farfel, when I had an epiphany . . .
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4/4/14
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Consider the Yiddish word latke. It is what it sounds like, an onomatopoeic name for a flat, fried potato pancake consumed by Jewish people during Hanukkah.
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12/13/12
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It seems divinely appropriate when Christian and Jewish holidays coincide, but it doesn’t happen that often.
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4/5/12
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Thus it came to be in the land of Brooklyn that Morris Brownstein knew Anna Brownstein, his second cousin, and they begot Hilda, Murray, Pearl and Zelda. Pearl, third in the family order, is my mother and the only one who seems to have entirely escaped the questionable legacy of having parents who are also blood relatives.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/14/11
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In Judaism there is a healthy tension between the individual and the nation as a whole. There are times when our focus is inward toward our own development and goals, and other times when we are …
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Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak
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3/24/10
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