September 22, 2022
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atching. Watching my plants and waiting for rain. Waiting and watching, and oh yes, praying. It’s Shmita, and my plants outside need the rain. Of course, I am allowed to […]
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ith synagogues hiring new clergy to start on or around July 1, every year brings cantors and rabbis a challenge: Moving to a new city and a new congregation, not […]
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ith the Jewish New Year approaching, it’s a time for serious reflection, but it’s also a time for joyful optimism! The Israeli folk song “Bashanah Haba’ah” is a beautiful melody […]
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e’re just about a month away from the start of the Jewish holiday season, so we’re bringing you TC Jewfolk’s comprehensive guide to high holiday services across the region and […]
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Volunteer to Help Seniors Celebrate the High Holy Days
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havuot: some people refer to it as the Forgotten Major Jewish holiday. It gets much less press than Passover, which it follows. It doesn’t have the commercial glow of Hanukkah […]
Continue readingApril 28, 2022
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got the nickname, Holocaust Girl, back in college. Little did they—the poetry department mean girls—know, instead of feeling insulted and ridiculed, as they had hoped, I loved the designation. Holocaust […]
Continue readingApril 21, 2022
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or Hadar Pe’er, St. Paul’s Israeli shaliach, Passover in the Twin Cities has come with some surprises. “I’m coming here from a very different culture,” Pe’er said. “I’m seeing different […]
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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Jewish Light hough each of my children has gone through brief phases of packing her own lunch or buying at school, I […]
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his year, the Passover journey from Egypt and slavery to freedom and human dignity feels particularly poignant. The Hebrew word for Egypt, mitzrayim, also connotes “the narrow place,” a place […]
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