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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:30 p.m. Torah: Lev. 12:1-15:33 Haftarah: II Kings 7:3-20 Havdalah: 8:33 p.m.                                                   It is customary at this point in our Torah lectionary cycle for rabbis to sermonize on the dangers of lashon hara, gossip. We are reminded, for example, of the Midrashic statement that gossip kills three people: the speaker, the […]

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I’m increasingly convinced that if you want to really see another culture, especially in the globalized West, you have to get out of the cities and into the countryside. This is always my advice to friends bound for Europe, where many cities — particularly those once united by empire — tend to look and feel […]

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