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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:38 p.m. Torah: Exodus 30:11-34:35 Haftarah: I Kings 18:1-39 Havdalah: 6:38 p.m.                                                 What could redound to the praise of Israel at this low point in their spiritual history, worshipping the Golden Calf so soon after Sinai? In the bloody aftermath of this betrayal, God’s decision not to go up with them […]

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She brought a mystical Jewish strain into her career in the Church and gave comfort to many converts from Judaism who struggled to maintain a connection to Jewish belief and practice. Teresa of Avila, a 16th-century saint whose grandfather was forced to renounce his Jewish identity by the Spanish Inquisition, never lost touch with her […]

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Deborah Feldman’s book, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” has garnered significant media attention since its publication. Recently, much of the focus has centered on whether some of Feldman’s claims are true or false. Unfortunately, this debate is eclipsing a far more important conversation that we, the readers in general and the Jewish […]

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