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How Do You Count an Omer?

       How do you count an Omer?  At the end of the second seder we begin one of the most arcane rituals in Jewish religious practice.  It is… Read More

Posted: May 5, 2016 by

Mazel Tov to Jacob!

Jacob Luterman is a kind-hearted 13 year old who enjoys his friends, fantasy fiction books, tennis, soccer, fishing and most subjects at school. He seems to have inherited the collector’s gene from… Read More

Posted: May 4, 2016 by

Four Redemption

Pesach 5776/ 23 April 2016

During my second year in Chicago, I helped start a RESOLVE peer-led infertility support group at Anshe Emet, a project that grew out of Rebecca’s and my struggles, through the past… Read More

Posted: April 25, 2016 by

Recap of Dennis Ross

What a treat! Living in Center City we are constantly bombarded with events that are educational, intellectual, or entertaining. What a special treat when an event is all three and… Read More

Posted: April 21, 2016 by

Speech, Stories, and Slavery

Shabbat HaGadol 5776/16 April 2016

In the brisk Latvian autumn of 1963, sixteen-year-old Yosef Mendelevich learned of a small group of Jews who spent Sundays in a pine forest outside Riga known as Rumbuli. On… Read More

Posted: April 18, 2016 by
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