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kiddush
Schools caution on alcohol during Simchat Torah
Jared Sichel
September 24, 2013
Dozens of men sit around a few tables, humming a soft Chasidic niggun (tune), swaying slowly back and forth, noshing on cold cuts, salads and light snacks. Some are sipping on small cups of vodka. Most wear white dress shirts, black dress pants and a long black coat.
LimmudLA Fest: Less is more
Jewish Journal
August 21, 2013
There are very few places where one could learn about the Jewish prison population, sing Kiddush with a Broadway legend and do tai chi — all in one weekend.
An interview with Ayelet Shaked
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2012
With the run-up to the first-ever internal primaries for the Jewish Home Party (Ha-Bayit Ha-Yehudi) in full steam, one of the most hotly discussed issues is the candidacy of 36-year old Ayelet Shaked.
Opinion: The embrace
Rob Eshman
February 8, 2012
At the end of Shabbat services last Saturday, I watched a 7-year-old boy recite the blessing over the wine, the Kiddush. His voice was pure, the Hebrew, a learned language for him, flowed fast and flawlessly from his mouth. His face shone.
Late to shul, on time for kiddush
Jewish Journal
November 1, 2011
My friend and I go to the same synagogue but almost never run into each other. “How come?” I was musing the other day.
Stumbling through my bat mitzvah
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
January 11, 2008
My bat mitzvah was an unmitigated disaster.
I\’d hoped the guests would be as taken as I was with my dress, first high heels and the orange and yellow petit fours at the Kiddush.
Sukkot: the beauty of fragility
Rabbi Daniel Greyber
October 5, 2006
On Sukkot, the time tradition tells us is zman simchateinu, the season of our joy, we dwell in a fragile hut, open to the winds and rain and cold of the world, to remind ourselves that our joy is enriched, is deepened, when we glimpse, if only for a moment, how weak and fragile we are.
Pico-Robertson Live in the ‘hood: Little sukkahs, on the hillside, little huts made of …
David Suissa
October 5, 2006
One of the great rituals of Jewish life: The sukkah.
The New Year’s Sephardic Seder
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 13, 2001
It may not be as long and involved as the Passover seder, but for Raquel Bensimon, the ritualized dinner of Rosh Hashana is just as sweet and just as replete with memories.
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