Date archive for December, 2011
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Eight Nights to Renew Your Inner Jewish Child
Happy Chanukah to all my readers! The festival of lights is a good time to remember our Jewish holidays are for everyone. So even if you’re over 12, light that chanukiyah with pride. All eight nights.
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You Take the Good, You Take the Bad
A Jew who’s always happy is like an Illinois Governor who’s always law-abiding. The concept is faulty on the face of it. Simcha and tsouris go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. In life, or on the blogosphere.
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You Got Your Bar Mitzah Ceremony in My Shabbat Morning Service!
When the b’nai mitzvah crowds elbow regular synagogue members out of the sanctuary, whose Shabbos is it, anyway?
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The December Dilemma Is a Choice
I thought a lot about the Jewish ‘December Dilemma’ before putting up my holiday tree this year. I kept coming back to one question. What, exactly, are we afraid of in the first place?
