Alicia Jo Rabins
By Alicia Jo Rabins
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Life Creating A Jewish Ritual For A Girl’s First Period
‘Any chance you can meet this afternoon? Molly got her first period, and we were thinking it would be nice to have a ritual,” Molly’s mother texts one fall Sunday. For months, Molly and I have been meeting weekly to prepare for her bat mitzvah. We meet in the Torah Hut, a small cabin in…
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Food Matzobraü: The Beer of Affliction
In preparation for Passover each spring, Jews stock their cupboards with matzo, observing the Biblical injunction to abstain from leavened food for eight days. And when the holiday ends, a box or two of matzo is usually pushed to the back of the pantry or tossed out with the trash. After all, it’s nearly impossible…
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