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Sometimes a Gift Is Just a Gift
Judaism. “I’m kind of obsessed with Freud,” she said. Her Freud doll has become one of her favorite distractions; she dances with Freud to Destiny’s Child and treats Freud like a teddy bear — sleeping with it every night. “This sounds really insane,” Hernandez said. Yes, go on. “Freud has these felt pants…. Whenever I…
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At 28, a Woman Finally Feels Like a Jewish Adult
Over the past two months, I’ve been in synagogue on Shabbat four times, way more than normal, because of back-to-back family bar and bat mitzvahs. I was asked to read from the Torah at two of the services, for the first time since my own bat mitzvah 15 years ago. It seems only fitting that…
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Moses and the Miracles Of Wood and Water
In memory of Martin Luther King Jr., who taught us how to go forward. Our rabbis teach us in a midrash that when God created trees, they were full of pride because of their towering stature. Then God created iron, and those trees that could foresee the axe trembled with fear. “Why do you tremble?”…
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Does Kiddush-Happy Hubby Need Intervention?
On Shabbat my husband drinks almost an entire bottle of wine by himself. He makes kiddush and, after the rest of the family has had their obligatory taste, he polishes off the bottle. Does this mean he is an alcoholic? Should I be concerned? — Bottoms up By all means be concerned. As for whether…
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Tucking Away Childhood in a Pink Bag
When our daughters were young my family threw itself zestfully into Jewish observances. We lit candles on Friday nights and said Havdalah. We wrote our own Purim play and made magnificent Esther costumes. We baked Rosh Hashana challah and built a sukkah. The girls went to the temple nursery school, religious school and children’s services….
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Beware of the Hardening Heart
This week’s portion, Bo, describes the last three plagues: locusts, darkness and the slaying of all the firstborn of Egypt. Is it conceivable that Pharaoh’s stiff-necked, self-destructive behavior, so vividly portrayed in the story of the plagues, could be interpreted in such a way as to actually have lessons for ourselves? I mean ourselves both…
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