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FIRST PERSON I sat next to Richard Belzer in Hebrew school — and it was a hoot
He made off-color jokes, cast himself as the serpent in Eden and kept me giggling all the way to my bat mitzvah
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Sports Packers running back talks Hebrew schooling in very Jewish podcast appearance
AJ Dillon's got crazy quads, a popping TikTok and ... afikoman prizes?
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Opinion On the 100th birthday of the bat mitzvah, an artist remembers their own coming of age
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Culture She didn’t go to Hebrew school, but she she made an extremely accurate movie about it — a conversation with Olivia Peace
The most important scenes in “Tahara” take place where the best shul drama goes down: the ladies’ lounge. Possibly the most important amenity a synagogue can offer, the ladies’ lounge features way too many wicker baskets, a selection of castoff artwork incorporating the phrase “tikkun olam” and a well-worn couch conducive to dawdling and dishing…
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News Chicago Jewish schools make plans to open— and experience an enrollment boomlet
Reopening is close at hand for Chicago’s Jewish day schools, after-school programs, and public school Hebrew language departments. This means devising plans that meet parent’s safety expectations, local health regulations, and teacher safety needs— all while delivering quality instruction. The result, so far, is a diverse landscape of reopening plans, including increased enrollment in Jewish…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Missing After Jumping In Ocean To Rescue Student
(JTA) — The U.S. Coast Guard will continue what it is calling a recovery mission for a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in a state park in Virginia Beach, Virginia to save a student who was having trouble returning to shore. The 11-year-old student, who was at False Cape State Park on Tuesday afternoon…
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Opinion Hebrew School Isn’t Supposed To Be ‘Fun’
As a Jewish Soviet immigrant living in a tony New York City suburb, I don’t always fit in. Smalltalk in our WASPy town tends to center around real estate prices, traffic, and sports scores. Even the Jewish moms have impossibly shiny hair and perfect, glossy nails, their toned bodies forever clad in yoga pants. My…
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