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do candles have feelings?

Posted on 2009/12/14 by davka

Sun­day night, Decem­ber 13, with the staff of Hazon, I had the plea­sure of expe­ri­enc­ing (and meet­ing) Yis­rael Camp­bell. He has a one-man show (per­­for­­mance/­s­­tand-up rou­tine) now play­ing at the Bleeck­er Street The­ater (near HUC-JIR). The New York Times gave it a pos­i­tive … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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What is the meaning of:
“weaving together fringes of Jewish life”?

Posted on 2009/05/30 by davka

Do you wear a Kip­pah and/or Tzitz­it? On Sep­tem­ber 24, 1996 I asked my rab­binic col­leagues… in par­tic­u­lar, those who wear Kip­pot (and request/require the stu­dents in their con­gre­ga­tions to wear Kip­pot when either study­ing or enter­ing the syn­a­gogue), whether they wear … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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