Are you not Jewish, but keeping a Jewish home and raising Jewish kids? Do you have questions about “doing Jewish,” or Jewish home rituals? Do you have concerns about your child’s coming bar/bat mitzvah? Has something bothered you or puzzled you in the Jewish community? Are some (or all) of the holidays confusing? Or fun,…
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Celebrating Holidays in the Interfaith Family
HOME SWEET HOME: Celebrating Holidays in Interfaith Families Christmas and Chanukah, Easter and Passover, December and April can be challenging times for Jewish families and interfaith families. The whole country seems to be wrapped up in a holiday that Jews don’t observe. Can an interfaith family celebrate both holidays? How would that work for…
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Every year I tell you not to start negotiating change in December. Here we are in early November so we can talk about tweaking the December holidays. I’m not suggesting a complete overhaul. (Making big changes should be discussed and anticipated.) But knowing that we are heading into December brings up the question: of…
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Dear Friends, Eight years ago we all ran to the television or the radio as we learned the news of the planes hitting the Twin Towers in New York. It was a morning of shock and fear. I know for a fact that at least one person on this list was one of the…
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Dear Chevreh, Rabbi Menachem Creditor shared these memories and thoughts on that Sept. 11, eight years ago. I remember leaving class at JTS that Tuesday morning and going downstairs to move my car. A friend was in the elevator when I got in and asked, “did you hear about the planes that flew into the World…
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The big crush of Chanukah meets Christmas will begin this coming weekend when Chanukah starts on Sunday night. With it comes the question of just how many presents do we give the kids? How will we wrap them? Where and when will we open them? I vote for fewer presents and more memories. Every…
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