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    Yom Kippur

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    Cast­ing Off

    Stu­art Nadler​’s first book, The Book of Life, is now avail­able. He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.For me, the year has always…
    Stu­art Nadler
    September 26, 2011
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    Tash­lich at Tur­tle Rock
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    Favorite Fic­tion­al Jew­ish Characters

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn hon­or of Rosh Hashanah (and in time for Yom Kip­pur), The Huff­in­g­ton Post (and Huff­Post read­ers) share their favorite Jew­ish…
    JBC Staff
    September 16, 2010
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    High Hol­i­day Reading

    Jew­ish Book World review­er Eric Ack­land exam­ines three new books from Jew­ish Lights that tack­le dif­fer­ent aspects of the High Hol­i­days expe­ri­ence (this…
    Eric Ack­land
    September 7, 2010
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    Why Do They Call it Fast­ing When it Goes SO SLOW?

    On Mon­day, Stacey Bal­lis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cook­ing. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, is now available.As I men­tioned before, my Judaism,…
    Stacey Bal­lis
    September 1, 2010
    Essay

    Rab­bi Joseph Telushkin Shares His Thoughts…

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterAs we approach the new year, Rab­bi Joseph Telushkin shares his thoughts on Rosh Hashanah and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish…
    Joseph Telushkin
    September 10, 2009
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