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How To Do Tu Bishvat

Tu Bishvat: The New Year of the Trees Called the “Birthday,” “New Year of the Trees” and “Jewish Earth Day,”...

Editor’s note: This year is different, and some of these activities are more accessible right now than...

My family never really celebrated Tu Bishvat, though I do have faint recollections of making little tree-shaped...

We’ll have to practice stepping on glasses in these shoes – and we’ll keep our fingers crossed...

Alexandra with her parents and fiancé The decision to get married inevitably invites inquiry. How did you meet?...

This blog post was reprinted with permission from j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California. I recently...

I went to Congregation Rodeph Shalom’s Purim celebration this year. (Or last year, by the Hebrew calendar.) The...

On the Shabbat of Sukkot, the harvest festival that the Pilgrims chose as a model for Thanksgiving, the scroll...

814 The Holiday Dinner Jeff and Jenny planned to spend Passover with Jeff’s Jewish parents. They...

(In which someone finally answers the question, “What about…Naomi?”) Shavuot begins Sunday...

Bryan and I have a couple of new tasks to take on this week, after our latest pre-marital counseling sessions...