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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,”...

When 18Doors asked me to write a post for Tu B’Av, I have to admit, I had to do some research: Tu B’Av is not...

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...

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

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...

1115 Matzah ball soup. Brisket. Challah. Lox. Hamantashen. Apples and honey. Practically every Jewish holiday...

330 What holiday is not mentioned in the Torah or any other Jewish source until the 13th century and has...

(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...