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Eight Nights, Redefined

For some children, finding out that the tooth fairy isn't real is the final straw.

8 Blogs of Hanukkah: Why did Antiochus' army ruin all the oil in the Jerusalem Temple?

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

8 Blogs for 8 Nights of Hanukkah Blog #1: Oil and the Secret of the Jew

Following EPA Finding, Reform Movement Calls for Action on Crucial Day in Climate Fight

December 7, 2009

Saperstein: "New, equitable, and comprehensive national and international policies are needed to truly tackle the environmental, economic, and public health challenge of climate change."

On November 5, a middle-aged woman walked up to her polling place in Rochester, New York. She entered the voting booth, and filled out her ballot indicating her preferred candidate. She dropped her completed ballot into the ballot box and went home.

Good Morning Baltimore...Hebrew Day School

Fellow RAC Legislative Assistant Jonathan Backer and I had a great morning today visiting The Day School at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and talking with their seventh and e

Galilee Diary: Repairing the World

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

Parents blessing their children at a Shabbat dinner program knows as Challah in the ‘Chood,

How to Engage Your Members Beyond the Synagogue's Walls

Rabbi Joel Simon

Learn how one congregation with geographically dispersed members maximized its reach in a world with increasing competition for people’s time and energy.

The Big Debate: Applesauce vs. Sour Cream

Laurence Kaufman and Rabbi Phyllis Sommer

The Case for Applesauce
by Laurence Kaufman

Musical Settings: Adon Olam

When I was a student at the Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago, Illinois, I had a Hebrew teacher who suggested that every night before we went to sleep, it would be meaningful to recite the last verse of Adon Olam. As an impressionable and obedient fourth grader, I took to heart her suggestion and...

In Toledo, Asleep in the Room of the Moneylenders

Ilana DeBare

We took advantage of our empty nest status to take a week-long trip to Spain this month, the first time in almost 20 years that we could travel at a time when schools weren’t on vacation.