Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: September 2007
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19 September 2007
The Succah of My Memories
Growing up in Montreal, Quebec, we had very cold days in our hut. Our succah was unique or at least I thought it was. The succah sat perched atop the little hill that sat in our backyard and was attached to the house. Our backyard sloped on three sides so that the [...]
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18 September 2007
Wait…what?
Growing up conservative yet attending a hard core Hebrew School three times a week, I learned a lot about Judaism, from Chaggim to Kashrut all the way to Tanach. I was fortunate to grow up in a predominately Jewish town where everyone was at least traditional and knew what they needed to do. [...]
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18 September 2007
Yeshiva Graduate Nominated As US Attorney General
President George Bush nominated Michael B. Mukasey on Monday to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
“Judge Mukasey is clear-eyed about the threat our nation faces,” Bush said. “He knows what it takes to fight this war effectively and he knows how to do it in a manner consistent with our laws and our Constitution,” [...]
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17 September 2007
Mikvah Tactics for the Nervous Bather
I have noticed in the last few years that more and more people seem to be going to the mikvah on the days before Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. While this is a longstanding tradition, densely populated areas sometimes lack the mikvah space to accommodate their High Holiday traffic. And while we certainly wouldn’t want [...]
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16 September 2007
Kinos Teshuva
The time between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (this week) is a time of intense prayer (tefilla) and repentance (teshuva).
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16 September 2007
Shakespeare and Yom Kippur
A few years ago my son, Moishe, and I, went to see Hamlet. The theater was out of doors in a hilly, tree filled, part of Wisconsin . The weather was crisp, the trees were just beginning to wear their fall colors, the sky was blue, and the play was magnificent. We went because [...]
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12 September 2007
Shana Tova
Dear Readers, Writers, Friends, Family and everyone else in the Jewneric extended family,
SHANA TOVA
HAVE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
Thank you for making these past few weeks a wonderful success and an engaging begining in what is sure to be a bright future.
We hope that you will return to us again after the new year (Saturday [...]
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12 September 2007
Rumors flying over Syria.
Last Thursday, Israeli aircraft violated Syrian airspace and did…something. No one seems quite sure what. Israel has been almost completely silent on the subject, only reluctantly admitting that the flight even occurred, and continuing to refuse to comment on what exactly happened.
To date, I have seen the following “reports” on what “actually” happened.
Damascus is claiming [...]
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10 September 2007
Shofar Sho Good
Who doesn’t enjoy the theme of “Beverly Hills Cop” played by shofar?
Clip from Late Night with Conan O’Brien 2005
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9 September 2007
Believe it… OR ELSE
Part of my job working for a Jewish radio network involves answering the phones during regular office hours. It is so rare to feel that maybe you reached someone from the closed-off sections of Brooklyn that I feel the need to share an experience.
About two weeks ago, one of the programs featured a guest, Rabbi [...]