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Forgiveness
My friend Phil Setnik started a really good idea over on Google+: community-specific requests for forgiveness. It wouldn’t make sense for me to make some kind of blanket “please forgive me” message...
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My Girlfriend “Betty”
I tend to play a little fast and loose when it comes to rules. I don’t exactly break them (at least, not usually), but I do tend to see how far they’ll bend. How that translates to kashrut is that I’m...
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Swimming in the Kitchen
“A father is obligated to do the following for his son: to circumcise him, to redeem him if he is a first-born, to teach him Torah, to find him a wife, and to teach him a trade. Others say: teaching...
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*Pop* Goes The… Kosher Resturaunt?
Yeah, that’s Kosher wondered aloud on his twitter feed whether “this #kosher restaurant model would work in #NYC: #London Testing Pop-Up Restaurant for 2 Days in Dec: “ I wonder the same thing. I...
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Thanksgiving Seder
NOTE: This post was too fun NOT to share, both here and on The Edible Torah image courtesy of JoyOfKosher.com One of the things I’ve marveled at is how, once you start making Shabbat part of your...
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UnKosher: Microsoft Uses Bacon to Poach Employees
Microsoft is trying to steal good programmers away from Amazon and Google. No surprising news there. By tempting them with bacon. Whaaa fuuuh huhhh?!?! I am not making this up. I couldn’t. I’m not that...
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VIDEO: Kosher Symbol Blues
While on one level, this is just a cute little ditty, on another it hints at some of the confusing and frustrating moments many of us have when learning to live with the mitzvah of keeping kosher. Like...
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Welcome! !ברוכים הבאים Read Me First If You’re New Here!
photo credit: disparkys I wanted to take a minute and offer a hearty “Bruchim HaBa’im” – welcome – to any new readers who’ve wandered over here from the Cleveland Jewish News. An article that appeared...
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Failure to Communicate
I recently started a new job at a new company and once again I am the only Jew (observant or otherwise) on the block. Which means I have to (get to?) educate my manager and team about certain aspects...
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A Sweet Start
Introducing Torah (often beginning with the book of Vayikra/Leviticus) to small children by smearing a book or page (hopefully laminated) with honey and letting them lick it off, thus showing how...
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