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5780
Food Fight
Who's the Doctor?
The Torah of Eretz Yisrael
The "Mitzvah System"
Zooming to Minyan
Counting the Omer:
Parents with Bread
Fitting In
The Bedtime Shema
Jewish Superheroes
Eradicating the Essence of Evil
Immunity in the Community
Reproof in the Restaurant
Next Year in Jerusalem
Parshat Beshalach
Jewish Life
Food Fight
The Back of My Hand
Mr. Good-Man
Bacteria in the Cafeteria
Verses by Heart
G-d in the Workplace
Rise and Shine
Is This the End?
Name Calling
Safed, Tsfas and Zefat
Succot Assortment
Yom Kippur Assortment
5779
Placing Stones on Graves
What’s My Tribe?
Behind the Scenes of Happiness
Direction Needed
Earth-Shake
The “Star” of David
Food Fight
Affirmations
A Mother’s Mercy
The Marranos: Part 2 of 2
The Marranos: Part 1 of 2
Cheffing for Shavout
The Pious Word
Hair Ado
Pesach, Matzah and Maror: A Summary of Our Faith
CatSpeak
Spiritual Slumber
Fixed on Prayer
Homecoming?
Living in the Land
Past Your Prime
Desirable Death
In Search of Eden
Ponytails for Men
Yeshiva
L’Chaim – To Life!
Pertinent Prayer
Distant Love
Revolt or Renaissance
Chanuka for Women
Self-centered Stumbling Stone
Patriarchs and Matriarchs
Why is there an Oral Torah?
What is the Oral Torah?
Spiritual Symphony
5778
Speechless Sound
Do the Deceased Cease?
Spiritual Light
The Wolf and the Lamb
Passover Mezuzah
Airing Questions
Native American Revival
Judaism and Native Americans
Circular Reasoning
Euthanasia
A Tale of Two Communities
Feminine Beauty
The Holy Writ
Mother's Day
Water Quality
Wining, Dining, and Reclining
In or Out
Hurdles and Heights
Feminist Purim
Torah Time-out
Birthdays – Part 2: Jewish Customs
Birthdays – Part 1: Jewish Sources
Recycling
Maneuvering the Louvre
Why Get Married?
Fathers and Sons
Spiritual Healing
Noahide Laws
Wisdom Oil
In or Out?
Anti-Semitism
Soul’s Choice
Birthday Maze
Ancestral Merit
Sandek
5777
New Teshuva
Burial
Brit Milah Ceremony
Summer Camp
Food for Thought
Tammuz, Av and the Esoteric Influences: Part 3 of a Series
Tammuz, Av and the Zodiac: Part 2
Tammuz, Av and Divine Names
Deflecting Discord
Befit to Bless
"Shtenders" in Shanghai
The Crowns of Torah
Karet
Blessing over Bad
Prophets of Passover
Rest in Peace
Judaism or Judah
Facade of Fury
Moses, King of Cush
Matrilineal Descent
Three Steps
Tu b’Shevat Bounty
Scents and Sensibility
Life Before Death
Leniently Stringent
Yearly Usages
Converts' Soul-mate
Chanuka - Light and Darkness
On the Button
Forbidden Praise
Communicating with the Dead
Mitzvah Exemption
Miriam in the Wilderness
Miriam in Egypt
Joy on Succot
Repent While Alive
5776
U’netane Tokef
Miriam
“Non-Jewish” Jews
Perpetual Paradise Lost
Response to Ruin
Searching Soulmates
Born this Way
Rewarding Bad Behavior
Mysterious Ways
Stones of Sinai
The Land of Israel
Days or Deities
Shavuot - Milk and Honey
It’s All for the Best
Service after Sin
Departure Decorum
Pesach - Temple Service
Marriage Vows
Jewish Dress
Purim - Thorny Business
Hebrew and Humanity
Lion's Tale
The Red Heifer
Karaite Conundrum
Spiritual Green Card
Write the Get Name
The Chariot of Fire and the Burning Bush
Black and White in Judaism
Returning to Roots
Animal Talk
Be Fruitful and Multiply
Theater in Judaism
Comforting the Mourner
Chanukah - Lighting Left
Chanukah - A Tale of Two Cities
Dreams
Multi-faceted Monotony
Juliet and Romeo
It's A Girl!
Troubled Times
The Circle Dance
Shade of Faith
Kippur Bow
5775
Tactical Teshuva
Prenuptial Prayer
Valuable Lesson
"Gemach" - Acts of Kindness
Destruction and the Fiery Lion
Under Oath
Re-Quest
Value of Torah
Shabbat Money
Second Date
What's in a Beard?
Sick Visit
Torah Wilderness
Torah Prayer
Rest in Peace
Return of the Priestly Breast Plate
Pesach
Rabbi Relations
Babies Faced
Purim - To Bow or Not to Bow
Reward of Punishment
C-section
Mezuza Meaning
Conversion Query
Thank the Lord
Don�t Say That
Depth and Breadth
Astonishing Blessing
Cain�s Fault
Hasmonean Victory?
Those Days, This Time
Facing Fear
Dishonesty
Perplexed in Prayer
Untimely Death
Accuracy of Oral Torah
Memory and Forgetting
A Beautiful Succa
Yom Kippur Blast
5774
Rosh Hashanah - Life in the Balance »
Step-Relations
The Soul
Shemita in the Diaspora
Of Gaza and Palestinians
Orphans� Joy
Shabbat Lunch and Learn
Which Way to Pray?
Rewarding Service
Friendly Foible
Tefillin to Go
Proof of G-d
On Sight in Tzefat
Graveside
The Bite of the Snake
Reconnecting with Old Friends
Matza Split
After-Waters
Divine Relationship
Spiritual Science
Poor and Purim
Lay Apparel
Women's Prayer
Shalom Zachor
Kosher Consulting
Snoopy Snooze
Together Alone
Rav Shach on Chasidism
Overlooking Others� Litter
Calculated Quip
Envious Acquaintance
Matter of Interest
Unsolicited Suspicion
Adam's Tongue
Silver Lining
Chanuka, Education & Inspiration
Matrimonial Misjudgment
Voting Validation
Cutting out Circumcision
A Word on a Worm
Personalizing Prayer
Is a J for J a Jew?
Reward and Punishment
5773
Two-Faced Teshuva
What's in a Name?
Torah Vacation
Shortcut-itis
Real Talk
Bedecked in Black
One World Under G-d
Name-Calling
Give It All You Got
No Nose Job
Ruth and Shavuot
Mount Sinai
Omer: Counting up to Shavuot
Worth to Come
Pesach Today
Shabbat Symphony
Jew-rusalem
The Perfect G-d
Parashat Zachor
The Call of Nature
Puzzled
Black is Beautiful
Jewish Times
True Torah
Lunar Liturgy Literacy
Esau Complex
Sins of Fathers and Sons
The Last Day of Chanuka
Chanuka - 7 Days or 8?
Worth to Come
Revolving Door
Soul Seeker
Opposing Helpmate
The Jewish Midnight
Rich Succah, Poor Succah
In the White
5772
Low on Steam
Earth-quaked
Summer Break
Complaint
Staff of Life
Lend a Hand
Saturday or Shabbat
Sing Along
For Heaven's Sake
Old Memories
Generously Wrong
Food for Thought
Take it with a Grain of Salt
Medium Rare?
Song of Songs
Red Wine
Search by Candlelight
Money Can�t Buy You Life
Race from the Start
Sidestepping Shul
Olives and Memory
Shul
I or
Shul
I Not
Hard Act to Follow
Unfit Tefillin
Conceded Conceit
Shabbat Games
Bad Jew
Wrongly Religious?
Swaying Out of Harm�s Way
Old Wardrobe
Chanuka Menorah
Healthy Outlook
Mercy Killing
Selective Education
Passing Through
Matrimonial Maneuvers
G-d-like
A Standing Question
Pushy Prayer
5771
Rosh Hashana Judgment
Old Ages
Circular Teshuva
Building with Tears
Old Friends
Geniza
Rate the Rabbi
Still Waters Run Deep
Judaism - No Passing Fad
The G-d in Life
Intent to Hear
Good Looks Go; Goodness Grows
Jealousy
Anti-Semitism
Seder Order
Removing Chametz
Month of Redemption
Positive Thinking
Doorway Dispute
Purim Feast
Buying Mitzvot
Elevated Prayer
Vegetarianism
An Old Tune
Benevolent Illness
Yetzer Dilemma
Yes, No Direction
Ma, No Theism?
Wispy Lisp
Greatly Humble
Torah on Tension
Should I Be Happy?
Living in Israel
Why Kosher
Chanukah Gelt
Wed in Doubt
Rabbi Incognito
Elokim
Rainbow
Sarah�s Plot
Da�at Torah
The First Jew
Rosh Hashana Resolutions
5770
Clothes of the Deceased
Out to Lunch
Joyful Mourning
Manipulating Nature
Mousetrap
Segregation Unity
Heretical Hope
All or Nothing
Jew Tunes
Circumventing Circumcision
Demonstration
Prayer Power
Future in the Torah
Jewish Cold Shoulder
Wheel of Fortune
Sing in the Blues
The Four Cups
Mezuza as Amulet
Off the Mark
Like Purim
Vivienne�s Visitation
Myriad Mitzvot
Kallah Accolade
Nomenclature
The Crowns of Torah
Sound Advice
To the Better End
Wailing Western Wall
Happily Married
Might or Light
Halo
A Life for a Life
based on a real-life Ohr Somayach �Ask� dialogue
Malady or Medicine
Missionwary
Playing with �Fire�
Eternal Eden
Milk and Honey
5769
Sharply Blunt
Path of Penitence
Guest Etiquette
Right the Wrong
Out of a Shell
Free Fall Back
Sabra Spirituality
Name for Life
Heed the Call
G-d�s Ways
Name Withheld
Vatik in Judaism
Life-lengthening Kaddish
Pesach, Matza and Maror
No Child�s Play
Here Comes the Sun
Dance, Dance, Dance
Puerile Purim
Shemita
Gold and Swords
Stranded?
The First Jew
Friend Request
Racism or Suspicion?
Philosophy vs. Prophecy
Jewish Self Defense
Money Talks
In the Light of the Slivery Moon
Shaken by a Handshake
Role Reversal
Drink before Davening
Ya Don�t Say!
High on Sinai
A Pointed Question
Chesed l�Avraham
The Fast of Gedalyah
5768
What a Blast
Kiruv Query
To Wed or not to Wed?
Vacation Validation
Why Wine?
Be Happy
Spiritual Anatomy
The Kuzari Principle
Title of Honor
A Look �C�
Begging the Question
Ups and Downs in Edinburgh
Haftara, Half-Torah?
Adam�s Apple
Mitzva Intention
What�s a Name In?
Devotional Divide
Incomplete Hallel
Fast of the Firstborns
Magen David
Giving to Those Who Have
Hoops on Studs
Who says Rashi�s Right?
Mark of Wisdom
Sound Advice
Valentine�s Day
Fasting
Subliminal Seven
Thanks for Every Son
Torah Blueprint
Animal Suffering
Rolling in Dough
New House on the Prairie
Jewish Name-Calling
Ko-sure
The Silent Treatment
Double-Yud
To Bee or not to Bee
Living In Israel
Clothes Minded Jews
5767
The Unbroken Chain
Games on Shabbat
The Torah of Moshe
Kosher Giraffe
Global Warming
The Covenant Land
Stir it Up � Tie it Down
Arranged Marriages
Pre-determined Free Will
Lucid Dreaming
Counting Your Blessings
Dow Jones Witness
A Dip in the Depths of Mikveh
Be Like Mike
Divided We Stand
Clean Mean Matzah Machine
Dat�s a Nisaname
Birthdays
The Meaning of Prophecy
Jewish Gibberish? Babble On!
The Evil �I�
Beauty is in the �I� of the Beheld
Immaculate Pregnancy
The Wrap on Tzitzit
Meeting the Family
Keeping it in the Family
The �Shin� Side Story
Mothers-in-Law Know Best
Me, Myself and I: Cloning People
Green Light on the Black Run
Resurrected Marriage
Chanuka Time
Is Classical Music in Harmony with Judaism?
Trial Trio
Truth Laundering
Sharing Torah, Tailing Lions
Lunar Liturgy
Remnants of Repentance
Occidental Orientation
Succot Sevens
Yom Kippur Yizkor
5766
Rosh Hashana Rebirth
Persistent Pentateuch Pinkie Pointing People
One-Upwomanship
Idol Bashing
Straightjacket of Stinginess
What is Holier?
Divine Draft Dodgers
Forgoing the Fiery Lion
Misplaced Spirituality
Finding Favor
Writing on the Wall
Sinagoga? Si Senor!
Sabotaged Sabbath
The Just Judge
Conversing Conversion
Cannabis-ing the Grassroots
Pesach
End of Days
Pharaoh Way From Home
Merry Wanna?
Intermarriage: A Jewish Obsession
From Germany to Jerusalem
Tu BShevat: Spreading Branches, Bearing Fruit
Garlic Gemach
Soul Survivor
The Courtship Court
Mourning for Grandma
In Fear and Love
Thank G-d Its Shabbat
Illuminating the Inner Lamed Vovnik
Matriarchs in Prayers
Calling Tarots Card
Free to be Me?
A Kiss on the Head
The Zodiac
Does G-d Have Free Will?
A Smash of a Smash
Pre-Creation
Significance of Succot Sacrifices
Pure Prayer on Yom Kippur
5765
Why No Hallel on Rosh Hashana?
Wishy Washing
Intermarriage
Mourning on the Mount
Judo-ism
Blessing in dSkies
Confused Canary
Holey Heart
Wedding Rings
Far Away Fudge
Revisiting Angels
Mitzvah Dreams
Her and Hers
The Healing Serpent
Igniting the Flame, Extinguishing the Fire
Freedom and Assimilation
Pesach
An Angle on Angels
Purim: Incensed or Incense
Jesus, Jr. and Disjoining the Bishop
Renewing 'Semicha'
Kippa at Work
Individuality
Evil Eye and Eye-Beads
Why Get Married?
Urim and Tumim
Resurrection
Free Will Post Sinai
Baby Maisehs
Marriage Customs
Instruments on Shabbat
Montage
Mountains, Salt and Apocrypha
The Environment
Dybuk - Part 2
Dybuk - Part 1
To Bow or Not To Bow?
Kiddush Hashem
Old Ages
The Lost Tribes - Will They Return?
At Home in the Succa
Who Did It?
Who's on First?
5764
The Lost Tribes Where Are They Today?
The Lost Jews The Ten Tribes
Ponytail
"Messianic Jew"
The True Soul Mate
Raising the Glass - L'Chaim
The Red String of Protection
Where was the Temple?
Heads Up
Wigs and Idolatry
Sleepless Shavuot in Shicago
A Ghost Story
Mezuza
The Temple Mount
Pesach Questions
A Question of Ridicule
Noahide Laws
Blessed by a Rabbi
Purim Costumes The Inside Story
Bargaining with Terrorists
Tattoos
Tu B’Shevat
Origin of the Torah
Ohr Somayach
A Friend in Need
Prayer Is Anyone Listening?
The Meaning of Kabbala
Wisdom Oil
Should we reject secular knowledge?
Dog Gone
Holy
Torah and 'Making a Living'
Torah Before Sinai
Hebron: Yesterday and Today
Euthanasia
Cremation
Burial
Succot
Yom Kippur
A Teshuva Story
5763
Rosh Hashana
Vegetarianism
In Pursuit of the Truth
Depression
Keeping It Under Your Hat
Soul-Mate
Love
Reincarnation
Passing on Merit
Exercise
Mental Retardation
Palm Reading
Dreams
A Rabbi
Pesach
Soul
Purim
Joy
Beauty
Cloning #3
Cloning #2
Cloning #1
Kaddish
Anger
Shabbat in Space
Anti-Semitism
Boycotts
Animal Suffering
Yahrzeit Candles - Lions
Prays with Praise
Which Light Comes First
Revenge for Simcha; Why Chanuka 8 Days
Public Bible; Kissing the Torah; Kaddish for Son
Jewish Missionary; Reincarnation
Non Observant Spouse; Cremation
Age of the World
Dinosaurs
Living in Israel
Good Jew?
Olam Haba; Is Mankind Evil
Simchat Torah
Yom Kippur
Rosh Hashana
5762
Synagogue fees
Life and Death
Danger
5759
Importance of the Mitzvot
5758
Sinai, Various Names
5757
Sinai, Proof it Happened
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