Jewish Holiday

Confronting The Oppression Of Our Hands: A Social Justice Reflection For Yom Kippur

Ari Hart | Posted 12.06.2011

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Ari Hart

The painful truth? Your hands, my hands and the hands of everyone else we know are tools of oppression. They directly and indirectly cause suffering in the lives of God's creation -- human, animal and more.

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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah: 8 Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters In Books (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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To help ring in Rosh Hashanah -- the Jewish New Year -- we've reflected on the Jewish literary canon. From Philip Roth to Michael Chabon, some of the ...

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How Passover Night Is Not So Different From All Other Nights

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 11.17.2011

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Susan Kaiser Greenland

Each year around the Passover holiday we pause, set aside all the to-ing and fro-ing for a moment, and rest.

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