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Tashlich is the practice of casting off transgressions at the beginning of Rosh Hashanah. Each bit of bread we throw into moving water symbolizes a quality or event or behavior we do not want to...
I was determined to become a Yankee, and fixed my gaze steadily to the North—Chicago was about as far north as I could imagine at first, but as I learned more about geography, I found out there was al
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” I need to remember this because I’ve just read the most unbelievable, non-apologetic...
I've actually never watched a hockey game, but I want Canada to win. I heard the cheers on the street a minute ago when Canada scored its second goal. I was just at the gym where, a line of...
It was with both sorrow and a sense of profound relief that I read the editorial in today's NY Times, an editorial that bears reprinting in full, due to its dead serious portrayal of how bad things...