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Earlier this year, an Israeli friend-- a tour guide--shared a surprising statistic about tourism in the Holy Land: of the nearly four million people who visit Israeli each year, only twenty-five percent are Jewish.

This number has dwindled in recent years, and it's continuing to fall.

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Hardly a day goes by that I don't hear these words: "Rabbi, I'm really not that religious." Perhaps you have thought or spoken these words yourself.

It speaks to the fact that for centuries, we have...Read more...

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There is a misconception among many Jewish families that the most authentic Passover Seders are those which follow the ancient text of the Haggadah line by line, word by word.

And that somehow, when we omit the "boring parts" or try to make the Passover Seders more fun, we are somehow cutting corners or "cheating."

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Many...Read more...