Charity

Congratulations, you’ve finished your taxes for the year! You’ve filled out your paperwork and now you’re just waiting (wishing?) for that big tax refund you’re going to get! But how are you going to spend it? Even if you’re not expecting a refund from the IRS, if you had some...

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Passover

Every year around this time things start to look a bit different. The days get longer, the sun gets a bit stronger and everywhere you go you can experience the sights, sounds, and smells of spring. Spring is a time of rebirth. This year we had one of the coldest...

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Purim

When Adar enters, joy increases Talmud Bavli Ta’anit 29a At the end of February, we enter into a time of celebration and rejoicing as we dress up and observe the holiday of Purim. Purim is a holiday that commemorates reversals of fortunes. We celebrate that we survived another attempt to...

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. At the end of this month, we will begin celebrating the holiday of Chanukah. Known as The Festival of Lights, the Chanukah story retells the Maccabees rebellion during the time of the Greek Empire. If we look back at history at the...

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Thanksgiving

This holiday is a tricky one. During any other celebration, the mere date and time dictate what the holiday is. Rosh Hashanah is about the beginning of the year, Passover is about our peoples’ exodus from Egypt. Even Yom Kippur, we are given a way to navigate the commandment to...

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Gratitude

Ahhhhhhh. We can finally take a deep breath. The holidays are behind us. We came through them a little wiser, a little more introspective (and maybe a little heavier). In the rush of activity with the holidays, with all of the havoc it played on our schedules, we might not...

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