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What I Hear

What I hear when you say you’ll pray for me: First, I hear that what you mean to say is, “I’m sorry this is happening to you.” Thank you. I appreciate the sympathy. It’s nice to know people care. But then I also hear one of the following: In other words, when you say you’ll […]

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Tu B’Shvat

Jewish holidays / Judith Seid / January 9, 2016 / Jewish ecology holiday, Jewish nature holiday, Jewish tax date, new year of the trees, tu b'shvat, Tu B’Shvat seder

We’re coming up to Tu B’Shvat, a holiday that exemplifies why Jewish tradition needs to change and adapt in order to survive. Tu B’Shvat. That’s that big nothing of a holiday that some Jews are trying to bring back with some hocus-pocus seder ritual from the middle age, right? You eat dates and figs

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Say the “eh”

Yiddish Pronunciation / Judith Seid / August 25, 2015 / blintzeh, Jewish pronunciation, noodgeh, Yiddish eh, Yiddish pronunciation

No, not the Canadian “eh?” – the Yiddish “eh.” The one that belongs at the end of words like blintzeh and noodgeh. In English, we think that if something ends in “es” for a plural, it is because the last letter of the word is one of those consonants that it’s just to hard to

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