Soup Can Still Cure the Winter Blahs
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A pot of soup or stew simmering on the stove can make the
whole house feel cozy on a cold winter day, which explains why January is
National Soup Month.
In 1765, a French entrepreneur named Boulanger opened the first
modern restaurant.
Tu B’Shevat Comes Early this Year, the Time to Say “Thank You” to the Trees
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We need trees. They take our carbon dioxide and give us back fresh
oxygen to breathe. The tree is a symbol of the continuity of life. Many people
plant a tree to celebrate a new life or to commemorate one that has passed. We
talked about our
Sometimes A Woman Just Needs a Bicycle
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Gloria Steinem once said that “A woman
needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Well, sometimes a woman just needs a
bicycle. According to the legendary Susan B. Anthony, the bicycle did more
to emancipate women than “anything else in the
Stronger Together
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Tu B'Shevat
In the summer of 1964, the disappearance and murder of
three young civil rights activists in rural Mississippi shocked the country.
The boys were volunteers with the Freedom Summer Project. One was James Chaney,
a local African-American from
Interview on A Bear for Bimi / written by Jane Breskin Zalben:
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What Can I Do to Help?
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“Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.”
No other words so perfectly capture the essence of tikkun olam (repair of the world) as those written by the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. He was reflecting on a seminal moment in the fight for civil rights that took place in 1965, when he joined Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of others as they marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
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Jewish Values
Tzedek, tzedek tirdof.
The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought the biblical phrase back into modern parlance, but the pursuit of justice has always been fundamental to what it means to be Jewish. Justice is a work in progress that we should never assume is complete. ...
How Good It Is for a Community to Come Together
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We repeat the words of Psalm 133 every time we sing Hinei Ma Tov . The oft-quoted psalm says that when all God's children live together in harmony, it will be "like precious oil poured on the head." Civil Rights leaders have often