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November 2008 (7)
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26: Going on Indefinite Hiatus (2)
11: “For Zion’s Sake, I Will Not Remain Silent”: Speaking Out for Israel (5)
11: Pogrom (0)
10: Judaism and Depression (3)
09: Audio: Three Movements, One Future: Challenges Facing American Jews (0)
09: Wishing a Fond Farewell to Shimshonit (0)
02: Tishri Reflections (0)

October 2008 (7)
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29: Cheshvan: Filling the Treasure Chest (0)
26: Introducing Our Newest Contributor Marinell James (6)
26: Absolute Truth (2)
23: Video: Rabbi Wolpe on Why Faith Matters (2)
18: How Time Flies - One Year of JewsByChoice.org! (1)
16: The Arba’ah Minim: or, the four types of Jews (1)
06: New Holiday Page - Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah (4)

September 2008 (21)
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28: Shana Tova from the Contributors and Friends at JBC.ORG (0)
26: Audio: Rabbi Sharon Brous On the Days of Awe (0)
24: Sincere Supplication (1)
23: Yom Kippur - A New Page in the Jewish Living Section of the JBC.org Site (1)
23: Video: Choose Life: Holy Day Conversations (0)
22: The Outreach Judaism Website: Or, Distinguishing Judaism and Christian Theology (11)
21: Audio: Mussar & Everyday Holiness (0)
19: Binding But Not From God? (4)
19: Prostrating Prayer (7)
16: Audio: Halacha and Science: Sympathies and Strategies (0)
14: Some Thoughts on Kashrut, Orthodox-style (19)
11: Why I Am a Reform Jew (7)
11: Elul Time (1)
09: Video: New BBC Historical Drama Puts God on Trial at Auschwitz (2)
08: Thorny Question I: Why not ask a partner to convert? (6)
04: The Halacha of Eating Out - Rabbi Creditor’s Thoughts (2)
04: To Booth or not to Booth, that is the Question….. (3)
04: Soul Scrubbing (3)
03: Rosh Hashana - A New Addition to the Holiday Pages at JBC.org (3)
03: Jewish Education and My Thoughts on Pulling the Plug - Partially (6)
02: An Audio Introduction To Mordecai M. Kaplan & The Reconstructionist Movement (8)

August 2008 (17)
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30: Audio: Honoring the Body “Taharah” (1)
29: Trader Joe’s: Your Partners in Kashrut (3)
27: A couple more ways to connect to rituals… (4)
27: Beit Shemesh and Efrat: A Tale of Two Cities (2)
26: Saying Goodbye to Chaviva & Welcoming Karen on Board!!! (5)
25: Finding a Home in Judaism (13)
21: The Social Temple? (10)
20: Judaism and the Interfaith Family (16)
20: Breaking The Orthodox Monopoly In Israel (1)
14: Video: 3 Part BBC Documentary Series – Jews (Updated) (6)
11: Law of Return and the Convert (14)
07: If You Are In LA This Weekend & Don’t Have Plans – Join Us For The First Ever Shabbat Connections Picnic At Temple Beth Am (2)
06: iObserve – Brachot for your iPhone (7)
05: Kashrut and Shabbat: An Informal Guide to Taking on the Biggies, Step By Step (11)
05: Another Proposed Solution for Materialism in the American Jewish Community (10)
04: A Day at Jewish Camp, Fun Even for Grownups! (2)
04: New/Re-Launched Discussions Forum (0)

July 2008 (25)
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30: Praying as a Jew (8)
29: On Belief in the Jewish God: Shimshonit’s Take (16)
29: Yet Another Post on Men in Non-Orthodox Judaism: A Successful Solution? (15)
29: To Talit? Revisited. (5)
27: Asking a Conservative Rabbi About Tallit Katan (15)
23: Professor Jonathan Sarna’s New Book (5)
23: Reminder - Please Update Your JewsByChoice.org Feed Subscriptions! We have a new RSS address! (2)
22: Rabbis Explain Why People Become Orthodox (7)
22: Reasons Why I Made Aliyah (22)
21: The Art of Leading Services (4)
18: A Mournful Time (3)
17: Ami’s future, G-d willing (a post by Mark) (24)
16: Zionism as a Replacement for Materialism (9)
16: Mamaloshen (The Mother Tongue) and Me (1)
15: Video on the Life and Work of Simon Wiesenthal - I Have Never Forgotten You (0)
15: Taking It All Personally (6)
14: New Documentary on Converts (7)
12: 150 Ugandans and Kenyans To Convert to Judaism Later This Week (0)
11: Gershom Gorenberg on the Israeli Conversion Crisis (5)
10: Holding on to Time (0)
09: Video: Jew and Jewer Episode One – Speaking Hebrew (8)
09: Rabbi Stewart Weiss and the Rav’s Take on Conversion (9)
07: Big Tent Activism in Israel (2)
04: Torah Study (2)
02: Israelis in Captivity (2)

June 2008 (33)
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30: My First Camp Shabbat (9)
29: The (non-)Future of Yiddish (7)
29: Zoo Torah and Conversations with My Kids about G-d and Science (7)
25: A Jew with Tattoos (a post by Mark) (34)
24: El Paso Holocaust Museum (3)
24: Shabbat Kit To Go…and Other Cool Stuff (0)
24: Video: Darby Leigh On Being Deaf & A Rabbi (0)
23: More on Jews and Gender! (12)
23: Special Needs and the Jewish Community (5)
20: E-Source for all things Los Angeles and Jewish (1)
19: In Atlanta - African Americans Are Digging Judaism (6)
18: The Lost Leaders in Contemporary Orthodoxy (5)
18: Vblog: Book Review - How To Keep Kosher (1)
18: Jewgenics, Part II: Genes, Identity, History — and a compelling book on the subject (1)
17: Sh’lach L’cha: Punishment and Reminders (3)
16: Introducing Mark & Cinthya Nunez Our Two Newest JBC.org Contributors (8)
16: Mazal Tov, To Yair and His Family On The Arrival Of Their Latest Addition – A Baby Girl! (10)
13: Egalitarianism Is a Two-Way Street - Avi Does Shabbat! (9)
13: Behalotkha 5768 - Five Years of Life as a Jew (4)
12: Thank You For Shopping At JBC.org (0)
12: I Made It Through the Rain….No! Through An All Nighter: Tamara Recounts Shavuot (1)
12: Who Says The Orthodox Aren’t a Halachickly Diverse and Creative Bunch - Get Your Fresh Giraffe Milk Here!!! (1)
10: New Issue of RJ Magazine - Why Religion Matters (2)
06: Audio: The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel (1)
05: Kashrut Observance By Denomination (14)
05: אמת and Respect (5)
05: Bayit Shlishi: The Challenge of the Third Temple (20)
04: Video: Asking The Rabbi About Jewish Law CJLS Style (0)
04: Updated: Our New Poll: How Do You Define Judaism? (4)
03: A light in the darkness (7)
03: Why I didn’t go to the AIPAC conference (0)
02: Shavuot 5768 Is Just Around The Corner – Are You Ready? (1)
01: What’s Up With Reform Judaism & Where is it Headed? (2)

May 2008 (30)
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30: Kosher on the Go Revisited (2)
30: We Are Now Gravatar Enabled (1)
29: The Conversion Dilemma Saga Continues… (13)
27: "Na Nachs" and Living a Joyful Judaism (5)
27: More Conversion Meshuganas - Deaf Need NOT Apply! (17)
27: A new Reform Judaism site. (1)
26: Israel at Sixty & the Importance of Religious Pluralism (3)
25: Population concerns and the Jew (1)
22: New Logo! New Layout! New Glitches! (7)
22: Happy Lag B’omer! (4)
22: Conversion Standards (2)
19: Not Quite a Cop-Out: Some of my Favorite Jewish Stops on the Web (3)
19: RabbiPod On The Israeli Conversion Crisis (1)
15: Video: Does God Exist - A debate between Rabbi David Wolpe and Sam Harris (10)
14: Don’t Worry. Be Israeli! (10)
14: Video: Jerusalem "Within These Walls" (0)
13: The Bones of Our Past (4)
13: Rabbinic Authority and the Convert (4)
11: The Spiritual Marketplace (4)
10: First Abayudaya Ugandan to Become a Rabbi (2)
10: The Center for Online Judaic Studies - 25 FREE sites Launched to Celebrate Israel’s 60th (0)
07: There are many styles of frumness. (1)
07: She’s a convert. She’s a woman . She’s African American, and she will be a rabbi… (4)
06: Brief thoughts on קדושים (5)
05: Reform Jews open Israel’s first state-funded non-Orthodox synagogue (9)
04: The Un-Jewing of Orthodox Converts in Israel (25)
04: Commemoration (5)
02: Books! Books! Books! We’ve Got Books! (4)
02: Remember to Remember (1)
01: The Diaspora’s Diaspora, and Earning the Burn: Lessons in the Necessity of Pacing Yourself (6)

April 2008 (28)
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30: FYI: Our Very Own ChaviJo Is “Almost Famous”! (5)
26: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Israel’s 60th anniversary: the CD (1)
26: You Shall be Holy — To the Best of Your Ability (6)
24: Pesach, in Chavi’s World (0)
24: Vid: Cleaning Your Inner Chametz With Rabbi Simon Jacobson (0)
22: Tied Up In Knots (1)
17: Passover Questions? Need to Know how to Clean? Need a Resource? Keep Reading! (0)
17: Audio: Chancellor Arnold Eisen Discusses Passover & the Next Generation (0)
16: I’ll Be Eating Kitniyot This Year & I’m Glad!!! (9)
15: Mitzvah, Minhag, the Difference, and Jewish Unity (0)
15: My Seder and Me (0)
15: Embracing Our Inner Reverend Wright (0)
14: The "List" (2)
14: Abuse: Two Jewish responses (2)
12: Jew vs. Jew and the Ethics of Speech (5)
11: We ‘Really’ Want Your Feedback - So Please Take a Minute (10)
11: Don’t Forget About Jewish Summer Camp (It’s Sooner Than You Think) (4)
10: The Destruction of Jewish Identity is Bad for the Jews (13)
08: What Israel and the Diaspora need… (6)
08: The Loss of a Real Mensch, and a Final Lesson (7)
08: Yet Another News Story On the New Reform Siddur (4)
07: Why God Sent the Jews to Buddhism (1)
07: The Rabbi and the Rav: a reponse (3)
04: Reb Zalman on Freeing Your Seder (0)
04: Pesach is coming! Some seder planning ideas… (10)
02: Daily Tehillim (2)
02: Audio: Rabbi David Cooper on G-D Being a Verb! (0)
01: A Word to Christian Readers (12)

March 2008 (32)
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31: Get Your Free Passover Haggadot (4)
31: An Unorthodox Orthodox Jew (10)
29: Truth Holders v. Truth Seekers (10)
27: Three Inspiring Gerim: Rabbi Asher Wade, Gavriel Sanders, and Yisrael Campbell (16)
27: Let’s Go Kosher!!! Let’s Go Primal!!! (2)
25: An Orthodox Rabbi Calls It As He See’s It & He See’s It The Way I do! (6)
24: Rabbi Dr. Raymond Scheindlin: One of my Favorite Teachers (3)
24: LGBT Synagogues (6)
24: An International Portal — For All Things Jewish! (1)
23: Jews By Choice, According to Schvach (2)
23: Don’t Forget To Checkout Our Discussion Forum! (1)
23: Dude! Where’s My Seder? (3)
20: J-Quote: Mordecai Kaplan on "The Implications of Believing in G-D" (2)
19: Adopting a New Religion, Keeping Old Friends (7)
18: Finding the Kavanah (3)
17: Reb Zalman On Judaism As A Tree And Modernity As The Outer Ring - What Does it Mean As a JBC? (3)
17: An In-the-News Potpourri (9)
14: שבת זכור - Shabbat of Remembrance, Amalek, and Why it’s Not What You Think (6)
14: A Banned Book That Brings a Vanished World to Life (2)
13: Rabbi Ginsburg’s “Ask The Rabbi # 12” is up! (0)
13: The Polish Esther (0)
11: Offensive Comments (do not equal) Jokes (3)
10: Learning About The Jewish Scribal Arts (4)
10: Go on, Prove it. (8)
09: Return to the Jewish Mission (4)
07: Welcome to the Hunted (3)
07: Lots and Groggers (5)
06: Liar, Liar, Robe on Fire (0)
06: Welcoming Reform Jews Into Israel! (0)
05: On Sgulot (1)
03: Sometimes Less is More: Rabbi Arthur Green on Observance (10)
02: Keep Not Silent (2)

February 2008 (39)
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29: Okay So The Discussion Forum Is Back! (2)
29: Let’s Welcome Our Newest Contributor Rachel-Esther (5)
29: Israel-US conversion authority crisis resolved? (6)
28: Video: The Israeli Masorti Movement at 30 (2)
28: {Jewish} Music and Prayer (9)
27: Jewish Learning Comes in the Most Unexpected Ways Sometimes (1)
26: Torah, Commentaries, and Gender (0)
25: The Volatile Religious Marketplace in the U.S. (5)
25: So, What, Exactly, is a “Religious” Jew? (1)
24: Feminism and Orthodoxy: Clash or Compatibility? (5)
23: Video: Jewish Identity Online - A Panel Discussion (1)
23: When Jews Become the Cool Kids (5)
22: Some Pre-Shabbos JBC.Org News! (2)
22: The J-Post on “Building a Shared Jewish Culture” (5)
21: Kashrut, Animal Cruelty, and Vegetarianism (10)
21: So What The Heck Is "Kosher Style" Anyways? (10)
20: I’m a Conservative Jew! Oy, I Can Actually Say That Now!!! (8)
20: Help for a Friend Who’s Leaving the Tent (10)
19: Lonely Man of Faith and Community (2)
18: An Orthodox Conversion Story: The Plunge and Journey’s End (Part III) (5)
16: An Orthodox Conversion Story: The Decision (Part II) (0)
15: About a ring (1)
15: Audio: No More Taking Sides (Israel/Palestine) (9)
15: Australian Jews Do Us Proud (5)
14: The Masorti Movement Hopes to Expand Israel’s Religious Horizon (7)
13: Video: The Vanishing American Jew - Circa 1997 (3)
13: “We are here because we institutionalized creativity.” (2)
12: Convert Instantly With Jewish Conversion Spray (9)
12: FYI: Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning Podcast’s (4)
12: An Orthodox Conversion Story: The Yearning (Part I) (8)
11: Introducing Our Newest Contributor - Shimshonit (0)
10: Reflections on Shacharit #3: Thanking G-d for Almost Everything Else… (1)
08: FYI: The Reconstructionist Journal Is Available Online (0)
06: T’Rumah — תרומה (5)
04: Hekshered Beer that Actually Tastes Good? Moshiach, Moshiach, Moshiach! (17)
04: Video - A Sacred Duty (1)
03: Heschel and Faith (7)
02: Observing Observance: A Surprising Reality Check (5)
01: Our Very Own David Gottlieb Becomes a Zeekster! (1)

January 2008 (32)
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31: Rabbi Ginsburg’s Ask The Rabbi # 11 - Shabbat, Mamzer, Conversion, Slaves and Fish (2)
30: Being Jewish is Expensive. Exhibit A: My Tefillin (7)
30: Let’s Welcome Two New Contributors to JBC.org (10)
28: Avi’s Third Bris…OH MY! (10)
27: Audio: BBC Radio Does a Whole lot of Jewish (1)
27: Haveil Havalim #151- The P.S.D. Edition - Check it out (0)
27: Audio: Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir (0)
24: Non-Orthodox News Round Up - The Israeli Edition (10)
24: Audio: Heschel and Martin Luther King - Better late Than Never (0)
23: Video: The Future of American Judaism - Jonathan Sarna (7)
20: Tu b’Shevat - The New Year of the Trees (9)
20: Haveil Havalim # 150 Is Now Online & We Be In It! (1)
18: Beshalach and the Path of Conversion (3)
18: Guest Post: Some Thoughts on Emet Ve’Emunah From a Non-Jew (7)
15: Yet Another Jewish Magazine, Brought to You by Your’s Truly (2)
15: Audio: A Crash Course In Jewish World History (6)
14: Reflections on Shacharit #2: Thanking G-d for Human Life (2)
14: New Online Resource for Exploring Ancient Texts (1)
13: We Bid a Fond Farewell to Yankel Kvetch (2)
12: How Do You "Do" Shabbat? (17)
11: Rabbi David Hartman (Orthodox) Launches Program To Begin Ordaining Women (8)
10: G-d Hates Feygeles - That’s The Real Meaning of Hanukkah? (14)
09: Moshiach, the Rebbe, and Conversion in Israel (9)
09: This Months Ask Rabbi Ginsburg Video On: Tzineus (Jewish Modesty) Traditions and Laws (0)
08: Reform Jews called back to the Sabbath - Updated (10)
06: This Wednesday PBS Begins Airing a Three Part Series On - The Jewish Americans (6)
04: Va’Eira: Did Pharaoh get a bum deal? (0)
04: Just a quick post to point out the obvious - Updated! (0)
04: Jerusalem doesn’t make sense (2)
02: Reflections on Shacharit #1: Shlepping Yourself Out of Bed. (10)
02: Reflections on the Morning Prayers (Shacharit): Introduction (7)
01: Zeek Looks at Independent Minyanim - Past & Present (2)

December 2007 (19)
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31: In the News: "Men Only" Reformers & Conservative Judaism Should Equal "Jewish Living" (0)
29: Two Jewish Magazines, One New…One a Classic (3)
28: Let’s Talk about Kippot With Michele Holtz & Cantor Leigh Korn (0)
27: Me and Christmas (7)
27: A Faithful Jewish Agnostic Speaks Her Truth (0)
24: Jewish (Not So Nice) Views of Jesus & Christmas - Cuz it’s His Special Day Tomorrow (24)
24: Audio: ABC Radio Talks Hasidic Tales (0)
23: To Talit…Or Not to Talit…That is the Question (3)
23: If you Asketh The Rabbi, He shall Telleth You (3)
22: Why I’m (Still) Not An Orthodox Jew (4)
14: Video: Ask The Rabbi Dec 9, 2007 (0)
10: A Reader’s Question On Clothing Related Mitzvot (21)
08: On The Prophets and Intermarriage (1)
05: When Worlds Collide: Transitioning (12)
05: Chanukah Reflections On Doing Jewish In Colorado (2)
05: Two New Reform Studies Highlight Commitments & Disconnects Within the Movement (3)
04: To Light! (1)
03: Hanukkah, Light, and Adaptation (1)
02: Judaism without Synagogues (7)

November 2007 (21)
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29: I Just Want to Be an Observant Jew - Updated (52)
28: If I forget you, O Jerusalem… (12)
28: Living Within Two Worlds (7)
27: My Little Shul Part Three: The Baal Chesed (3)
27: Riddle me this, Kosher me that. (14)
22: Reconstructing Thanksgiving (5)
20: The Beinoni: A Central Concept in Tanya (4)
18: The Best Darn Kabbalah Documentary I’ve Ever Seen! (7)
14: ‘Tis the Season! (9)
13: A Couple Of Teffilin Videos (2)
12: Tefillin - The Breakfast of Champions (26)
12: Who Is a Jew: Book Review & Rant! (0)
12: New(ish) Blogger (4)
10: The Synagogue that Wasn’t. (21)
09: Proselytizing? Promoting? Oy vey. (4)
07: Orthodox vs Orthodox on the Issue of Conversion (5)
05: Kosher Evangelism & Who is a Jew? (8)
04: “Jewgenics”: Jewish genes, Jewish values and Jewish mortality (1)
02: Wow! One Month Of JewsByChoice.Org (2)
01: No Pain, No Gain: Becoming a Jew and Personal Loss (19)
01: Ethics In Kashrut & The Greening of Sacred Space (12)

October 2007 (25)
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30: My Little Shul – Part 2 (5)
30: Reflections on Joining The Tribe (11)
29: Reform Magazine - The Outreach Revolution (7)
28: Jewish Reading (4)
26: The Community that said "NO" to Converts. (6)
25: Jewish Ritual on the Rise in America (11)
25: The Book of Ruth: Why Converts are Essential to Judaism (6)
24: Yankel’s Book Club (6)
21: Why I Am Not a Reform Jew - Even if I Get the Magazine… (34)
21: My Little Shul - Part 1 (26)
21: The Hidden Jews by Choice of Mizoram India (6)
20: Lekh L’kha! — Some Torah Comments from Chavi, the Amateur Torah Scholar (13)
19: Shabbat Shalom & Check out the New Digs! (2)
19: Rabbi Nina Mizrahi on Abraham and Spiritual Intelligence (6)
17: Unravelling the Scrolls (3)
15: Another Woman’s Perspective… (2)
14: How I Stopped Being a Jew for 49 Minutes this Shabbos (12)
12: Shabbat Shalom!!! (1)
11: What’s in a Name? … for a Jew. (25)
11: Big Tent Judaism - There’s Room For everyone! (3)
10: Jews by Birth…by Choice…One thing We do Have in Common (1)
08: High Holiday Reflections - Tashlich (3)
06: Ani Yehudi - I am a Jew (8)
04: How I re-became a Jew (3)
03: How I Became a Jew (2)

September 2007 (2)
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