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This page contains issues 1 to 307 inclusive and was last updated 18 March 2001
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313

Holy Vegetables

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312

Converts

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311

Dining Out
Why Can't We Be Friends?
Crying Wolf Over Spilt Milk

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310 A New Partner
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307 IBM
Wuzzy Jewish?
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306 What Became of Esther?
The Lost Scroll of Esther
Time for Genocide
Poppy Seed Purim
Mordechai´s Wife
Da'as Torah
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305 Worlds in Collision
Candle by Day
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304 Thou Shalt Have No Other What?
Why Pigs Are Worse
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303 Taking Stock
The Great Debate
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302 Brisk It Is
Kohanim
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301 True for You
Torah is Heavy, Man
Rabbi Ya'akov of Marvege
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300 Jewish Lite
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299 A Day at the Races
Who is a Jew?
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298 Go Jump in a Lake
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297 Ain't It The Truth
Colored Chanukah Candles
Keeping Faith
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296 Building Heaven & Earth
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295 You Voted for Who!
The Other Six Days
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294 Non-Kosher Animals
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293 Good Times
Foot Care
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292 Thoughtful Work
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291 O Jerusalem
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290 In Defense of Israel
Heavenly Humor
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289 First Jews in the US
Good G-d
The Bigger They Are ...
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288 Kipper and Kippur
Life in the Fast Vein
Falling in the Fall
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287 Circular Reasoning
Good News for Jews?
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286 With Lieberman and Justice for All
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285 Nile Denial
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284 TV For Dummies
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283 Yahoo!
The Rest Of Shabbat
Wedding Time
Final Edition of "Who Knows ...?"
Return Of Yiddle Riddle!
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282 Harry Potter
Direction Needed
Who Knows Etc.?
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281 Jews in July
Tzim-tzum
Who Knows 21?
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280 Astro Not?
Pop's Music
Who Knows 20?
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279 Addiction to Mitzvot
Who Knows 19?
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278 Jews at the Speed of Light
Graduated Observance
Who Knows 18?
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277 Six Six Six
How Much does a Pentecost?
Who Knows 17?
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276 Courage & Cowardice
Whoops!
Man From Ground
Who Knows 16?
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275 Nasdaq and the Zodiac
The Wall at the Wall
Mother Superior
Tattoo and Jewish Burial
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274 Meah Shearim
Guinness World Records -- The World's Youngest Rabbi
Who is a Bagel
Who Knows 15?
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273 Sea-ing Red
Four at the Fore
Drops of Wine
Baffle Wacs Hold Fib
Flour Power
Stocks and Buns
Echad Mi Yodaya (Who Knows One?) Challenge
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272 Coping with the Pope
More Smoking
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271 You Is A Jew
Mask Ask
Esther's Age
Will Purim Make Him Poor?
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270 Down in Smoke
Chi-Ki
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269 En-Graved Invitation
Doctor Do Little
"G-d on my Palm-Pilot"
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268 Honest-E
O What a Good Jew Am I
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267 Yes, Your Honor
Canopies Made From Can O' Peas
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266 Does Bob Equal Fred?
In G-d We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)
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265 Let's Be Frank
I Do Declare
Transfusion Confusion
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264 She Was a Day Trader
My Favorite Martin
Colors
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263 Jewspeak
Ben Bag Bag
Common Error
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262 Mission Control
Kosher Costs
Leftover Turkey
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261 Hip! Hip! Phooey!
Dulberg Update
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260 Words From The Heart
Going Up?
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259 Y2K Day
Food Fight
Sea Burial
Peace
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258 Branches of Light
Shades of Light
A Stitch in Time
Old Menorahs Never Die
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257 What the Elephants?
Who Commanded it?
I Had a Little Dreidle?
Chanu-kah
Exercise
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256 Unkosher Kritters
Traffic Theology
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255 No No Nostradamus
Talking Turkey
Testing, Testing
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254 G-d’s Little Joke
Frum, Ain't It?
Bad Mouth
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253 The Plight Of The Agunah And A Summary Of Possible Solutions
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252 Selling Futures
Barak & Mubarak
The Big Lie
Fingers Crossed
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251 Goodyear
Here Comes Baby!
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250 Succot Significance
Myrtle Dealer
Close Shave
Lefty Leaves
Holiday Wrapping
Why Do Animals Suffer
Succah in the Sun
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249 Blast It!
Hail To The Chief
National Holiday
Holy Day In Sourbay
Better Not Red
Israel Prophets
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248 Corporate Heads
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247 Eclipse
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246 In The Flesh Again
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245 Sabbath Police
Helping in Kosovo
Preying Plants
Standing Up For Downs
Pure Confusion
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244 KotelKam
THANKS!
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243 Mezuzah Needlepoint
Locust Focus
The House that Ruth Built
Dog Gone
Favorite Jewish Wine
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242 From Mars to Jerusalem
Bosnia Conversion
Write on Moses
Grave Issue
I Love Spam®
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241 NASDAQ - Kosher Snack
Fetal Oinker
Colored Eggs
Freezing Frosty February Flowers
Burial Rite Direction
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240 Espousing Religion
Was Korach Revolting?
Chicken Shrimp
Water from the Rock
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239 Judge Knot
Too Far Side
Private Nurse
Butter Fat
Cremation
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238 Jurassic Judaism
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237 The Mitzvah System
Right Shouldering
All Nighter
Chosen Last
Clean Torah
Two Trop Tune
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236 Food Fight
About Face
Kaddish: Eleven or Twelve?
Judging Others
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235 Thou Shalt Love
My Peggy
Going through the Motions
Memorial Flames
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234 Looking Down our Noses at Moses
Interference
It Ain't Kosher!
Beth Jacob
Sweet Land of Lactose Bee
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233 Anorexia
Porky Chews His Cud
Mishna, Talmud and Kabbalah
Two For Three
Mr Good-Man
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232 Kosher for Passover Roommate
Seek and Destroy
Middle Riddle
What Four?
Mystical Waves
Brewer's Yeast
Order A Plate
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231 A Slave Nation
Sephardi Sources
Assisted Suicide Law
Who's Blessing Whom?
Angelic Names
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230 Skip the Temple, Pass The Bar
Going Back
Bad Samaritans
If I Were A Rich Man
Milk-Sop
Snake Speak
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229 To Tell the Truth
A Lot of Salt
How to Help
Hand Wave
Falling Leaves
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228 Stiff Price
Stamp it Out
Megillah Marriage
No Praise on Purim
Letter Perfect
Take a Bow
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227 2000 Worries
Friendly Family
Why in the World is There a World?
Careful Dresser
Say Cheese!
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226 Who Am I?
Elul
The World's Humblest Man
G Dash D in the WC
Mister Mussar
Two's a Crowd
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225 Soul Food The Jewish Dietary Laws
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224 Who's on First?
The First Steps
Prince of Israel
Do Chickens Have Lungs?
Noons
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223 Diet Kosher
Gold Star
Eden For Yidden
Burying and Swearing
Three Times Dry
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222 Grave Gravel
Shaky Salute
Only Sixteen
Appraising Praise
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221 I Am What I Am
Memory Candle
Cover-Up
David's Mother
More Than Skin Deep
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220 All Tribes Created Equal
Ohr-Dessa
Accounting for the Prophets
Three Parts of Soul
Pan Handling
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219 Food Fight
Yahoo!
Stolen Charity
The Place
Where's Page One?
True Lie
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218 Your First Degree
Straight Answer
Where in Blazes
Glowing Report
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Roast Beef
Hasmonean Kings
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217 Local Operation
Does the End Justify the Means?
One Small Step
R.I.P.
D.E. Phone Home
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216 Letting Go
Holes In One
What's My Sign
Kiss of Honor
Date Base
Why Esav Lost His Head
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215 Lighten Up
Make Me An Ofir
Luz-ers are Winners
Jacob's Right
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214 Hard Work on Shabbat
Sister Marry
Charming Amulets
Retiring Women
Death Penalty - a Capital Idea?
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213 A Man in the Making
Jewish-Lite
What Am I, Chopped Liver?
Human Happiness
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212 The Boss's Bad Side
Lunar Liturgy
Thought and Action
Is Hashem in the Bible?
Talmud Chacham
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211 Where Have All the Year's Gone?
What's New!
Reenactment of Sinai
Misplaced Merit
Disc O' Davening
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210 Kaddish Without A Minyan
The Bible’s Code
Shabbat Hospitality
Who Knows Twelve?
Swan Vs. Giraffe
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209 Tonight Is Another Day!
In The Wake Of The Snake
Finick-Kid
Jingle Bells
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208 Walls On Wheels
Little Kippur
Ushpizin
Mom, Dad, Me, And The Tree
Havdalah Break-Fast
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207 Awe-Full Marriage
Rosh Hashana In A Schnapps Glass
Physical Feetness
Ring Around The Shofar
Paying for Praying
Yiddels and Kittels
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206 Shabbat On The Coast
About Face
Bare Head
Curly, Moe & Larry
Women and Prayer
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205 A Question of Conversion
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204 Using Step-Father's Name
A Lily by Any Other Name
Three Cheers for Ears
Who is G-d?
Who Wrote the Zohar?
Loving that Shabbat
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203 A Wail of a Wall - Which of the West?
Origami
The Importance of Being Aharon
Aruba R&R
Mitzvah Delay
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202 Mothers and Fathers
Peace in Triplicate - Shabbat
Peace in Triplicate - Family
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201 In-Laws and Shabbat Law
Two Tickets to Lotteryville
Masada and Suicide
Charity Blessing
Goliath's Skull
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200 Who's Buried in David's Tomb?
Caution! Marriage!
Why Jews Don't Count
Immersed in Thought
Levites at Work
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199 Vote!
Adam's Tongue
Two’s Company, Ten’s a Minyan
Sticks and Stones
Shop Till You Stop
Jet Fast
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198 Rabbi Ben E. Diction
Survival of the Jews
Unveiling
Silver Where?
Name That Tune
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197 Kosherer Than Thou
Pyramids
Carrying Out in a Holiday Inn
Chapters of the Fathers
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196 Almost True
No Soap
Jews And Jubilee
The Nature of the Evil Nature
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195 Waiting Tables
Mercy on Moshe
Mystic Sixty
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194 Gifts.doc
Sum-buddies
Black and White
Si, Si, Senior
"And Let Us Say..."
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193 Threads are Red
Diabetes on Yom Kippur
Olive Branch of Peace
Sabbath in the Sun
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192 Divine Test
A Grain of Salt
Passing Passing
Folk Music
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191 Intermarriage
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190 Philosopher's Stone
Gotta Light?
Tatto You
Fore are the Mothers
Eulogy of a Farmer
Please Pass the Plastic
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189 Sir Name
Wishing Well
Birds vs. Billy Rubin
Together Alone
Who Wrote the Book of Psalms
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188 High Performance Matzah
What's the Haggadah
Pesach In A Box
Meaning of Leaning
Spiritual Excision
Remembrance
Mommy, Are We There Yet?
Top (Kosher) Dog
Pesach Hut
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187 Mighty Mosquito
Guess Who’s Eating with Katz?
Age Old Question
Sorry Source
Past Tenths
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186 The Writing on the Wall
Snoopy Snooze
Baby Trees
Phil & Thropic
Night Vision
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185 Name Change
If You Knew Sushi...
Good And Better
Pareve Answer
Paging a Nation
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184 Letter Imperfect
High, How Are You?
Who Is Amalek?
For Heaven's Sake,And Other Drinks
A Package Deal
Jewish Humor Lists
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183 The Cemetery Next Door & Hawaiian Punch
Moshe's Birth Certificate
Slalom Prayer
Caviar Kosher
Desire to Study Torah
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182 Adult Circumcision
How Fat is the Kotel?
Crisis of a CEO
Lion Blessings
Live in the Garden of Eden
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181 Is a Medium Rare?
Pyrex-mania
Frog Fears or Crocodile Tears?
Race Trace
Hashem's Attributes
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180 Son Feels Guilty
Idle Idol
Reading the Script
A Smashing Engagement
Supreme Love
Rabbenu Bachya
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179 Is Sign Language?
Cookbook of Creation
"Naar-ish"
A Little Nosy
Prayer for the Payer
Son of the Short Swords
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178 Calvin Klein vs. Label Klein
Keeping Kosher in Kosherland
Who is a Goof?
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177 Are There Flying Rabbis Or Are There Flying None?
Here's Sneezin' Atchoo!
Hong Kong Hanukah
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176 Raiders of the Lost Ark
Starry Starry Night
New Twist on Licorice
Was Mark Twain Jewish?
Atonement w/o the Temple
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175 This Year in 1000 Oaks. Next Year...?
Edible Oinkers -- Will Ham be "LegitiMeat?"
A Blessing on your Neck
Today, I am a Man
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174 Kabbalah-Wannabee
Immunity in the Jewish Community
Bunny Bugs
Book of Healing
Chocolate Locks
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173 Current Candles
Six or Eight?
What if the Greeks had Won?
Apocrypha Now
Greece My Palm
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172 De Vine Revelation
Sheviti
What The Dead Know
Sanhedrin of Seventy
That's What Western Walls Are Made Of
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171 Bless Me, Scottie
Fish Soup
Hu Flung Chow
The Prime of Lavan
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170 Watching the Detectives
Mezuzah Memory
Forty Something
Praying Out Loud
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169 Subway Psalms
Lulav Leftovers
An Exceptional Rule
Minyan Motivation
Tokyo Tips
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168 Hungry for Torah
Dad of David
A Kiss is Just a Kiss
Shabbat in the Fast Lane
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167 A Mount of Names
A Verse to Death
Hungarian Bat-Mitzvah
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166 A Jewish Environment
Fins on the Scale
Tending the Bar Mitzvah
The Rabbi's Car
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165 Shalom By-Us
Wayward Daughter
Meat and Potatoes
Chosen People?
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164 Guardian Angels
Blessed Art
Chair Persons
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163 Braided Bunch
PaRDeS
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162 Jewish Mourning
Cain's Mark
Well, I'll be a Nazarite!
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161 Animal Sacrifices
Papaya
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160 Try it! You'll Like It!
Out of this World!
Lassie Goldberg?
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159 Curses!
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158 Historical Verification of The Torah
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157 On the Tip of Your Tongue
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156 How Now Red Cow
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155 Back of My Hand
To Be, or to Don't Be?
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154 For Eyes
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153 Fingernails
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152 Living in Israel
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151 Oy! Ahoy! Cruisin' on a Shabbos Afternoon
When you Bless Upon a Star
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150 Being Good
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149 Apocalypse Now? The Hale-Bopp Comet
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148 Motion Sensored
Beet It
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147 Pass Over the Peanut Oil
What Isn’t In a Name?
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146 Who is a Ewe?
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145 The 2,000 Dollar Question
Hitting Grass
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144 Wall Power
What's My Line?
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143 Count Your Blessings
Divided We Stand
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142 Shakesprayer
Scriptural Correctness
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141 The Merchant of Vegas
Legal Language
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140 By the Light of the Slivery (yes, slivery) Moon
Cookie Bar Exam
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139 Shoot Me or I’ll Kill Myself
Hard Heart
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138 Guilty of Jilting?
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137 Snipping Whippersnappers
Staying Mainly in Spain
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136 The Right Guard
Holy Rollers
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135 Two Brothers
A Blessing on Your Head
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134 I Had a Dream!
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133 Getting Personal
Letters to Heaven
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132 Orthodox Equinox Paradox
What in the World is the World to Come?
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131 Divine Rhyme in 4/4 Time
O.J. on Trial
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130 World Wide Wabbit Season
A-Fishing We Won't Go
The Name of the Game
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129 Bring 'Em Back Alive
Chanuka in Open Spaces
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128 Ask Any Swordfish You Happen to See
Flood Figures
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127 Dry Bones and Jell-O (TM)
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126 Tombstone, Costa Rica
Picking Up Where We Left Off
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125 Bacteria in the Cafeteria
A Rose by Any Other Name
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124 Raindrops Keep Falling on Your Succah
Post Post
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123 Bristle Fashion
Vowel-up Follow-up
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122 Stripes Forever
Raven Maven
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121 Varying Vowels
Lacto-Carno Pisces
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120 Life In The Fast Vein
Succah-Net
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119 Shofar Scents
Anonymous Kneeling
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118 Know When to Blow
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117 Grave Issue
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116 Bentch like a Mentch
Two Hands are Better than One
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115 Grandma Drama
Lien on his Car
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114 Can You Stand It?
80+40+1=120?
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113 Dubious Dates
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112 Baby-Sitter's Jitters
Hide! It's the Bride!
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111 Second Match
Mixed Vegetables
Father’s Wedding, follow-up
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110 Letter Perfect
Happy Birthday to Germs
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109 Running Prayer
Prayer - Wear, Where?
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108 Mad Cows and Englishmen
Father’s Wedding
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107 Water on Tap
Mix and Match
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106 Extinguish and Distinguish
Another Workout
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105 The Little Things that Count
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104 Two Heads, One Body, Three Questions
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103 Katz in Hats
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102 Family Workout
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101 Parents with Bread
Heavenly Journey
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100 Blazing Succahs
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99 Wheat Futures
Kabbalah
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98 A Pointed Question
Two Yuds - A Second Look
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97 Speech Therapy
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96 A Clean Scalp?
Yeshiva of Survival
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95 Immersion in Flakes
Who is a Prophet?
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94 Plane Prayer
Two Shins
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93 Two Yuds
High Voltage
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92 For Ever a Yeshiva
About Face
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91 My Favorite Martian
Sorry, I Forgot
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90 Doorway Disputes
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89 The Straight Dope
Watch The Birdie
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88 The Ninth Night of Chanukah
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87 Where Bread Ends
Waiting for Messiah
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86 A Light Meal
Birthdays
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85 The Count of Israel
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84 Prophet Organizations
Royal Snails
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83 Adopt and Multiply
Chicken Scoop
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82 Postings and Toastings
Reflections of a Newborn
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81 Safed, Tsfas and Zefat
Kosher Kiddie Kitchen Koncerns
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80 The Limits of Limits
Who is a Hebrew?
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79 Kids 'R US
Clearing the Air and Space
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78 Jews in Space
Succah Shed
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77 Order in the Court - Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur
What does it mean, Sela?
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76 A Modest Question about Sheitles
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75 Copy. Right?
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74 40 Day Fast
40 Day-Old Cholent
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73 Tattoo Jew
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72 Roller-Blades
Cholent Follow-Up
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71 The New World
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70 Inviting a Shabbat Driver
Hot on Shabbat
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69 World Wide Wabbi
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68 A Man's Bracha
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67 Thou Shalt Not Read They Neighbors' E-Mail?
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66 Do Good Guys Wear Black Hats?
In Search of the "Missing" Parsha
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65 Spousal Abuse - A Torah Perspective
Corrected a Bracha on the (Pepperidge®) Farm
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64 Pringles - Stop Before You Pop for a Bracha
Mayim Achronim Water
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63 Parshat Hashavua - Why can't we get our acts together?
Count D'Omer
Engagement Ring & The Omer
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62 Is Peach Really Over? Chametz After Pesach
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61 Punishment w/o Crime?
The Double Triangle
Acronyms (Shlita)
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60 A Six-Pointed Question: The Origins of The Magen David
Answer to Last Week's Riddle
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59 Mezuzah -- Which Way is UP??
This Week's Riddle
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58 I-DOLL-atry?
Earring Follow-up
Answer to Last Week's Tricky Riddle
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57 Hamentaschen
Follow-up on the Tennessee Torah-less Torah Service
A Tricky Riddle
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56 Earrings for Men; Pants for Women; Problems for Modern Times
Answer to Last Week's Riddle
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55 Flax in Sheep's Clothing -- Shatnez
This Week's Riddle
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54 Torah: A Censorship Dilemma
Answer to Last Week's Riddle
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53 Baruch Atah Hashem...al Mitzvat Exercise???
Yet Another Bracha Riddle!
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52 Now You See It, & Now You Don't...Prestidigitation in Halacha
Bracha Riddle Answer
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51 What is an "Ayin Hara"?
A Bracha Riddle
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50 Two Worlds -- Which is Better?
Answers to Last Week's Riddle (4 names in Amidah).
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49 Do-It-Yourself Shabbat Services (sans Torah)
Answer to Last Week's Riddle
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48 Naming the Kids
Readers Write: Follow-up on the Lottery...
Bracha Riddle (2 names in Amidah)
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47 Scrabble(tm), Monopoly(tm) and Chess on Shabbat
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46 It only takes a buck...and a little bit of luck: Playing the lottery.
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45 Miracles: "In those days" yes, but what about "these days"
Polystyrene Chanukia -- "Now that's a fire!"
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44 Why does everyone keep on saying "Mazel Tov"???
Kippa Size. Kippa & Women. Keep on Reading ...
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43 Kippa -- why??
Mom, Missionaries, Money and Making Calls.
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42 Genetic Testing - according to Halacha
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41 One Creator, a Plural Name
Cereal and Milk
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40 Persistent Pentateuch Pinkie Pointing People.
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39 Shabbat elevators
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38 Glass Dishes for Meat & Dairy.
Eating Meat & Dairy on the Concorde.
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37 The meaning of "HaMakom"
Going to Mormon "Family History Libraries (tm)"
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36 Jogging and Shabbat
Anger and the Torah
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35 Ushpizin -- Succah Guests
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34 Glow in the dark toys and Shabbat
Pregnancy and Yom Kippur
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33 Blood transfusions and chocolate
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32 Is a tomato a with a pig gene kosher?
Asking for forgiveness via E-mail
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31 Putting animals "to sleep"
Assorted Shabbat questions
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30 Velcro and Shabbat
Throwing coins into a wishing well
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29 Is mother's milk "Milchig" (dairy)?
What is the meaning of the words that are written on the back of a Mezuza?
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28 The Jewish View on Euthanasia
Can you open a book that has writing on the outer edge of the pages on Shabbat?
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27 How do you keep Shabbat in a place where the sun always shines?
Is man intrinsically evil?
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26 Sending E-mail to a place where it is still Shabbat
What's the deal with Judaism and Hair???
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25 Isn't there something wrong with sending mail (snail-mail) on Fridays?
What is Olam Haba?
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24 Does the Torah say that we should be happy?
How do you tell someone that they are doing something wrong?
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23 Why marital relations are forbidden during a women's monthly cycle
Why we light Shabbat candles 18 minutes before sundown
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22 Erasing Torah from computer software or screens
How is a person "stoned to death"?
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21 Minyan via computers
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20 Donation of Organs
Breaking a Glass at a Wedding
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19 Are locusts really Kosher?!
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18 Why is Honey Kosher?
What happens at an "Unveiling"
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17 Stepparents in the Torah
The lack of repetition of the Amidah in Ma'ariv.
Why the paragraph "Y'hi Ratzon" after the Amidah is in small print
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16 Placing Stones on Graves
A Family Dilemma
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15 What to do when Pesach occurs on Saturday night
An insight into the meaning of "Dayenu."
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14 The Commandment to Believe in G-d
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13 Being punished for the bad deeds of your ancestors
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12 Virtual Reality Minyan
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11 Judaism and Pets
Clarification of Rabbi Akiva teaching Kaddish
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10 Insights into Saying Kaddish
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9 G-d and earthquakes
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8 Why Judaism only accepts matrilineal descent
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7 Does being created in G-d's image mean G-d is physical?
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6 Judaism's view on Homosexuality
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5 Why men wear sidelocks (peyot)
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4 Why we don't wear tefillin all day long
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3 How can people justify studying Torah all the time
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2 Why is the commandment to be "fruitful and multiply" only applicable to Jews
A Clarification on lighting Chanukah candles when crossing the International Date
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1 Lighting Chanukah Candles when crossing the International Date Line
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