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Adar: Food as Transformation

March 3, 2015 by Ketzirah

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What so many of us know about the holiday of Purim is what we can remember from the reading of the Megilah, getting to scream and yell in Synagogue, and, well, getting really…really….lit. Nothing like a Jewish holiday where we are actually supposed to get drunk and party. Yes. It’s the Jewish Mardi Gras.

All of that is amazing, fun and good.

But there is another tradition of Purim that I think we should all be talking about and more importantly DOING: Mishloach Manot (aka Shalach Manot).

Simply, this mitzvah is about the giving of two kinds of food gifts to someone. Mostly now it seems to be about giving a couple of kinds of hamentaschen to your grandmother. But there is such a clearer, deeper reason for this. Purim falls just as the winter is coming to an end. The time when in another era, in [Read more…]

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Shawn Landres: Jewish Contribution to a Global World

March 27, 2012 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCWH05jiHo

Shawn Landres, co-founder of Jumpstart, talks about whether doing “acts of social justice” is inherently Jewish and defining our acts Jewishly.

Filmed at Limmudfest 2011, Atlanta. Visit us at www.theg-dproject.org

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