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Apr 13, 2020

Linda Schwab’s New Book Tells Story of Holocaust, After

by Adam Grobman

Linda Schwab has been educating people about the Holocaust for a long time. Now, her words and experience will educate for decades to come.

Earlier this year, Linda published her book Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning, with co-author Dr. Todd M. …

Apr 13, 2020

Remember Fido and Fluffy’s Diets During Passover

By Mary Klaus

Technically, your pets may not be Jewish. But you are.

As Jews enter the Passover season, many believe that their pets, like themselves, should not have food with chametz (leavened bread) such as wheat, barley, oats, rye, spelt, pasta, and brewer’s yeast. After all, observa…

Apr 13, 2020

The Man Who Nourishes Bodies, Souls

By Mary Klaus

Norman Gras proves the saying “the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.”

Norman, owner of Norman Gras Kosher Food Consultant, followed his mother, the late Fanny Gras, as the best-known kosher food expert in the midstate. She spent decades working as the kosher caterer …

Apr 7, 2020

Statement from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association on COVID-19

Statement from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
on Communal Gatherings during COVID-19 Pandemic
 

At this time of global pandemic and the urgent need to stop the spread of Coronavirus, we Jews find ourselves caught between a number of dearly held values.  We have the desire an…

Apr 7, 2020

Resources and Best Wishes For Passover from TBS

by Rabbi Carl Choper, Temple Beth Shalom

Passover begins the night of Wednesday April 8 and continues for the next 8 days until it is dark on Thursday April 16.  During those days we avoid eating khumetz (leavening - any forms of grain other than matzah, yeast,  and traditionally also…