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Can I use vinegar to clean non-food items during Passover?

How Do I Explain G-d to My Grandchildren?

I heard that G‑d does not want us to create hybrid fruit. So my question is, if G‑d is not happy with this fruit, should I make a blessing before eating it?

The rabbi in my synagogue tells me that my daughter should begin lighting Shabbat candles. My very traditional grandmother disagrees. Can you please enlighten me?

This is the only Jewish fast that is observed on Friday, which means that we fast all the way up until we make kiddush.

According to chassidic teachings, Yom Kippur falling on Shabbat doesn’t “deprive” us of the pleasures which Shabbat normally affords us. Rather the extremely holy nature of Yom Kippur accomplishes the same objective . . .

Maimonides teaches that the reason the Torah forbade the destruction of the beard is because shaving was a practice of ancient idol-worshippers.

According to biblical law, the Jubilee is only observed when all twelve tribes of the Jewish nation are living in Israel . . .