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HIGH HOLIDAYS HAPPY NEW YEAR- JEWISH STYLE ...... February 1998 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADAM ...... October 1998 PIYYUTIM: HIGH HOLY DAY LITURGICAL POETRY ...... October 1998 DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA...... August 1999 ...... September 2000 THE THIRTEEN ATTRIBUTES OF GOD...... October 2000 MISINAI MELODIES ...... September 2001 AKEDA-THE TENTH TEST ...... October 2001 TWO WAYS TO STAND ...... September 2002 SYMBOLIC FOODS...... September-October 2003 ROSH HASHANAH SYMBOLIC FOODS: AN ADDENDUM ...... November-December 2003 KOL NIDRE ...... September-October 2005 THE SOUNDS OF THE SHOFAR ...... September-October 2006 ACROSTICS ...... September-October 2008 HIGH HOLIDAY CUSTOMS ...... September-October 2009 NEILAH ...... September-October 2010 JONAH ...... September-October 2011 UNETANE TOKEF ...... January-February 2014 PESACH WILL THE REAL SEDER PLATE PLEASE STAND UP? ...... April 1998 : ONE HOLIDAY OR TWO? ...... March 1999 PESACH EATING CUSTOMS…...... April 2000 THE FIFTH CUP (AND MORE) ...... May 2000 WHY ELIJAH? ...... April 2003 HOW LONG SHOULD THE SEDER LAST? ...... May 2003 RITUAL COMMITTEE CORNER (FAST OF THE FIRST BORN) ...... March-April 2009 THE PASSOVER ...... May-June 2010 THE FOUR SONS ...... March-April 2012 SEDER SONGS ...... May-June 2018 THAT “ARAMEAN” REFERENCE...... July-August 2019 THE SEVEN WEEK COUNTDOWN ...... May 1998 A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN ...... May 1999 SO WHO IS MS. TUSHIA? ...... June 1999 THE MEANING OF “SHAVUOT” ...... May-June 2008 SUCCOT THE FOUR SPECIES ...... October 1998 A MATCHED SET ...... September 1999 THANKSGIVING, JEWISH STYLE ...... November 1999 SPECIAL GUESTS ...... November-December 2003 THE LULAV ...... September-October 2013 A RECONSTRUCTED HISTORY OF THE SUCCOT CELEBRATION ...... November-December 2017 ...... November-December 2018 CHANUKAH “WHAT IS CHANUKAH?” ...... December 1997 HOW MANY MACCABEES ARE THERE? ...... December 1998 WHY IS CHANUKA CELEBRATED ON THE 25TH OF ? ...... November-December 2006 CHANUKAH FAQS ...... November-December 2010 CHANUKAH, JUDITH, AND CHEESE ...... November-December 2011 PURIM MUSINGS ...... March 1998 PURIM: RECONCILING WITH THE DIASPORA ...... March-April 2007 HAMAN’S TEN SONS ...... May-June 2020 AMALEK, HAMAN, AND AHASUERUS ...... March-April 2021 OTHER DATES OF NOTE WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT THIS MONTH? A JEWISH ANSWER ...... January 1998 THE THREE WEEKS AND ...... July 1998 THE DAY THAT TRULY LIVED ON IN INFAMY ...... August 1998 THE RODNEY DANGERFIELD OF JEWISH MONTHS...... November 1998 FOUR MODERN DAYS OF NOTE ...... April 1999 MILLENNIUM, JEWISH STYLE ...... December 1999 CALENDS AND THE CALENDAR ...... January 2000 TU B' ??? ...... July-August 2003 ...... July-August 2008 BIRCHAT HACHAMA- OVER THE SUN ...... March-April 2009 9...... March-April 2014 SOFERIM AND MASORETES ...... March 2002 A CAREFUL LOOK AT THE MASORETIC TEXT ...... April 2002 WHAT YOU SEES AIN’T WHAT YOU HEARS ...... May 2002 FAQS ABOUT THE TORAH ...... June 2002 WHAT DID THE TABLETS LOOK LIKE? ...... November-December 2002 WITH WHICH VERSE DOES THE SECOND COMMANDMENT BEGIN?...... January 2003 ETZ CHAYIM --WHY THE CONTROVERSY? ...... March 2003 THE FIVE MEGILLOT ...... May-June 2007 CANTILLATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ...... July-August 2011 WHAT DID THE MENORAH LOOK LIKE? ...... July-August 2012 THE OLDEST TORAH ...... September-October 2012 THE “WIFE-SISTER” TRICK ...... November-December 2014 THE BATTLE OF THE KINGS ...... May-June 2017 THE NOAHIDE LAWS ...... January-February 2018 WAS IT AN APPLE? ...... January-February 2019 LILITH AND EVE ...... March-April 2019 KING DAVID’S LEGITIMACY ...... September-October 2019 THE WISDOM LITERATURE ...... January-February 2020 THE HARDENING OF PHARAOH’S HEART ...... March-April 2020 WHAT’S IN A NAME ...... September-October 2020 ABOUT 613 MITZVOT ...... November-December 2020 PRAYER THE WEEKLY READER ...... March 1998 THE DAILY PSALM ...... June 1998 THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING NUN ...... February 2000 LIEBERMAN’S THANKS ...... August 2000 THREE FORMS OF “IT” ...... November 2000 MAGDIL AND MIGDOL ...... April 2001 PRAYER OF JABEZ ...... September-October 2004 THE OPENING OF THE ...... March-April 2005 THE CLOSING BLESSINGS OF THE AMIDAH ...... May-June 2005 IT’S ABOUT TIME! ...... November-December 2007 RITUAL COMMITTEE CORNER (PRAYER TIMES) ...... November-December 2007 THE KOREN - THE NEWEST ORTHODOX SIDDUR ...... July-August 2009 WHO WROTE THE HALLEL? ...... July-August 2010 OUR DAILY BLESSINGS ...... May-June 2011 IN, FROM, AND WITH EVERYTHING ...... January-February 2013 PARTNERSHIP MINYANIM ...... May-June 2014 TAL AND GESHEM ...... September-October 2016 TKHINES...... March-April 2017 AVODAT HALEV-THE NEW RCA SIDDUR ...... March-April 2019

RITUAL AND WHAT ABOUT TWEETY? ...... January 1999 STONES AT THE CEMETERY ...... January 2002 TALK ...... January-February 2004 OPENING BENEDICITES ...... January-February 2004 GLEANINGS FROM LIKUTEI P’SHATIM (SPRAY AND LAUNDERING) ...... May-June 2005 THE WIG STORY ...... January-February 2006 THE PINKIE STORY ...... January-February 2006 MAGEN DAVID ...... July-August 2006 TEFILLIN-HOWS AND WHYS ...... July-August 2006 THE RED STRING ...... January-February 2007 RITUAL COMMITTEE CORNER (FISH AND MEAT) ...... July-August 2007 THE FUSS ABOUT SHMITTAH ...... January-February 2008 INSIDE “THE RED TENT” ...... May-June 2012 YID LIDS ...... May-June 2013 “WORK” ON THE SABBATH ...... November-December 2005 MORE ON “WORK” ...... March-April 2006 THE ORIGINS OF BAR AND BAT ...... January-February 2015 THE “SHABBES GOY” ...... March-April 2015 THE PRIESTLY BLESSING ...... May-June 2015 KAPOROS/KAPAROT ...... November-December 2016 SHATNEZ-KOSHER CLOTHES ...... March-April 2018 FOOD TODAY-PART I ...... May-June 2004 KASHRUT TODAY-PART II ...... July-August 2004 KASHRUT ALERT (COPEPODS) ...... September-October 2004 MORE KASHRUT ALERTS (HEBREW NATIONAL AND EMPIRE) ...... November-December 2004 KASHRUT TODAY-PART III ...... May-June 2005 WHAT MAKES WINE “KOSHER”? ...... July-August 2005 FISH AND MEAT ...... July-August 2007 FOOD IN JEWISH RELIGIOUS TEXTS ...... November-December 2012 YOU CAN’T TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A SCORECARD ...... July-August 2015 A FINE KETTLE OF FISH...... September-October 2015 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE HOW TO COUNT TO SEVENTY ...... June 2000 KING SAUL’S REIGN ...... July 2000 WANDERING IN THE DESERT-- PART I ...... May 2001 WANDERING IN THE DESERT – PART II ...... June 2001 THE WANDERING ARK ...... July 2001 THE DISPOSITION OF THE BROKEN TABLETS ...... August 2001 WILL THE REAL REED SEA PLEASE STAND UP ...... August 2001 WHERE DID THAT “RED SEA” NAME COME FROM? ...... September 2001 -DID HE HAVE TWO WIVES? ...... November 2001 MOSES - DID HE HAVE TWO WIVES (CONTINUED) ...... December 2001 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE ...... February 2002 THE 38 YEAR ISRAELITE HIDEOUT ...... July-August 2002 BURIAL SITES OF ISHMAEL AND ESAU ...... March-April 2004 ISHMAEL'S WIFE AND SEFER HAYASHAR ...... March-April 2004 ’S TOMB ...... May-June 2009 THE YESHIVAH OF SHEM AND EVER ...... January-February 2011 THE THIRTY SIX RIGHTEOUS MEN ...... March-April 2011 PAPPOS BEN YEHUDAH ...... January-February 2012 MOSES’S GRANDSON ...... March-April 2013 THE TWELVE TRIBES ...... January-February 2016 THE HIGH ’S BREASTPLATE ...... March-April 2016 EARLY ESCAPE FROM EGYPT ...... July-August 2018 THE CONQUERED NATIONS ...... November-December 2019 JEWISH ANTHROPOLOGY REMNANTS OF THE “LOST TRIBES OF ” IN INDIA ...... January-February 2009 REMNANTS OF THE “LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL” IN AFRICA-PART 1 ...... January-February 2010 REMNANTS OF THE “LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL” IN AFRICA-PART 2 ...... March-April 2010 THE BRATSLAV CHASIDIM ...... July-August 2014 DIFFERENCES IN ...... January-February 2021 O.C. AND M.B...... February 2001 COVENANTS AND CODES ...... March 2001 DR. ELIEZER BERKOVITS -WHY A WEEKEND IN HIS HONOR? ...... October 2002 HERTZ AND JTS ...... April 2003 JEWISH LITERACY-PART I ...... November-December 2004 JEWISH LITERACY-PART II ...... January-February 2005 RABBI MEIR: THE JEWISH AESOP ...... May-June 2006 THE JEWISH LEGEND LITERATURE ...... July-August 2007 THE JEWISH LEGEND LITERATURE - PART II ...... September-October 2007 TKHINES...... March-April 2017 HISTORY OF THE ...... July-August 2017 TWO WHO SAVED JUDAISM ...... September-October 2017 LAMED VAV TSADIKIM- 36 RIGHTEOUS MEN...... January-February 2020 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS LETTER FROM THE EDITOR ...... December 1997 GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE ...... December 1997 HOW HIGH THE MECHITZAH? ...... February 1999 ONE MORE SUMMER COW ...... July 1999 HOW NOW, BROWN COW ...... July 1999 ASHKENAZ AND SEPHARAD: A NOTE ON THEIR ORIGINS ...... October 1999 AS EASY AS PI ...... March 2000 HEBREW AS THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE USA...... December 2000 A SNOW JOB ...... January 2001 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON ...... February 2003 KABBALISTIC TIKKUN ...... June 2003 “EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY, FOR TOMORROW YOU DIE” ...... June 2003 THE BILL...... March-April 2008 ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL-OLD STYLE ...... November-December 2008 LO TITGODEDU ...... November-December 2009 THE CHIEF RABBI ...... September-October 2013 THE PEW REPORT ...... November-December 2013 PARTNERSHIP MINYANIM ...... May-June 2014 ADAM I AND ADAM II ...... September-October 2015 EVE I AND EVE II ...... November-December 2015 MAZEL TOV ...... May-June 2016 EZEKIEL THE TRAGEDIAN ...... July-August 2016 THE THREE OATHS ...... January-February 2017 INTEREST BEARING LOANS ...... September-October 2018 WALLED CITIES ...... May-June 2019