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 Shabbat

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• Why Shabbat?
• Blessing Children on Shabbat or Holidays

Other Jewish Holidays

• Shefa Elul Page
• Rosh Hashanah: White Robes and Infinity
• Rosh HaShannah: Areshet S'fateinu
  
• Yom Kippur: On Forgiveness
• A Prayer for Yom Kippur Mincha Torah Reading
• An Intention for Reading Leviticus 18
• Sukkot: Beyond the Sensory Feast
• Hanukkah Home Service
• Tu BiShvat: A Mystical Interpretation of Tu biShevat
• Purim: Mahn-O-Mahn
• Purim: Who Was Esther Really?
• Purim: How to Treat Amalek
• Purim: The Poem of Queen Esther
• Passover:  The Alex Weinberg Hagaddah 2009
• Passover:  The Valley Beth Shalom Hagaddah 2009
• Passover:  Excessive Freedom
• Passover:  Post-Seder Questions
• Passover: Symbols of Pesach
• Yom HaSho'ah: Strange Fire
• The Shefa Shavuot Blog
• The Shefa Tisha Be'av Archive
• Teshuvah: Fasting on Tisha BeAv (Hebrew -- English)
• Tisha B'Av: Alone-ness
• Tisha B'Av:  Sadness & Song

"Secular" Holidays

• A Shefa 9/11 Choveret
• Rabbi Gary S. Creditor: Observing 9/11 on 9/12
• 9/11 Eight Years Later
  
• An Ode to Remaining Broken: In a New York State of Mind
• A Prayer for 9-11
• The Akeidah Post 9/11
• Yizkor Yom Kippur 2001
• 9/11: A Reflection
• Thanksgiving:The Dust of Humanity
• Thanksgiving: An Al HaNisim for Thanksgiving

CJLS Chagim Teshuvot

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Shabbat

• Joel Roth and Norman Krivosha, "Shabbat Lease Arrangement" OH 243.1995a
• Ben Zion Bergman, "Shabbat Corporation Arrangement" OH 243.1995b
• Elliot N. Dorff, "Jewish Businesses Open on Shabbat and Yom Tov: A Concurring Opinion" OH 243.1995c
• David H. Lincoln, "Fixing a Bar Mitzvah Date Before the Birthday " OH 282:3.1981
• Joel Roth, "May a Minor Read from the Torah? " OH 282:3.1982a
• David H. Lincoln, "May a Pre-Bar Mitzvah Boy Read from the Torah? " OH 282:3.1982b
• Ben Zion Bokser, "Shabbat Morning Bat Mitzvah" OH 284:4.1981
• Kassel Abelson, "Preparing and Serving Food on Shabbat " OH 318:1.1981a
• Mayer Rabinowitz, "Preparation and Serving of Food on Shabbat in the Synagogue " OH 318:1.1981b
• Mayer Rabinowitz and Dvora Weisberg, "Rabbinic Supervision of Jewish Owned Businesses Operating on Shabbat" OH 318:1.1986a
• Howard Handler, "Should Bakeries Which are Open on Shabbat Be Supervised? A Response to the Rabinowitz-Weisberg Opinion" OH 318:1.1986b
• David H. Lincoln, "Videotaping on Shabbat " OH 340:3.1982a
• Mayer Rabinowitz, "An Addendum to "Videotaping on Shabbat" " OH 340:3.1982b
• Mayer Rabinowitz, Dvora Weisberg, "Tape Recording and Photography on Shabbat " OH 340:3.1984
• Gordon Tucker, "The Use of a Remote Audio/Video Monitor on Shabbat and Yom Tov" OH 340:3.1989a
• Arnold Goodman, "May a Shabbat Service Be Taped?" OH 340:3.1989b
• Elliot Dorff and Gordon Tucker, "On Recording Shabbat and Yom Tov Services" OH 340:3.1989c
• Amy Eilberg, "The Use of a Remote Audio/Video Monitor on Shabbat and Yom Tov: A Dissenting Opinion" OH 340:3.1989d
• Howard Handler, "On Recording Shabbat and Yom Tov Services: A Dissenting Opinion" OH 340:3.1989e

• Kassel Abelson, "When Pesah Begins on Saturday Night" OH 444.1993
• Kassel Abelson, "The Use of Cheese on Pesah" OH 447:2.1985
• Mayer E. Rabinowitz, "Canned Tuna Fish on Pesah" OH 447:5.1995
• Paul Plotkin, "Manual for Supervising the Kashrut of Bakeries" OH 451:2004
• Kassel Abelson, "Can Utensils Lined with Silverstone be Kashered?" OH 451:3.1991
• Kassel Abelson, "Kashering a Microwave Oven for Pesah " OH 451:5.1983
• Kassel Abelson, "May Glass Cookware Be Kashered?" OH 451:26.1990a
• Howard Handler, "On Kashering Glass Vessels" OH 451:26.1990b
• Paul Drazen, "Kashrut in the Synagogue" OH 451.2003
• Mayer Rabinowitz, "A Pesah Guide " OH 453.1984
• Ben Zion Bergman, "A New Look at Peanuts—From the Ground Up" OH 453:1.1986
• Kassel Abelson, "May Baking Soda Be Used During Pesah? " OH 462:1.1982
• Morris Feldman, "Does Milk Need a Kasher L'Pesah Label?" OH 488:7.1985
• Aaron Alexander, Bradley Shavit Artson "A Missed Day in the Life of the Omer" OH 489:8.2009
• Mayer Rabinowitz, "The Question of Yom Tov Sheini for Visitors to Israel " OH 496:3.1981

• Kassel Abelson, "Omission of the Silent Amidah" OH 582.1995

• George Pollak, "Blowing the Shofar After Ma'ariv Following Yom Kippur" OH 623:6

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