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White T-Shirt Day
ב"ה If you support Unions, White T-Shirt Day is for you.
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Vegan Breakfast
Spending 8 hours in bed, after having not eaten for 2-4 hours, means our bodies have gone 10-12 hours minimum without nutrition. This is why eating breakfast is so important. Our bodies are not designed to go without fuel for very long, so we need...
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Healthy Vegan "White" Lasagne
I am a big fan of Dr. Oz. And, as a fan, I watched more than one episode that featured "The Hungry Girl". On one of her recent appearances, she featured a recipe for lasagne. I liked the idea of using vegetables as the "noodles" and using mushrooms...
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Blueberry Vegan Recipes
ב"ה Blueberries are very healthy.
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Bosom Buddies: 70s Campy Kitsch
B"H -- I once saw a blurb describing "Bosom Buddies" as "Some Like it Luke Warm", a reference to its similarity to "Some Like it Hot". But "Bosom Buddies" was more than just two men in drag...
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Can You Help with Marketing for Cafe Press, Zazzle and other on-line Graphics Shops!
ב"ה Starting a business on line seems as though it will be the answer to your marketing issues, but it's only the begining.
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Healthy Wheat Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Muffins
ב"ה Since I am vegan, diabetic and can't eat a number of different things (wheat and strawberries, for example) I make my own desserts. These muffins fit the bill.
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Healthy Halloween Treats: Teach Kids Good Nutrition Even on Halloween
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Jewish Themed Costumes for Purim and Halloween
ב"ה Purim is similar to Halloween in that we wear costumes. Here are some ideas for Jewish themed costumes for Purim or Halloween.
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Strong Biblical Women
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Moondancing to Reduce Stress
ב"ה We all have stress in our lives -- this is one way I try to deal with mine.
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My Father's Day Birth
ב"ה I was born on Father's Day.
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"Creamy" Cauliflower Sauce
ב"ה When I was a child, I loved Cauliflower. I recently found my former joy at eating cauliflower and found out I STILL love cauliflower!
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Presidental Quiz -- Answers
ב"ה Answers to the Presidential Quiz
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Get Healthy -- Eat Breakfast!
ב"ה Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
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Compote: Eat Alone, As a Topping or Add Yogurt
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The Golden Girls: Making Older Women Visible on TV
ב"ה The Golden Girls was one of those classic programs that combined humor and real-life situations. Even younger people could identify with a lot of what they went through.
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Benson: Soap's Brilliant Offspring
ב"ה I always loved "Soap" and when Benson spun off into his own program, I was thrilled. I wasn't disappointed.
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Murphy Brown: Making Washington Funny
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Felix and Oscar Live Forever
B"H When my sister and I were young, we shared a room for a short time (though my sister might thing it was a long time). She's very organized and very good about throwing things out. I'm, well, let's just say, less than organized and terrible...
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Rhoda: New York, this is your last chance
B"H A few years back, Valerie Harper spoke at a hotel near my home. My Mom and I went with a friend of hers to hear Valerie speak. She spoke a lot about her part of the Mary Tyler Moore Show and I got a chance to talk to her. I happen to look a...
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Vegan Cholent for the Cold Weather
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Quickie Vegan Cheesecake
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Using Baby Food in your Adult Food
I have always liked baby food. My sister was born when I was 8 and, 6 years later, when I was 14, my brother was born. So I was old enough to feed two of my younger siblings. I used to finish off their baby food when I fed them. Now I'm an adult...
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Fettuccine Alfredo Healthy Vegan Redux
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Richard III: Hero or Villain?
Richard III (the real one, not to be confused with the Shakespeare villain) was a much maligned king of England who reigned form 1483 - 1485, when he was deposed by Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond (future king Henry VII) at the Battle of Bosworth. A...
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New Moral Children's Books
Nowadays, too many children aren't taught moral values. They think what they need is more important than what others need and they will hurt other people to get what they want. I've always thought it's important to teach our children the values...
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Budget Holiday Gifts from Compugraph Designs
Compugraph Designs is a company that creates graphic images to decorate t-shirts, coffee mugs, canvas bags, stuffed animals, neck ties and many other products. We also design fabric and have some illustrated children's books. These items are...
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Hanukka Gifts for Baby's First Hanukka
ב"ה Despite its reputation and popularity, Hanukka is a relatively minor holiday in Judaism. But, because of its proximity to another holiday, it's become the big holiday it is today in the US.
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Pluto: Planet or Dwarf?
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Memories of September 11th
With September 11th 2012 coming up, I was thinking about 9-11. I remembered that 9-11-2001 was on a Tuesday and, I realized that this year, for the second time since 2001, September 11th would be Tuesday again. Like other seminal questions of a...
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Read a Book Day
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Should Gay Marriage be Legal
Many states in the US have voted to legalize Gay marriage. It's a tough fight; so many people feel that marriage should be defined as being only between one man and one woman. Back in the 1800s, Utah became a state based on the Mormon population...
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Using Photos as Design
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How to Figure Square Roots (Reducing)
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July 26th: Aunts and Uncles Day
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Math Hints: Algebra -- Difference of Squares
ב"ה Standardized tests love this -- if you can master "Difference of Squares" you can save a lot of time on SATs, NYS Regents exams and other Algebra tests.
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My 10 Favorite Marx Brothers Movies
Leonard, Arthur, Julius, Milton and Herbert. Most people know them by other names, most given to them at a poker game. At that poker game, Leonard became Chicko (the "K" got dropped later on and he became "Chico"), Arthur became Harpo, Julius became...
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Lou Gehrig -- "Born on the 19th of June"
ב"ה I am a big Lou Gehrig fan, even though I'm a Met fan not a Yankee fan.
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My Wood Shop Years
B"H When I was in elementary school, the town I lived in had a free music and art summer program. I had always loved arts and crafts, so I enrolled in the program. In addition to pen and ink, ceramics, stained glass, knitting and sewing (among...
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Math Hints: A Piece of Pi
March 14th is "National Pi Day" because Pi is represented, rounded to the nearest hundredth, as 3.14. Pi is also sometimes approximated as 22/7, or 3 and 1/7. Pi is an irrational number that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to...
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Teaching Myself to Design and Sew
I have been interested in fashion and designing since I was young.
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Sweet Healthy Chocolate Topped Cookies
ב"ה Everyone loves cookies, but no one likes the extra pounds. Healthy cookies is a way to deal with this.
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US Presidents (And a Couple of Quizzes)
ב"ה I have always been fascinated with the US Presidents.
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I Love my Nieces and Nephews
When I was younger we used to get catalogs from places like Spencer's Gifts and Miles Kimball. One of the things they used to carry was funny bumper stickers. One of the bumper stickers said, "If I'd have known being a grandparent was so much fun,...
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Penguin Awareness Day
January 20th is Penguin Awareness Day. I've always been a huge fan of Penguins (my favorite comic strip character is Opus the Penguin whom I first started following when he was in Bloom County by Berke Breathed). So here is one of MY Penguin...
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Zazzle Parsha Ties
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Gifts for Babies
Whether you want to get clothing or books, babies are on just about everyone's list. Children, (Great) Grandchildren, nieces, nephews, students, cousins, all of us started out as babies. Babies need clothing and have books read to them. They like...
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Gifts for the Math Geek on your list
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Make your House Smell Nice
Though I've been wearing vision correction since I was eight years old (I'm terribly nearsighted) I was, thank G-d, blessed with four good senses. For the most part, I'm very grateful for these strong senses. This gratitude, however, doesn't extend...
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Cauliflower Based Pasta Sauce
I've been rediscovering my lifelong love of the versatile cauliflower. Cruciforous vegetables keep popping up in articles I've been reading about healthy foods. So I decided to take a head of cauliflower and steam it. Then I took out the food...
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Strange Stories Amazing Facts
A number of years ago, I bought a Reader's Digest book called "Strange Stories and Amazing Facts" from Reader's Digest. I found the book to be not only fascinating, but totally addictive. The book pictured here isn't my copy, but my copy looks...
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Jewish Themed Costumes
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My Favorite Gift
One of the most wonderful things about today's world is the ability to keep in touch with loved ones who are geographically far away. My best friends lives 6 states south of me (and, when we first met, she was "clear across the country), one brother...
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I think people need to question their doctors and get input from alternative medical sources.
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Begin Learning Hebrew Here
ב"ה [These two letters stand for "B'Ezrat Hashem" meaning with the help of Hashem -- another word for G-d]
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Corel Photo-Paint X5
ב"ה While I love Photo Shop, Corel Photo-Paint X5 also has a lot of good editing tools.
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My Favorite Jewish Music
ב"ה I began getting into Jewish Music with the group "Safam". I actually sang solo on one of their songs (with one of the Jewish Community choirs I have sung with) with the parents of their lead singer in the audience. (I suppose I should add that I went to school with the lead singer's younger...
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Simultaneous Equations
Simultaneous Equation solving is one area of Algebra than many of my students have had difficult with.
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Algebra: Exponents
In the years I've been tutoring, I have noticed that many people find the concepts of exponents to be a very daunting one. But exponents are really only an easier, more understandable way of expressing larger, more cumbersome numbers. I hope you...
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Gift Ideas from Compugraph Designs
Compugraph Designs has stores on Cafe Press, Zazzle and Printfection. Products with unique designs created in many different categories including sports, vegetarianism. animals, flowers, Judaica, Jewish holidays, women, etc. There's a design for...
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My Favorite TV Shows Growing Up
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Try Something New for your Wedding Invitations from Cafe Press, Zazzle, Arts Now, etc
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Call me Imelda cause I love shoes!
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Non-Scary Halloween Theme Movies
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Our Fascination with Ghosts
ב"ה Why are we so fascinated with Ghosts?
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Witches and Wizards in Fiction
ב"ה It seems that we are obsessed with witches and wizards. When life gets tough, we wish there was an easy way to handle it. But from fiction we see that even "easy answers" aren't that easy.
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Vegan Pumpkin Pudding
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My Favorite NFL Football Teams
B"H I love playing football. I also love watching football. But in order to truly enjoy watching football, I need to be rooting for one of the teams in the game. If I don't care who wins, I find that I don't enjoy the game nearly as much. (At one...
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If You Love Animals, Don't Eat Them.
ב"ה The best thing you can do for animals is to not eat them.
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Math Tips 4 -- "Soh" "Cah" "Toa"
B"H Many of my tutoring students have trouble with trigonometry. But the main part of trig is quite simple if you know some tricks. All you have to do is keep a few things in mind and you can solve just about any trig problem. Students who are new...
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Being Single at a Wedding
B"H Attending family events can be a minefield of emotional vicissitudes for singles (especially when relatives and friends ask embarrassing questions like "so what's happening with you and [insert name of some "I haven't seen in years"...
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The Jewish Wedding
ב"ה The Jewish Wedding is quite a bit different from a non-Jewish wedding. If you find yourself lost, this should help.
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Jewish Holiday Haiku -- fun quick explanations of the Jewish Holidays
ב"ה There are a lot of Jewish holidays and just about all of them have something involved that makes them hard work before hand. So I wanted to make them all "fun". When I was in grade school, I used to love writing poetry in general and haiku in specific.
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Final Jeopardy
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(Vocational) Memoirs of an ADHDer
ב"ה I didn't even hear of ADHD until I was well into my adult years.
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Who is buried in Grant's tomb?
Grant's Tomb is a NY Landmark, but it's best known as an easy to answer question.
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Presidential Tidbits
B"H When I was growing up, my brother and I got hooked on the presidents and trivia about them. We played with presidents' statues, colored in presidential coloring books, read presidential biographies and other books. We got to know the presidents...
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Strong Jewish Women 7 -- Miriam the Prophet
B"H During the 40 years that the Children of Israel were in the desert (and even before), Miriam acted as a leader of the Women. When G-d saved the Children of Israel from destruction at the hands of the Egyptians, Miriam led the women in songs of...
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How "Project: Runway" got me excited about designing again.....
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Being a New Internet Small Business Owner
B"H I'm still on that journey and I'd like to chronicle my experiences so far. If you are a success, please leave me your advice. I'm all ears so to speak. Update 6/4/2011: I found another site to sell my art work. I still haven't sold anything...
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Why I'm a Red Sox fan
B"H I have been following the Red Sox since I was very young. I became interested in baseball when I was 6 or 7, back when very few girls (or women) were sports fans. In the days of local baseball only on TV, how did a young fan get to know about...
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Math Hints 3 -- Finding the Lowest Common Denominator
B"H So you've heard the term "Lowest Common Denominator" but you're not quite sure what it is. It is a math term, but it's also used to mean "something of small intellectual content designed to appeal to a lowbrow audience ; also : such an...
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The Jewish Months of Av and Elul
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Strong Biblical Women 6 -- Yocheved, Moses's Mother
One of Moshe (Moses)'s women, his Mother, Yocheved, was a strong woman.
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We Survived these 10 Presidents, Amazingly Enough!
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Top Ten Best Presidents
B"H Top Ten Lists are by necessity very subjective. This one is no exception. But as a longtime presidential trivia buff, I feel qualified to judge the presidents on their contributions to society and the world. I'm a presidential trivia buff. My...
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A Jewish Perspective of G-d
Many years ago I wrote some articles on a "pay per click" site. This is a redux of one of those articles.
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Strong Biblical Women Part 5 -- Tamar, Mother of Kings
When her father-in-law broke his promise to her, Tamar took matters into her own hands and, in the process, became the mother of kings. While the story is often glossed over because of the sexual nature, the story of Yehuda and Tamar is a very...
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TV Actors on 2 Shows -- Quick Answers to the Quiz
B"H Here are the answers to my "TV Actors on 2 Shows" quiz. If you haven't seen the quiz yet, link to it below. When I was in my teens, my brother and I used to create quizzes. We had always wanted to write a quiz book. This was before home...
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TV Actors on 2 Shows
ב"ה I hope you all love TV Quizzes as much as I do.
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TV Quiz Answers (Name that TV Show -- Answers)
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Name that TV Show (TV Quiz)
I'm a huge TV fan and I also love quiz games. My brother and I were always in the process of writing a quiz book (we had quizzes written on pieces of scrap paper, but we never put it all together).
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The Jewish Months of Summer: Sivan and Tamuz
B"H The months of Sivan and Tamuz begin with good news -- the giving of the Tora -- and end with bad news -- the beginning of the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Sivan, which is represented by Twins (Gemini) usually coincides, for the...
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My blogs
ב"ה I have my own blogs and I enjoy adding to them (when I have the time).
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Strong Biblical Women 4 -- Ruth's Devotion
B"H When Ruth's husband, brother-in-law and father-in-law all died suddenly, Ruth stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi even as her sister-in-law Orpa returned home. "In the time the Judges were judging...", according to the biblical book of Ruth, a...
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Pythagorean Theorem
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Purim, Esther et.al
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The Jewish Calendar Headquarters: Why Do Jewish Holidays Come on Different Secular Dates Each Year?
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John Adams and John Quincy Adams: The "Peter Principle" in Action
B"H Before the Bushes came along, this was the only father and son president pair. John Adams was the 1st Vice President of the US and the 2nd President. If you only looked at his record in these two jobs, you might think he was not a very...
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Passover: The Jewish Spring Holiday
B"H G-d's name for the holiday we call "Passover" (Pesah) is Hag HaMatzot -- the Holiday of Matzas (because the Matza represents our trust in G-d because the Children of Israel left Egypt without letting their dough rise) and we call it "Passover"...
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Math Tips 2 -- Word Problems
B"H One of the most common complaints I hear from my Math students is that word problems give them a headache. But really all you need to do is look for some keys words and phrases to translate the word problem into an equation. (There are certain...
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Math is FUNdamental! Headquarters
ב"ה I love Math -- I also love helping other people understand math.
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Math hints 1 -- Understanding Fractions
Many of my tutoring students have difficulty understand fractions.
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The American Presidents: George Washington
ב"ה Washington was the first -- a lot of what he did set the tone for our country for future generations.
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The Jewish Months Nissan and Iyar
B"H Matza is part of Nissan, because of Pesah (Passover) and part of Iyar because of Pesah Sheini (the Second Passover -- the day people who were impure on Passover would bring the Pascal Lamb sacrifice). Spring and Passover B"H The Jewish month...
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Christmas and the Jewish Single
When I was young, we didn't live in a Jewish neighborhood and I went to Pubic School for Kindergarten. My teacher was a substitute teacher who made things very uncomfortable for me by not allowing me to tell my classmates about Hanukka. I felt very...
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Presidential Trivia Quiz
ב"ה I hope you love quizzes as much as I do!
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Shvat and Adar: The Jewish Months of Winter into Spring
Shvat is the month of the New Year for Trees and Adar is the month that is doubled in Jewish leap year.These two months usually occur in the winter in the United States. Though Shvat usually falls in the winter in the US, in Israel it's when the...
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The Jewish Month Kislev and Tevet -- Hanukka and Beyond
ב"ה Kislev is the month of Hanukka. It usually comes in the winter.
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Tishrei: The Month of (Jewish) Holidays and Heshvan: No Holidays
ב"ה Tishrei is the first calendar month on the Jewish Calendar. To start of the year, we have four different holidays -- Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shmini Atzeret/Simhat Tora.
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Fictional Witches Teaching Morality
B"H The Media lately seems to be a place where morality "goes by the wayside" so to speak. Where does morality shine in the media? Strangely enough, in the TV program Charmed and in the pages of the ultra-popular Harry Potter series of books. B"H ...
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The Jewish Calendar
ב"ה Many people find the Jewish calendar confusing.
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Hanuka, the Festival of Lights
ב"ה Hanuka, which is Hebrew for "rededication", commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Strong Biblical Women, Part 3: Rachel and Leah
B"H There are three Patriarchs and four Matriarchs in the Bible. That's because Yaakov (Jacob) had two wives. These two wives were sisters and their husband was their (first) cousin. When Yaakov upset his hunter brother Eisav (Esau) and had to...
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Creating New Recipes from Old
B"H Over the years -- I've been vegetarian for 35 years, 23 of those years as a vegan -- I have discovered, in order to have a large repertoire of vegetarian and vegan recipes, I needed to get recipes from non-vegetarian sources and adjust them to...
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Healthy Vegan Eating: Quick Cooking
ב"ה If you're new to healthy eating, start here.
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How Can We Appeal to G-d for Forgiveness?
ב"ה I wrote this article a number of years ago, but I think it's still meaningful.
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Want to go Veg? Here's how
Now that you have decided to take the plunge, I will give you some advice on substituting. I have managed to make recipes that contain meat, chicken, dairy, etc. into vegan recipes. I'll start off by giving you an example. Having a Vegetarian...
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Thinking of Going Veg? Start Here! (Part I)
Ok. So you have heard all the reports about eating a vegan diet. You have heard that it's a healthier way of eating. You have heard that vegans are much less prone to degenerative diseases. You have heard that osteoporosis is almost unknown in...
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Strong Biblical Women, Part 2
Rivka (Rebecca) was raised by a man who was a liar and a cheater but she was kind enough to bring water for Eliezer and his donkey. Eliezer, Avraham's (Abraham's) servant, was sent to find a bride for son Yitzhak (Isaac). When Eliezer got close, he...
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Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year)
B"H Rosh Hashana literally means the head of the year. It is the first day of the Jewish Year and the first day of the ten days of penitence. These ten days begin the Tishrei (first month of the Jewish Year, which usually coincides with September...
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Why be vegetarian
You hear about people being vegetarian, but until you actually hear about the reasons, you might not understand why people would give up meat. Interestingly enough, there are, for the most part, three separate levels of reason to examine -- Health...