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by Judy Shapiro
Ever wonder about customs in a Shiva house; talk about
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the deceased, ignore the mourner, behave like it’s a party? Customs exist and one should familiarize oneself to be considerate while in the mourner’s home.
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by Aviva Lavi, Judy Shapiro
A devoted bike rider, Aviva Lavi registered to do a
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half-ironman in the “Challenge-Denmark” and in spite of setbacks along the way, started the race. Unfortunately, an accident hospitalized her, but she is full of spirit and hopes to get back on her bike for the next big race.
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by Judy Shapiro
Face-off with a cop. Judy Shapiro finds “a different
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mindset,” as she argues with a cop about a familiar road that was suddenly off limits. Tempers flared as she refused to accept this new law, but she learned something about herself as well.
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by Judy Shapiro
The practice within the Jewish tradition of assigning
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mystical meanings to words or phrases based on their numerical value is explained by Judy Shapiro in ESRA and Gematria. Citing the Talmud and Midrash, she states that by reading words and sentences as numbers, they can be compared to other words and phrases of the same value.
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Judy Shapiro