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Fine Art that glorifies gatherings and celebrations of Judaism. Living the religion, praying with the heart, caring for each other, feeling intensely Jewish... these are signs that together we are...
We love to adorn our homes with holy words, sanctifying the sacred hours when our home transforms into a private Temple where we glorify the Holy One through rituals, Hebrew songs, prayers and...
Visual Midrash creates a powerful emotional connection to Judaism, Jewish texts, and Jewish life. A Midrash explores the hidden meanings of a Biblical text then extrapolates to some often...
Our rich and ancient Hebrew language speaks volumes with a single word. Artists respond to the Jewish ideals contained within Hebrew words with visual stories, both abstract and figurative. ...
Jewish Life dances on the earth, filling the world with laughter and song, friendship and family, flowers and fruits, festive meals and sacred gatherings. The Holy Land of Israel, known fondly as...
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Known as the "Maven of Mishkon" in his hometown of Venice, California, Marvin's stories will delight, amaze and enlighten you. Thr only thing more compelling than Marvin's writings is Marvin himself - he is one of these larger-than-life people who appears to have lived several adventurous lives simultaneously. He is honestly the only person we know who is a decorated Marine, photojournalist, prize winning novelist and screenwriter, observant Jew and artist who also knows what the inside of a Korean prison looks like. Marvin is a treasure, and we are proud to host him on Creative Jewish Living.
A collection of Stories and Midrashim as well as Essays on language and narrative (especially as they relate to Torah). Alon's combination of irreverant wit and mystical vision lends fresh perspective to familiar Bible stories and everyday language.
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Easy to Shop For At secular Israeli Weddings, it is customary to give only money instead of gifts, so that the couple can create their home together. Orthodox couples are often presented with a library of religious...
A Cold-Hearted Man (Kindness) The Talmud records that a certain man was passing by a slaughterhouse when a terrified lamb escaped and sought refuge under his cloak. The man kicked the lamb away, saying to the animal, “Go and...
An Everyday Miracle Every person’s heart contains a tiny jar of oil, sealed with the Holy Seal. This tiny jar of oil contains all our hope, compassion, love and joy. It seems like such a tiny jar could not sustain us...
A Short Stay In Paradise According to a Jewish legend, Adam and Chava (Eve) were created just as Shabbat was beginning. They ate the forbidden fruit on Shabbat afternoon, and were expelled from the Garden right after...
“Hear O Israel….” “What’s inside that thing on your doorway?” is a question we are asked often by curious friends as we reach up and touch our hand-made mezuzzah. The answer is a tiny little scroll containing the...
Jewish Parenting Welcome to the inaugural issue of Creative Jewish Living Magazine. When we looked about for a subject for our first issue one idea presented itself as obvious: Jewish Parenting. We'd been writing...
The World to Come - A Dream Vision In 1994, I visited the Olam Ha'Baah (World to Come), if only in a dream and only for an instant. Here is my recounting of that dream vision, only days after the dream.
Interfaith Wedding Guide A wedding cements the relationship between two individuals and two families. Sometimes a wedding also brings together two (or more) different religions and cultures. The choices you make in...
The Jewish Wedding The traditional Jewish wedding contains many ritual moments and events that begin before the wedding ceremony and continue even after the ceremony ends. Modern and traditional Jewish couples...
All for One and One for All Jonas Goldstein teaches his son the essence of brotherly love and shares this teaching with his community as they gather to honor Avi's bar mitzvah: All for One and One for All!
Being an Artist welcome to being an artist, with more questions than answers, more love than hate, more feelings than thoughts; finding the balance and direction is just the way life is. you ARE in the flow. that's...
Sheryl Zohn Interview Alon Yehuda Kaplan interviews Sheryl Zohn, the Emmy- and WGA Award-nominated Writer and Supervising Producer for the Showtime’s Penn & Teller comedy documentary series. Sheryl has also written...
Interview with Rob Kutner Alon Yehuda Kaplan interviews Emmy-Award-Winning "Daily Show" writer, best-selling author, soon-to-be father, and all-around-hyphenate, Rob Kutner.
The Call What do you do when you get a phone call from your 29 year old son to talk to you about an offer from a TV show he was dying to get? What else do you do but be the best parent you can be by staying...
Furnishing Our Spiritual Home Parenting Coach and creator of Wisdomology.com, Lauren Rosenfeld, shares her thoughts about creating a home that is filled with the Divine Presence.
Antique Roadshow Junky Family Heirlooms come from many sources but they all have a set of qualities in common. They are unique, hand-crafted, made with love, unmistakably the work of their creator. And most importantly,...
Why Aramaic? In the lobby of his local library, a Man begins speaking Biblical Hebrew to author, Alon kaplan.
Funny, you don't look like a Jewish story Alon Kaplan wonders why so many "Jewish Stories" begin with sentences like "once there was a poor peddler named Moishe" and offers suggestions about how to move beyond the narrative "shtetyl" while...
Baggage, Luggage, Shleppage Alon Kaplan is in on the birth of a new Yiddish slang word, coined by the son of a Presbytarian Minister.
Letting Down Your Hair (and your Readers) The flattening out of Narrative has been going on for a long time in Jewish storytelling, specifically in the way that our midrashim (extrabiblical stories) deal with the twin brothers, Jacob and...
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