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What Do Jews Do: The Series


Happy Easter to those who are reading WLST and celebrating Easter – they are not mutually exclusive.

As I’ve written before, I’ve walked the stations of the cross in Jerusalem and I went to a Catholic university. Most of my roommates were Catholic, though I had one who was a Unitarian and one of my closest friends at college was Episcopal. But I’ve had as much exposure to Easter as many Christians – more than some and, of course, less than others. For example, for all the reasons why we remember Tim Russo, my favorite memory is when I learned from him about the butter lamb. How I’d lived life up until then without knowing of that tradition, I will never know. Gloria Ferris and a few others also educated me on the butter lamb.

If you don’t know about butter lambs or other holidays and their traditions, Cleveland freelance writer, Sandy Mitchell appears to be the webmistress of a new blog called All Holiday Cafe. She’s already posted my take on Purim, but also a collection of links to What Do Jews Do items from the past which you can find here.

If you are interested in learning about how a pretty secular Jew who grew up Reform, went to a Catholic school, participated in two Methodist Church missions, spent a year in Israel, taught on a kibbutz and in a Connecticut Reform Sunday school, only to end up meeting her husband at one of the largest conservative synagogues in the country and wind up on the board of a conservative synagogue (not to mention class speaker for the synagogue’s first graduating class from its leadership institute) incorporates religion into her life, then you might find any one of these entries interesting in addition to the ones Sandy lists, in chronological order from the oldest to the newest:

Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur 2005:

What Do Jews Do All Day

Luckshies, Bubbelah

What Jews do Part III

Chanuka 2005 (these have a lot of photos)

A Very Zimon Chanuka

O Chanuka O Chanuka Come Light the Menorah

On the Third Night of Chanuka

Shabbaton 2006

A Congregational Bloggaton

Passover 2006

What Do Jews Do, Passover: I can’t make the crunch, I’ll make the crunch

A Tale of Two Seders

What do Jews Do: Passover, Part V

Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom Haatzmaut 2006

This is about Selichot – which is a period of days before Rosh Hashana when you start the new year and atonement process – these are both from 2006:

Who Knew Barbie’s a Jew Coming to a synagogue near you

Shabbat 2006

Thoughts for Shabbat (***Shabbat is celebrated every single week, from sunset to sunset, Friday to Saturday; this entry is just one that I wrote about that experience)

Chanuka 2006

My Lights are Better Than Your Lights

Bar Mitzvah

Bar Mitzvah 2007

Rosh Hashana 2007

What do Jews do….Rosh Hashana 2007

And, if you’ve ever wondered what Jews do on secular holidays or the holidays observed by American Christians:

The Day Before Christmas 2005

Christmas 2005

New Years 2005

Easter 2007

Thanksgiving 2007

There are many other posts in which I talk about Judaism, based on my experiences and choices for how to express it. You can use the new Lijit search tool in the right-hand sidebar if you’d like to find all the places where I’ve mentioned Jews and Judaism.

Have a lovely Easter – the weather at least is cooperating.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:46 am March 23rd, 2008 in Culture, Jewish, Judaism, Religion, Writing 

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  1. 1 links for 2008-03-25 | The BFD on Brewed Fresh Daily on March 25th, 2008 3:23 am

    [...] What Do Jews Do: The Series An excellent and informative series from Jill Miller Zimon at WritesLikeSheTalks.com. Probably why her site crashed… (tags: spirituality) [...]

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