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Jan 14, 2025 | 
newscentermaine.com | Adina Allen
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Things To Do for the week of January 14 through January 20.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
jta.org | Adina Allen
This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge. To sign up to receive Recharge each week in your inbox, click here. As the only child of a Jewish father and mother who had converted to Judaism before I was born, our annual family trips to visit my Italian and Irish Catholic relatives for Christmas were among the highlights of my year.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
lilith.org | Adina Allen
Moses received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the Men of the Great Assembly. (Pirke Avot 1:1) This, state the traditional texts, is where our Torah comes from, through a lineage of male, intellectual inheritance. To be sure, this lineage is part of the life-blood of tradition. We need the learning of our fathers. But the Torah itself reminds us: the Torah of our fathers is not sufficient.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Adina Allen
My book, The Place of All Possibility, is about cultivating creativity through ancient Jewish wisdom, reframing the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Putting spiritual wisdom in conversation with contemporary disciplines of art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research, The Place of All Possibility is for all people — from any tradition or none — who want to seed a world of imagination, abundance, and joy.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Adina Allen
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
jta.org | Adina Allen
This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge. To sign up to receive Recharge each week in your inbox, click here. In the midst of summer’s long light-filled days, we find ourselves at a time in the Jewish calendar called the Three Weeks, a period of collective grief that culminates on Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, the fast day commemorating a litany of historic Jewish losses.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
myjewishlearning.com | Adina Allen
In the midst of summer’s long light-filled days, we find ourselves at a time in the Jewish calendar called the Three Weeks, a period of collective grief that culminates on Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, the fast day commemorating a litany of historic Jewish losses. In Hebrew, this period is known as bein hametzarim (“between the straits”).
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
hadassahmagazine.org | Margalit Fox |Gila Pfeffer |Hasia R. Diner |Adina Allen
Email Print The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime BossBy Margalit Fox (Random House)Journalist Margalit Fox brings to vivid life a storied figure largely unknown today: A Jewish woman who was one of the most infamous underworld criminal leaders in 19th century New York City.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
myjewishlearning.com | Adina Allen
In these difficult days, freedom and liberation can feel far out of reach. And yet, we are about to welcome Passover, the holiday that celebrates both these things. How might we meet these themes in a way that feels real and authentic in this moment? Traditionally, words are central to the observance of Passover. “And you shall tell your child on that day,” we read in Exodus.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
myjewishlearning.com | Adina Allen
There are multiple new years in the Jewish tradition. In the fall, on Rosh Hashanah, we reflect on the year that has passed and release what no longer serves us. In the spring, we connect to the power of radical change and liberation on Passover. And in late winter, we honor the more-than-human world with the celebration of Tu Bishvat, the new year of the trees, which we marked this past week.
