“Oh, You’ve Got All Those Days Off!” How to Navigate Work and Jewish Holiday Observance

Ah…the fall chagim. When everyone (including you) eventually starts to get tired of hearing, “it’s a holiday again.” This is especially problematic in the school and workplace.    When you become an orthodox Jew, you suddenly have a lot of holidays. Holidays that involve you not working, not driving, not answering your phone or emails,

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Word of the Day: Hefker

Hefker is a “term of art” in the Talmud, as we say in the legal world. That means it’s a word with a very precise meaning that may not line up exactly with how it’s used colloquially; not a word to throw around lightly. You mean exactly what it says. For instance, trespassing has a

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