At first glance it might seem like the Shabbos table of any Chasidic home. The candles are lit. At the edge of the table lies a colored parsha page from a pre-school child and a list of farher questions for the seven-year-old. The smell of steaming cholent wafts in from the kitchen. But some...
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January 17, 2010
By Shulem Deen
Tags: camaraderie, cholent, kishke, non-Jews, shabbos, songs
Posted in Essays, First Person, Off the Derech | 25 Comments »
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