Adding "om" to the tradition
Lauren Mikalov
It's hard to believe that while growing up, Hinda Gestetner did not enjoy Hebrew school and eventually rejected her bat mitzvah. Today Gestetner, an Orthodox Jew in Monsey, who only discovered religion in her late teens, helps bring the Torah's wisdom closer to other women who want to learn.
And she's doing it the way it worked for her -- through meditation. more
And she's doing it the way it worked for her -- through meditation. more
In the summer 2010 issue of The Rockland Jewish Reporter
- Q&A
- Editor's notebook
- Standing strong for Israel
- Campaign update
- Teachers transform us
- Federation celebrates the year end: hero, new officers named
- American Jewish music takes stage in JCC series
- Kashrut "big-box store"-style
- Rockland residents rally for Israel
- A Holocaust lesson in reel time: Albertus Magnus pursues Shoah education
- One-on-one: New community emissary to bring Israeli flavor to Rockland
- Grazing on a green agenda
- RJR essay contest winner
- NCJC hires a new rabbi
- Torah Solutions
- Photo gallery
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In the June 2010 edition of The Rockland Jewish Reporter
- Q&A
- Editor's notebook
- A year to be proud
- A gift that counts
- Forming Jewish identity
- Survivors, programs make Holocaust real for students
- First leadership program dubbed a success
- Israeli doctor brings message of repairing the world
- Federation to honor educators
- NCJC revamps religious school with hands-on learning
- Forums to examine threats to Israel
- Annual run goes to the dogs
- An unusual stop in the Israel itinerary
- Annual event to honor longtime supporters
- Torah Solutions
- JCC Israel trip makes connection
- Local hero, veteran writes first book
- CSI to break ground for expansion
- JCC takes top appointment, awards at national convention
- Simchas
Performing Tahara, the Ultimate Kindness
Mayer Waxman
NEW YORK (JTA) -- To describe the dead body that lay before me at my first tahara, the simple word "real" seems most appropriate. A tahara is the traditional Jewish cleansing performed on a body before burial.
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