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Binyamin Kagedan

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Sneakers on fast days: when spirit and letter collide
Binyamin Kagedan22.07.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: Adidas sneakers on display. Credit: Ken Banks via Wikimedia Commons.
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When is a Pentecost not a Pentecost?
Binyamin Kagedan25.05.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: A typical Western image of the Pentecost, by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Credit: Directmedia Publishing GmbH via Wikimedia Commons.
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What is the name ‘Purim’ all about?
Binyamin Kagedan19.02.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: A painting by Rembrandt of King Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther. Credit: Pushkin Museum via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Passover pop playlist
Binyamin Kagedan13.02.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: Lorde, whose song "Royals" makes the JNS.org Passover pop playlist. Credit: Kirk Stauffer via Wikimedia Commons.
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The delicate art of chuppah music
Binyamin Kagedan31.12.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: Binyamin Kagedan performs at a chuppah. Credit: Yuval Haber.
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Repurposing your lulav and etrog
Binyamin Kagedan18.09.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: Repurposing the etrog as b'samim (spices) for havdalah. Credit: David Komer for Shivimpanim.org
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Who were the Maccabees?
Binyamin Kagedan15.09.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: The painting "Maccabees," by Wojciech Stattler (1800–1875). Credit: Wojciech Stattler via Wikimedia Commons
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The Beatles, Spice Girls and Newsies find a place in your Hanukkah playlist
Binyamin Kagedan15.09.2013
The Beatles, pictured here waving to fans after arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in February 1964, makes the JNS.org Hanukkah playlist with "Eight Days A Week." Credit: Library of Congress.
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Online learning and social networking tools for 21st-century Jewish schools
Binyamin Kagedan22.07.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: An interactive map of the Middle East and Southwest Asia offered by ThingLink, which allows teachers to build a whole set of interactive multimedia experiences into a single image. ThingLink is among the latest cutting-edge online learning and social networking tools available for Jewish schools. Credit: ThingLink.
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Punt the pomegranate: Five seriously new fruits for Rosh Hashanah
Binyamin Kagedan26.06.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: The ackee. Credit: Jerome Walker via Wikimedia Commons.
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From the charts to your Machzor: Songs for the High Holidays
Binyamin Kagedan26.06.2013
Bryan Adams live at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany, on June 3, 2007. The heart-wrenching power of Adams’s voice in "Please Forgive Me" (No. 4 on the JNS.org High Holidays playlist) moves the listener like good chazzanut ought to, writes Binyamin Kagedan. Credit: Marco Maas via Wikimedia Commons.
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Tisha B’Av in the 21st century
Binyamin Kagedan17.06.2013
The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, oil on canvas, by Francesco Hayez. Both the first and second iterations of the "Beit HaMikdash" were razed on Tisha B'Av, hundreds of years apart. Credit: Francesco Hayez.
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Father’s Day—Bible style
Binyamin Kagedan30.05.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: An illustration of Elkanah and his two wives. In honor of Father’s Day 2013, JNS.org compiled some quick facts about some rather un-famous (though not all infamous) fathers of famous biblical characters, including Elkanah. Credit: Masters of Utrecht/Wikimedia Commons
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Menorah: History of a symbol
Binyamin Kagedan15.05.2013
A replica of the Jewish Temple's menorah, made by The Temple Institute in Israel. Credit: The Temple Institute, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem via Wikimedia Commons.
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Sidebar: Dreidel Fun-Facts
Binyamin Kagedan06.11.2012
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