Leiv Esther reviewed MikvahCalendar, a new website for married Jewish women who use or want to use the mikveh. You can specify whether you prefer the customs of Chabad, YU/Rabbi Willig, or “choose from available options.” The site looks easy to use, but I could do without the flowery copy: “May divine blessings of spiritual and material well-being continue to rain down and permeate your marriage and your home.”

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This prayer of the SheLa”h is supposed to be said by parents before Rosh Chodesh Sivan (new month of Sivan) this Sunday.  Yesterday and today were the days to say it, as prayers making specific requests are usually not said on Shabbat. If you know of another translation, please send it along.

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Today is Erev Pesach (the day before Passover), the busiest day in the Jewish calendar filled with halachic and practical tasks to eliminate all chametz (unleavened bread) from our homes and prepare for the Seder tonight. This year we also commemorate an event that takes place once every 28 years.

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The secular newspapers like to report on the weekly talks of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leading rabbinic arbiter of the Sephardi/Mizrachi community in Israel. Occasionally he says outrageous things, but this time he made a ruling likely to please a more liberal readership.

Read more on Rabbi Ovadia’s Surprising Ruling: Women Can Read Megillah for Men…

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See below for background information and glossary.

Commenter Abbi sent me her response to a discussion about prayer for girls in a
mixed school. Should girls pray in the minyan alongside the boys, or as a separate group? What should be our goals for educating girls about tefilla and minyan, given that most grown Orthodox women will not attend a minyan, especially during the early childbearing years?

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List Updated April 5, 2009.

B”H Several IDF Soldiers and Israeli Civilians  are feeling better
and their names have been taken off the list of injured.

The injured listed are in long-term rehabilitation and still  need
our prayers and Psalms said on their behalf for a refuah shelaima–a complete recovery.

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My friend Masha Faygel is putting together her annual Shavuot Tehillimthon. When you register, you can choose the project you want to support and include names of people for the prayer list. See here for more details.

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According to the secretary at Yeshiva Letzeirim, the high school next to the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, most of the injured have been released to complete their recuperation at home. Baruch Hashem.

The names of the two students still hospitalized are:

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Please pray for the injured in yesterday’s horrific attack at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav (our shul sent out a list that included the middle names; I hadn’t seen them anywhere else):

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