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YEAR END REPORT: FISCAL YEAR 2009
August 15, 2010
Abstract: YEAR END REPORT: FISCAL YEAR 2009

Open the Door
April 7, 2009
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YEAR END REPORT: FISCAL YEAR 2008
July 1, 2008
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Ten Tips For Seder 2008
April 15, 2008
Abstract: Ten easy tips for spicing up your seder 2008!

Eight Storahtelling Highlights for Chanukah 2007
November 29, 2007
Abstract: As we celebrate eight nights of bright light this Chanukah, Storahtelling is thrilled to spotlight eight bright highlights and success stories.. read on..

You Are Here Now
October 25, 2007
Abstract: Can a world torn by religious wars, nurtured by a rich past, and focused on a better future learn how to use the legends of our story maps to navigate us to the promised lands of our human aspirations? It can.

FINAL CUT: CIRCUMCISING EGYPT
January 29, 2007
Abstract: This essay was published by Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (www.jewishmosaic.org), as part of their ongoing series of weekly essays on the Torah.
Is circumcision as the defining moment of the Exodus? Focusing on the requirement in Parashat Bo that after the Exodus only men who have been circumcised may partake of the Passover meat offering, Lau-Lavie writes “After years of repression, the Hebrews (like the LGBT community) are thrilled to celebrate a proud, segregated existence—not because they are forced to, but because they finally can…circumcision is instructed here as a necessary tool for differentiating racial/national identity, it also shows up here as a startling symbol, a final cut with life in Egypt and a first step towards Hebrew identity.”

Summer Summary from Amichai
September 5, 2006
Abstract: June 30th marks the final day of Storahtelling's seventh season of operation. This is an excellent opportunity to pause, take stock, and appreciate Storahtelling's success in the world.

Creation vs. Evolution
June 27, 2006
Abstract: 'Once upon a time, 5,766 years ago, the world was created, or so the sacred story goes. Fact, fiction - or the fusion of both?'

50 nights/70 faces (Dis)counting the Omer
May 16, 2006
Abstract: 'There are seventy faces to torah: turn it around and around and its all there.' (Midrash)