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Mah Rabu has been nominated for Best Jewish Religious Blog in the Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards. If you got here for the first time, here are some highlighted religious-themed posts from the last year for your perusal.

Nominated separately for Best Religious Series (voting starts next week):

• Hilchot Pluralism

Independent Jewish communities:

• Take me to the round church, where echoes resound and my spirit is found
• You Kant always get what you want
• When it rains, it pours
• Bait and switch
• Why they're wrong
• Bovine sabbath
  

Jewish holidays:

• The one-day yom tov person's guide to the second seder
• The omer series
• Why I'm benching lulav this Shabbat
• Mei'Hodu ve'ad Kush
  
• Everything under the sun is in tune
  

Prayer:

• Self-sufficient prayer
• Just and rightful authority
  
• Meme!!1!
• Creation revelation redemption
  

Torah:

• Leviticus 18:22 according to Rabbi Ishmael
• Thy rod and thy staff
• A long-expected party
  

Ideology and halacha:

• My soul hates your new moons and your seasons
• Limmud NY Reform halakhah panel
• Limmud NY Reform halakhah panel: DVD extras
• Award: Best use of a physics analogy in a halakhic or metahalakhic teshuvah
  

Ritual practice:

• Cars trucks buses
• Jewish continuity
• Look back on those days when my life was a haze