April 2011

Wise Fridays: Matzah and Moral Corruption

“The ban on leaven during the Passover week signifies that national liberation also involves moral and spiritual rejuvenation and must ...

The Best Thing I Read This Pesach

If you don’t have enough to do this Passover, let us help — you can read some erotic poetry, learn about ...

Things I Found Cleaning for Passover This Year

Listerine that expired in 2007 A set of acne medications prescribed to someone no one in my apartment had ever ...

Liveblogging Passover

The holiday of Passover starts at sunset tonight, right? Not really. In our household, Passover started about a month ago ...

Waste on Passover

I have always been a Passover hater. There aren’t that many of us, but what we lack in numbers we ...

Best of the Week

Going on vacation for all of Passover (remember this holiday is dedicated to the Moses family) so find other things ...

Wise Fridays: Once We Were Slaves

“Once we were slaves in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out from there with a mighty hand and an ...

Righting Wrongs

Ealier this week, Austin Ratner wrote about Hillel sandwiches and patricide, photography, and Audrey Hepburn. His first book, The Jump Artist, is the ...

True Pluralism in Passover Videos

Oh yay. For all of those sick of boy band-themed Passover parodies and Kanye- and Pink-themed Passover parodies and other ...

Seder Supplements All Around

I’m not dreading the seders this year quite as much as I usually do, though I’m confident they’ll still be ...