Mixed Multitudes
Dessert Hummus?! What is the World Coming To?
I love hummus. I really do. I had some this morning for breakfast. I will probably have some with dinner. ...
I Probably Won’t Be A Farmer
Being an etrog farmer must be a tough job, especially in this economy. You know, because your product is only ...
How Does Ice Cream Become Kosher?
Paul Nasrani is the owner of Adirondack Creamery, a New York State ice cream company that uses local labor and ...
The Week That Was
I can’t wait for the weekend! I have all these great things planned! I’m going to a movie on Sunday ...
Kappara: A Poem
Just in case you forgot, our recent Bad Poetry Contest netted us a vast and diverse — if not encyclopedic ...
10 Days to a Better You: Days 7-10
With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...
Wise Fridays: Do-It-Yourself Inscribing
“Inscribe us in the Book of Life.†This must be understood in a spiritual sense. When a man clings to ...
Ahmadin-A-Palooza II
This week’s UN Summit means a lot of things for a lot of people. For some, it is a chance ...
Return of the Brooklyn Chickens
I still have mixed feelings about KaparotOn one hand, the pre-Yom Kippur ritual where we transfer our sins onto some ...
Sukkot On the Run
One thing I’ve always wondered about the holiday of Sukkot: If the makeshift tabernacles that we’re commanded to erect are ...