Mixed Multitudes
Legalize Mezuzot!
Rep. Jerrold Nadler is asking Congress to pass a law to allow Jews to hang a mezuzah on the door ...
Move Over Tina Fey. Palin vs. Clinton has hit another level.
Update: Approximately an hour after I wrote this piece, Sarah Palin was disinvited from the rally.Is Hillary Clinton Obama’s running ...
Jewish Treasures in the Attic
Everyone has tzochkes around their house. Some more than others. One of the things I’ve inherited over the years from ...
Rosh Hashanah Dinner Challenge
Our friends over at The Jew & the Carrot are holding a contest to see who can create the greenest ...
Glam Doilies
Confession time: I grew up a Conservative Jew, and although I’m Orthodox now — or Hasidic, or Biala, or hairy, ...
Maybe Barack Obama is Jewish.
Today’s Jewel of Elul is written by Barack Obama. Need we say more?Just as the courageous Zionists who established the ...
I Asked You Once, I Asked You Twice…
Maurice Sendak, one of the greatest authors of our time, is turning 80–and, according to the New York Times, is ...
Review: NYC International Pickle Day
I wrote last Friday about how excited I was to go to the Pickle Festival on the Lower East Side.On ...
Getting Your Rosh Hashanah On
Not to alarm you or anything, but the High Holidays are coming up. My fam and I haven’t figured out ...
Education in Israel
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist movement in Zionism, has been excluded from the list of 100 personages studied ...