Mixed Multitudes

Apparently some guy was walking around downtown Jerusalem and he found a bag with almost a million shekels in it. ...

Nora Rubel, author of the recently published Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination, will be blogging ...

Dara Horn, whose astonishing book All Other Nights was just released in paperback, is a big fan of the Czech ...

When I was a kid, the worst week of the year was the week before Passover. My mom would stop ...

A few days after my mother died I called T-mobile to cancel her line and to have the family plan ...

“Rabbi Yehiel maintained that he had learnt from his teachers never to worry about two things–what can be corrected and ...

Late last year, I finally got around to reading A.J. Jacobs’ Year of Living Biblically. One thing that stuck out ...

Yesterday I blogged about my friend Mat, who’d suddenly decided to bake his own last-minute matzah for Passover. This morning, ...

By now, most of us are elbow grease-deep in cleaning our houses for Passover, and getting ready to make that ...

I am still holding out for a holiday where we’re required to enjoy four cups of good whiskey, but until ...