Mixed Multitudes

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My Favorite Macaroon

As of this morning, Wikipedia defines “macaroon” as “a variety of light, baked confections, described as either small cakes or ...

On Being Stalked by Crazy Folks

On Monday, Goldie Goldbloom wrote about why she’s totally going to be excommunicated (hint: She’s a Chasidic Jew who just ...

Preparing for Passover: Keep it Simple

When Passover approaches, it seems like everyone in the Jewish community goes a little bit (or more than a little ...

Dara Horn’s “All Other Nights”: Freedom and Slavery

Dara Horn has never been a writer who shies away from strong imagery. Her first novel, In the Image, features ...

The Newest Member of the JDL

Fine, it’s unfair to associate Ron Artest with Meir Kahane. But what else would you call his new hairdo? Obviously, ...

Music+Pie

Some combinations are so divine, so utterly brilliant, it seems inconceivable that the two things ever existed separately: Chocolate and ...

Passover Contest: Best Seder Ever

What’s your best Passover story? It can be a horror story about Passover cleaning, or the story of how your ...

The Seven Roads to Hell (or: Dante’s Inferno adapted for Chassidic Jews)

Goldie Goldbloom is the author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, a novel about Italian prisoners of war in ...

Finding God Through Non-Jewish Music

Last week in my review of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer’s book, Empowered Judaism, I wrote about how I’ve never had the ...

Best of the Week

Can you smell it? It’s not right in front of me, but I can definitely smell it from the distance. ...

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