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Re-Greening Sukkot
(Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot)I love sukkot, but one of the things that has always frustrated me about ...
Food porn.
Earlier today, Tamar called out the Hasidic community in Williamsburg for, well, defacing advertisements for restaurants that are seen as ...
Yom Kippur does the mind and body good.
In my previous post on holiday rankings, I talked about how Yom Kippur, if nothing else, is a great time ...
Kugels and Chulent Only!
Over at Jewlicious Y-Love alerts us to a bizarre new modesty issue in the haredi community: an unnecessarily wide variety ...
Angelina Jolie Stars In: The Bible
There’s a new Bible on the market, and while it doesn’t have the awesome JPS translation going for it, it ...
Official Holiday Rankings
There sure are a lot of Jewish holidays this season. I happen to be lucky and work for a Jewish ...
Food Fight
According to the L.A. Times, Lebanon is planning to sue the nation of Israel in international court because, in their ...
Decorating A Sukkah
Now having lived in our house for just about a year, my husband and I are building our first sukkah. ...
Einstein in the Archives
Most people think science, physics, or crazy hair upon hearing the name of Albert Einstein. But I’m always reminded how ...
Children and the High Holidays
As part of my job as a staff member for my synagogue’s youth group, I helped our high school students ...
Racey Ad
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is an old-school organization in the very best sense. It’s BIG (the largest ...
Say It Ain’t So
Please please please please please say this isn’t true.An anti-Semitic blog is claiming that Sarah Palin is *gasp* Jewish.Normally, you ...
Celebrate Yom Kippur With Jewish Athletes
For reasons that aren’t totally clear to me InGameNow decided to take Yom Kippur as an opportunity to list their ...
A Fancy Chabadnik
In this week’s Forward, Dani Shapiro writes about an experience that most of us have experienced. I was pushing my ...
A Shark’s Tale 2: The New Testament
So it turns out it’s not impossible. According to the recently published edition of the Journal of Fish Biology, there ...