Celebrate

I could never have anticipated the impact that reading Perek Daled (chapter four) of Megillat Esther would have on my ...

Judaism has been a part of my life since I was born. My mother snuck Shabbat candles into the hospital ...

This blog post was written shortly after Purim 2013. If you’re reading megillah this year and need help learning the ...

This piece was submitted on Friday, January 31, 2014. The event took place on Sunday, January 26.—When a couple gets ...

I am a person who puts on, or “lays,” tefillin (phylacteries). I happen to be female. While my gender, to ...

There’s a not-so-funny joke that goes, “A man walks into a Chinese restaurant and says to the waiter, ‘Excuse me ...

It was some 30 years ago that President Reagan signed into law and established a new federal holiday: The Reverend ...

Gilad and I welcomed our baby girl into the world on January 1st. Sivan Amali Shwartz arrived just in time ...

In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...

Tu Bishvat, which begins tonight, is the fourth new year of the Jewish calendar. Beginning as  a tax holiday for ...

What’s the first Jewish holiday we’ll be welcoming in the secular New Year of 2014 (besides Shabbat, of course)? Tu ...