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On Cinco de Mayo: Jews on the edge of Tequila
Sipping margaritas, doing shots of tequila, listening mariachi music and dancing the hora.Not in a million years would I have ...
Anticipating Tiferet she’b’Tiferet
Almost eight years ago, on the evening of April 22nd, after a full day of labor, my husband Rick and ...
Marching Towards Freedom With The Omer
We often flow unaware from one moment on the calendar to the next. There are too many times where we ...
L’Shana Habah…at a Restaurant?!
This week Jon Stewart called for the Jews to “take it up a notch” since our traditions couldn’t possibly compete ...
The blessings of a mixed multitude
A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...
Teaching the Four Sons in the 21st Century
We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...
The Lost Afikoman
Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian and the author of Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale Of A White Boy ...
A multicultural view of Passover eating
Every year I get a call from my mother, “Remind me again, do we eat peanuts on Passover?”This question should ...
Springtime as Freedom-Time
Is it mere coincidence that the Jewish festival of Passover, beginning this Friday eve, April 6th, falls in the early ...
Passover for Non-Bolivians (and a Recipe!)
By now, most people have heard of quinoa, the superfood. With plenty of fiber, protein and vitamins it sounds like a ...
Into the Conversation
I was recently in an awkward social situation. My husband and I were invited to dinner at the home of ...
Jonathan Safran Foer on the Haggadah
It seems like the whole world is afire with Jonathan Safran Foer’s new haggadah, which he’s been planning since at ...