Celebrate

Sephardic Traditions Make My Brain Hurt

Being home for Passover has brought back a couple of memories from my past life. For one, Canada is cold. ...

The best part of the Daily Show’s coverage of the White House seder, may be John Stewart’s admission that most ...

I get frustrated with the Jewish world pretty much every day, but I have never in my life thought, “You ...

It is well established that my family is as dorky as it gets when it comes to languages and linguistics, ...

I got a confession. Every year, it takes me approximately two days to forget to count the Omer. And that’s ...

I went over to Open Source Haggadah (an awesome resource for creating your own Haggadah) and grabbed the basic Haggadah ...

Counting the Omer is a pretty random mitzvah for those of us who wouldn’t otherwise count down the days to ...

Using Passover as an opportunity to go green.

During Passover, there’s a custom to not even mention the word “bread.” This might just be a Hasidic custom, one ...

My dad’s name is Herb. Well Herbert to be accurate. But you can call him Herb.These leads to the same ...

The New Moon is a symbol of the feminine, and a time when all creatures will come together to praise God.

Here at MJL we were working hard all morning until we were just interrupted by some loud Jewish music and ...