Celebrate
What Happens Then?
Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...
Friday the 31st
It’s Halloween. Its Shabbas. What’s a good Jew to do?Hand out challah rolls? Dress as the Sabbath bride?JTA has an ...
Impurim
San Francisco, for all that city’s rent chaos and interweb madness, still has one of the most productive, experimental, and ...
Noah, Meet Youtube.
G-dcast has been going off the hook lately. First there was the wave of Jewish blogs raving, then the Gigaom ...
Healing Havdalah
What are you up to on November 8? Depending who you are, either celebrating, stewing, or plotting revenge against fraudulent ...
Usher(s) Make Love (to Torah) in this Club
This was my third year in a row on the Upper West Side for Simchat Torah. I guess it has ...
It’s a slow month in the Jewish non-profit world
Not that complaining (don’t tell me boss…too late).Back when I was at McGill, I was exposed to the horrors of ...
“Your God Will Understand”
There’s a little world of difference between Australia and Brooklyn. Here in New York, pretty much every Gentile knows when ...
Sukkah Chasers
One of our new articles at MyJewishLearning, Celebrating Sukkot without a Sukkah, is a lavishly creative and thoroughly detailed exploration ...
Sukkot Poll
Matthue wrote an interesting piece the other day talking about his search for an etrog But not everyone (myself included) ...
Rebbe Nachman Is Alive and Well and Living Inside Us
Today is the yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov — who, on our site, earns the epigraph The Man who ...
Etrog!!!
You’d think an etrog in Hasidic Brooklyn would be easy to find.After all, when I lived in San Francisco (Jewish ...