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Today’s Jewel of Elul from Craig and Co. is by Jerome Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a ...

With the beginning of Elul (duly noted by Lili earlier today) our friends over at Craig and Co. have unveiled ...

This is my first Elul as a mother, but not my first as a daughter. WOW do I have a ...

Today is Tu B’av, the Jewish “Valentine’s Day.” Tu B’Av, the 15th Day of Av, is both an ancient and ...

Cantillation or trope has always mesmerized me. I know of no other religion that has a similar system for chanting ...

The fast day of Tisha B’av begins tonight. Like Yom Kippur, this fast lasts a full 26 hours. Argh. I ...

Tomorrow, Independence Day, is important for American Jews, but it is not only our freedom we should be celebrating.On July ...

Reaching for your morning coffee? Think again! Today is the 17th of Tammuz, a minor fast day.Today’s fast commemorates the ...

I’m currently in Vienna as part of a delegation of (youngish) Jews from New York. The trip is being organized ...

For one holiday out of the year, we take a break from feasting on meat and move over to the ...

Today is Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), which celebrates the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem. Click here to listen to the actual ...