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(Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot)I love sukkot, but one of the things that has always frustrated me about ...

Earlier today, Tamar called out the Hasidic community in Williamsburg for, well, defacing advertisements for restaurants that are seen as ...

So it turns out it’s not impossible.  According to the recently published edition of the Journal of Fish Biology, there ...

During Yom Kippur services this year, I came up with the best praying strategy I’ve ever had, I think. It’s ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly haunted.It might just be my social awkwardness speaking (because, really, when’s the ...

Answer us, God, on this day of fasting, because we are in great pain. This morning, when I read the ...

Oh, yeah — we hit it again. Two parking tickets this morning, and one’s more than $100. Man, this Rosh ...

The idea of repentance always fills me with performance anxiety. Most of it’s due to the prayer service, which starts ...

Or, just reason #1 to avoid McDonalds. Karen Hanrahan, a health and wellness consultant, bought this hamburger in 1996. (The ...

Because everybody loves a Saturday night….The night before last, all over the world, Jews began saying Selichot, the confessional prayers ...

Confession time: I grew up a Conservative Jew, and although I’m Orthodox now — or Hasidic, or Biala, or hairy, ...

This past Wednesday night, Rabbi Dov Linzer, the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah spoke at NYU’s L’SHMA Lecture Series ...