Mixed Multitudes

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...

Only a few days ago I finished saying Kaddish, and today was the day my mother would have turned 56. ...

How was everyone’s fast? Mine was yummy. Thanks for asking (Okay, I fasted. I promise).We’ve had a good week here ...

Chana Rachel Frumin is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Narrative Family Therapy Institute, where she is a marriage ...

I mean, who can blame the guy, right? Judd Apatow, promoting his new film, Funny People (Which I’m so confused ...

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.In hip-hop, Soce the Elemental Wizard is as self-aware as it gets. Not that you ...

A man is unable to marry because the Israeli Rabbinate decides that he is actually an adoptee, although there is ...

It’s the time of year when the Jewish calendar turns to love–Tu B’Av (which falls on August 5th this year). ...

The rabbis told this story: In a certain place there was a lizard which used to injure people. They came ...

In her last blogs, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about some of her favorite books.In the months preceding its publication, Jean ...

There are so many stories in the Bible that I (among many people) have a hard time believing as truth.A ...

In a few hours we begin mourning the destruction of the Temple. Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day of ...