Mixed Multitudes

There’s a famous Jewish text called the Kuzari, written by Judah HaLevi. In it, the king of the Khazars has ...

Mystery writer Faye Kellerman has been good friends with fellow Los Angeles-residents Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker for nearly 25 ...

Much attention has been given to the use of “gray water,” but there are many different forms of gray water, ...

In the winter, there’s nothing I like more than huddling around a table in a warm kitchen with good friends, ...

The excellent David Keesey — guitarist, singer, and all-around huggable dude — is playing tonight at Webster Hall with one ...

I tend to think of Richard Dawkins as slightly deranged, but I respect his right to have an opinion. I ...

Shifra Shomron’s novel Grains of Sand: The Fall of Neve Dekalim tells the story of Efrat, a teenage girl living ...

All the words have been given by a single Shepherd … so you build many chambers in your heart and ...

Today is the 17th of Tammuz, the day when five big catastrophes happened in Judaism:* Moses smashed the original Ten ...

I’m getting very very close to the end of the 11 months of saying Kaddish for my mother, and I ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, claims Rahel Elior, do not constitute a lost Essene library, but rather a Jerusalemite library of ...

8:00 a.m. It’s been 7 hours since last night ended — and 3 hours since I woke up — and ...