Mixed Multitudes
DIY Challah Cover
One week when I was living in Dublin I went to a party in a professor’s apartment on a Friday ...
Innovating to Preserve Tradition
Lisa Lepson, the Executive Director of the Joshua Venture group, writes in her piece “Where Yesterday Meets Tomorrow:” The Judaism ...
First Person Grief
Last year I wrote a lot about my experiences mourning for my mother. It was an intense and exhausting year, ...
Best of the Week
We are almost at my favorite holiday of the year. That’s right! July 4th is less than two months away. ...
Wise Fridays: On Suffering
Rabbi Yochanan once became ill, and Rabbi Hanina went to visit him. He asked him, “Are your sufferings welcome to ...
Kosher Texting
Sometimes I’ll see a link to a website and just assume that it will be terrible. And most of the ...
What Shavuot Teaches Us About Women
This commentary is provided by special arrangement with American Jewish World Service. To learn more, visit www.ajws.org.The first verse of ...
Never Met Peter Chamor
I got a pretty strange text today: “What is Peter Chamor? And why are donkeys dressed up?” Obviously, my response ...
What Does This Mean??
My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...
My Alter-Ego
It all started with an e-mail from my mom a couple of years ago. She had been googling my name ...
Your Ideal Celebrity Shabbat Dinner
Apparently Q-Tip is into observing Shabbat since he’s been filming Holy Rollers, a movie about Chassidic drug mules. Totally awesome, ...
Brian Chase and Nigguns, You Make My Day
Since I started listening to music again, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have become the only band that I listen to. ...