Mixed Multitudes
Music+Pie
Some combinations are so divine, so utterly brilliant, it seems inconceivable that the two things ever existed separately: Chocolate and ...
Passover Contest: Best Seder Ever
What’s your best Passover story? It can be a horror story about Passover cleaning, or the story of how your ...
The Seven Roads to Hell (or: Dante’s Inferno adapted for Chassidic Jews)
Goldie Goldbloom is the author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, a novel about Italian prisoners of war in ...
Finding God Through Non-Jewish Music
Last week in my review of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer’s book, Empowered Judaism, I wrote about how I’ve never had the ...
Best of the Week
Can you smell it? It’s not right in front of me, but I can definitely smell it from the distance. ...
Wise Friday: Understanding Racism
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum hatred for a minimum reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel Find more ...
Elvis Has Left the Country
Those crazy Israelis. They always have tricks up their sleeves. Just when you think you’ve got them figured out, they ...
Snooki Gets Revenge
The Oscars are coming up on Sunday. I believe I’ve seen maybe three movies this year. And lucky for me, ...
Spider-Man Crawls Up Kotel
I asked Tamar, our intrepid co-blogger here, if there was such a thing as too many wacky Purim photos. Really, ...
Dungeons & Dragons Makes You a Better Jew
Author and gamer Matt Staggs just wrote an article for Random House’s science fiction site, Suvudu, about plans to revitalize ...
One Less Knickerbocker
Trivia: Which two teams participated in the NBA’s first game? Bobcats and Thunder? Sorry, that’s incorrect. The answer is the ...
Family Meal Traditions
Over at TheKitchn, blogger Ronee Saroff writes about her family’s tradition of spending Friday night without electricity:About a year ago, ...