Passover
A Departure From the Traditional: The Bronfman Haggadah
When I set out to create the illustrations for The Bronfman Haggadah , I knew I wanted it to be ...
What “The Daily Show” Can Teach Us About 21st Century Judaism
I am ready to nominate Jon Stewart as an honorary “Rabbi Without Borders.”Last week, Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, in a ...
Ready, Set….Passover!
When I was a little girl and I would spend time with my grandparents, they would be planning dinner while ...
A Passover Mitzvah in Southeast Kentucky
In celebration of the completion of the Kentucky section of our online Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, we bring you ...
A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon
Every Thanksgiving I think of the Thanksgiving scene in the 1990 film Avalon, one of Barry Levinson’s semi-autobiographical Baltimore films. Avalon tells a ...
For the Sake of Unification
Soon after learning my late grandmother’s family lived in Nachlaot, I accepted an invitation for Shabbat dinner from sweet friends, Mottle ...
Marching Towards Freedom With The Omer
We often flow unaware from one moment on the calendar to the next. There are too many times where we ...
L’Shana Habah…at a Restaurant?!
This week Jon Stewart called for the Jews to “take it up a notch” since our traditions couldn’t possibly compete ...
The blessings of a mixed multitude
A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...
Teaching the Four Sons in the 21st Century
We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...
The Lost Afikoman
Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian and the author of Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale Of A White Boy ...
A multicultural view of Passover eating
Every year I get a call from my mother, “Remind me again, do we eat peanuts on Passover?”This question should ...