Jewish History
The Best Thing I Read This Pesach
If you don’t have enough to do this Passover, let us help — you can read some erotic poetry, learn about ...
Righting Wrongs
Ealier this week, Austin Ratner wrote about Hillel sandwiches and patricide, photography, and Audrey Hepburn. His first book, The Jump Artist, is the ...
The Iraqi Jewish Archive
The Iraqi Jewish Archive, as it became known, is both proud and pitiful.
Leaving Mother Moldova
Marina Blitshteyn is the author of the new poetry chapbook Russian for Lovers. She has been blogging all week for ...
Was Lenin Jewish?
Exploring the ancestry of the mastermind of the Bolshevik revolution.
Crumbs Cupcakes: A Passover Tease
Crumbs Bake Shop has a line of Passover inspired cupcakes this year. Passover inspired, which is apparently very different from ...
March Rabbness
Even if you aren’t a college sports fan, let alone a sports fan, you have to admit that the March ...
The Week Before Purim Is Legally Obligated to Drag
It’s Friday, Friday, Friday afternoon, and that means it’s time to look back at the week:Have you tried our Hamantaschen ...
Wise Fridays: On Land and in Heaven
“Each people has as much heaven over its head as it has land under its feet.” —Hayim Nachman Bialik Find ...
Not So Fast
There are a only a couple more hours left of Taanit Esther, the Fast of Esther. As per usual, this ...
Anne Frank on Purim (photo)
From my sister-in-law, a vintage picture. I don’t know much about it, except that all these kids are wearing Purim ...
Wise Fridays: Abolish Wars
“It is hard to do justice to the originality of men who, in the eighth century BCE, untutored by the ...