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When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...

Well I did not make it to the Newsweek Rabbi list, or even the My Jewish Learning Real Top Rabbi ...

Tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day! To celebrate, we thought we’d share this mini-documentary we filmed one year at ...

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Have you ever been ‘bageled’?“Bageling” is: the conscious act – or speech – of a non-obviously looking Jewish individual to ...

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

It is very hard after the seder to get excited about the last days of Passover. Seven/eight days of eating ...

“Hava Nagila“ (Hebrew: הבה נגילה ) (lit. “Let us rejoice”) is a Hebrew folk song that has become a staple ...

To whoever is reading–I’ve had some complaints regarding my recent appearance on Conan, promoting my new book, Kasher In The Rye: ...

I had an all too familiar conversation with someone the other day who was talking about a community Jewish high ...

The mid-19th century in Germany is, to my mind, the most unappreciated period in Jewish history. The reason is simple: ...