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Wise Fridays: Build Many Chambers in Your Heart

All the words have been given by a single Shepherd … so you build many chambers in your heart and ...

Taking the Messiah out of the Three Weeks (and Putting Joy In)

Today is the 17th of Tammuz, the day when five big catastrophes happened in Judaism: * Moses smashed the original ...

I’ll Be At Home Eating Worms

I’m getting very very close to the end of the 11 months of saying Kaddish for my mother, and I ...

History and Archaeology

The Dead Sea Scrolls, claims Rahel Elior, do not constitute a lost Essene library, but rather a Jerusalemite library of ...

A Jew and a Muslim Walk into a Bar…

8:00 a.m. It’s been 7 hours since last night ended — and 3 hours since I woke up — and ...

Gila Almagor

This Israeli writer, stage actress, and film actress has a complicated identity.

The Goldbergs

At one point, America's favorite family was a Jewish immigrant and her children.

Isaac Babel

Gangsters, beggars, prostitutes and other inhabitants of Jewish Odessa.

Hannah

How she waited and prayed patiently for a child and was rewarded.

Evangelical Tractate Bonanza, or, My Christian-Take-on-Jewish-Holidays Learning

Secret disclosure #481516: I like to collect evangelical Christian tractates. Since I’ve become a parent and gotten a regular gig ...

Israel & the Media

Whether the BBC is pro-Israel or anti-Israel may well depend on what time period you collect the data from–and who ...

Siona Benjamin

An artist who paints from the East.

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