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How to Plan a Jewish Wedding
A checklist of 7 things to consider, from clergy to chuppah.
The Seven Genders in the Talmud
Judaism has recognized nonbinary persons for millennia.
Polygamy in Judaism
Once a tolerated and regulated practice, polygamy is virtually unheard of in Jewish life today.
Holocaust, Jewish History, Members of the Scribe, Study
The Joint
Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...
Israel, Jewish Texts, Members of the Scribe, Study, Talmud
Poem as a Noisy Mediterranean Duplex
About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...
Secular No More
A true story of an Ultra-Orthodox Jew in Israel who left Ultra-Orthodoxy for a secular Israeli Lifestyle.
The Good, the Bad, and the Delicious
Earlier this week Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking and fasting on Yom Kippur for the JBC/MJL Author Blog. ...
Kislev & Hanukkah
The connections between the month and the holiday.
Unraveling the Mystery of Jewish Food
On Monday, June Hersh gave a recipe for Moroccan lamb shanks. She is the author of The Kosher Carnivore: The ...