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Zevachim 42

A Matter of Time

Zevachim 17

The clothes make the man.

Zevachim 51

The derivation becomes the ritual.

The Jewish Life of Aramaic

From the Bible to the Seder table to the Kaddish, Aramaic has never left Jewish lips.

‘Bad Jews’

Self-judgment gets a bad rap. But is it such a terrible thing to appraise the life we’re living?

Sephardic Cuisine: How It Emerged, Evolved, and Persisted

For centuries, Sephardic food was shaped not only by flavors and ingredients, but also by the need for Jews to conceal their identity.

The Conversion Process and the Covenant

For the Israelites, acceptance of the covenant was twofold: identification with the people through circumcision in Egypt and acceptance of God at Sinai.

Psalm 92: Cultivating Shabbat Consciousness

The psalm associated with Shabbat aims to induce a state of awareness in which human perception realigns with divine creation.

An Insult and a Very Jewish Conversation

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...

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