Advertisement

How to Plan a Jewish Funeral

A practical guide to preparations for Jewish burial and mourning.

Counting for a Heart of Wisdom

Passover, Shavuot and counting the Omer of change.

The Kosher Trader Joe’s Facebook Group Is the Best Thing on the Internet

The Kosher Trader Joe’s Facebook Group is much more than just a place to discover new products or ask questions, ...

Randy Susan Meyers Dishes about Tours, Writing, and Murder

Today, Alicia Oltuski interviewes Randy Susan Meyers, who wrote The Murderer’s Daughters, about her experience touring the nation’s synagogues and JCCs ...

Sacred Fire

Fire can be destructive or constructive as well as a tool for connecting with the divine.

The Quiet Greatness of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein: One Woman Remembers

Tucked away, among a pile of folders and spiral notebooks that contain the photocopied sources and notes of classes gone ...

Make Your Community All-Gender Inclusive

We hear from trans-activists (including on this blog – see yesterday’s interview with Nick Teich) that one impediment to transgender ...

Regina Jonas

How one of the first female rabbis was almost forgotten.

The Purpose of Memory

Yizkor and Memory, The Purpose of Memory. Jewish Memorial Service. Jewish Holiday Prayers.

Food Blessings

I have to eat in holiness and purity, because I am doing God's will by eating.

Advertisement