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Blessings for Food, Celebrate, Shabbat
Hamotzi: The Deeper Significance of the Blessing over Bread
These simple words mask a subtle theological statement about the primordial past and the perfected "world to come."
God, Jewish History, Jewish&, Study
Passing for Black?: Another Perspective
Identity is complicated.
Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Study
The Shulchan Aruch
This 16th-century text by Joseph Caro is the ultimate code of Jewish law.
Jewish Culture, Jewish Film, Jewish Music, Pray
Top 15 Pop Culture Jewish Prayer Moments
From Gene Wilder to Larry David, we round up our favorite examples of Jewish prayers in music, film and TV.
The Stick that Exacerbates the Plagues
Like the Egyptians devastated by the arrival of the plagues, we become concerned only when environmental degradation reaches our back door.
Beliefs & Practices, Gender & Sexuality, Women & Feminism
Feminist Perspectives on Niddah, the Laws of Separation
Acceptance versus rejection of the laws governing monthly mikveh visits.
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Is Good Food Excessively Indulgent?
(Cross-posted at The Jew and the Carrot) I wrote about this once before, but wanted to return to the topic ...
The Do-It-Yourself Prayerbook
Patrick Aleph is the lead singer of the Southern Jewish punk band Can!!Can and a former employee of Modern Tribe ...
African Hebrew Israelites
American black community finds spiritual home in the Negev.