Partner Blogs
The Joy of Hanukkah
JTA did all the work in finding this one, so they get the props for it. I’m very happy they ...
How to Write a Facebook Invitation
Tonight we’re having a rabbi from Israel speak at our place. My wife tasked me with writing the Facebook invite ...
Whisky Menorah
I customarily make a Hanukiyah out of beer bottles, as a kind of homage to the hipsters in my life. ...
New(ish) Hanukkah Songs and Videos
I think Christmas is to blame for all of the completely bizarre Hanukkah music out there. And this year you ...
Santa’s Jewish All-Star Dream Team
There’s a seasonal uproar about seasonal messages. In the gentile world, the debate rages: How early is too early to ...
The Miracle of The Wind-Powered Menorah
When Yeshiva University student Mark Stauber would walk down Amsterdam Avenue daily to go to class, his yarmulke would continuously ...
Neil Diamond Wishes You A Happy Hanukkah
At first, I wasn’t sure this was real. It was so insane to me that Neil Diamond would make this ...
The Act of Self-Translation
Michael Idov is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and the author of the novel Ground Up. He’ll be ...
Best of the Week
It’s the Best of the Week: Hanukkah Edition. It’s almost as good a name as Die Hard II: Die Harder. ...
There Really Was a Flood
This article from the BBC carefully avoids making any reference to the Bible. Still, sounds an awful lot like a ...
Jelly Donut Making
‘Twas the night before Hanukkah, and you know what we’re doing? Well, one of us is working. And one of ...
Always Light From Left to Right
It can be the most stressful times in a Jewish person’s life. It ranks up there with, “wait, I have ...
Finding a Religious Home
Flashback: It’s Yom Kippur, my favorite holiday. This year I let myself have some coffee. Maybe I shouldn’t admit that, ...
Final Push!
Ladies and gentlemen, we are almost there.As I type this, we have raised a total of $9783. That means we ...
Wise Fridays: Self Improvement
If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow? –Rabbi Nahman ...