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Dessert Hummus?! What is the World Coming To?

I love hummus. I really do. I had some this morning for breakfast. I will probably have some with dinner. ...

I Probably Won’t Be A Farmer

Being an etrog farmer must be a tough job, especially in this economy. You know, because your product is only ...

How Does Ice Cream Become Kosher?

Paul Nasrani is the owner of Adirondack Creamery, a New York State ice cream company that uses local labor and ...

The Week That Was

I can’t wait for the weekend! I have all these great things planned! I’m going to a movie on Sunday ...

Kappara: A Poem

Just in case you forgot, our recent Bad Poetry Contest netted us a vast and diverse — if not encyclopedic ...

10 Days to a Better You: Days 7-10

With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...

Wise Fridays: Do-It-Yourself Inscribing

“Inscribe us in the Book of Life.†This must be understood in a spiritual sense. When a man clings to ...

Ahmadin-A-Palooza II

This week’s UN Summit means a lot of things for a lot of people. For some, it is a chance ...

Return of the Brooklyn Chickens

I still have mixed feelings about KaparotOn one hand, the pre-Yom Kippur ritual where we transfer our sins onto some ...

Sukkot On the Run

One thing I’ve always wondered about the holiday of Sukkot: If the makeshift tabernacles that we’re commanded to erect are ...

Everything You Heard Is True

Like a lot of Jews my age, I sometimes have a hard time conceptualizing the Holocaust. I’ve heard tons of ...

10 Days to a Better You: Day 6

With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...

Eat Me

In her last posts, Jennifer Traigreorganized her library and looked at the changes from her past year. She has been ...

Westboro Baptist Church On Vacation

When I was a kid, when the Moses family went on vacation, we did fun, wholesome things. You know, like ...

Inglourious Basterds: What You Didn’t See

So I’ve been reading the script (downloadable here) to the film Inglourious Basterds. And it’s pretty over-the-top insane.Not that you ...

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