Making kiddush on beer.

Every Tuesday for a year, we came together — for a memorial service, yes, but also to experience Jewish community in a new way.

I have a rich undergraduate memory of a professor teaching about communities. She said that one of the key aspects ...

We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome someday; Oh, Deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall ...

The holiday of Passover starts at sunset tonight, right? Not really. In our household, Passover started about a month ago ...

From pickle-flavored popsicles to pickle-y hot dogs in a blanket and everything in between.

April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

UPDATE: It turns out this story has some major falsehoods attached to it. The FBI has since denied any involvement ...

Last summer, when I joined Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel (ASBI), the local Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, I discovered ...

By Rabbi Benjamin Spratt and Rabbi Joshua Stanton A teaching from Sukkot merits our attention. Amid the building of huts ...