Salted tahini chocolate chip cookies. Spinach falafel.  Ricotta and za’atar ravioli. Braised pomegranate short ribs. If these recipes have your mouth-watering ...

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available. For a long time I wanted to be a fiction ...

Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...

From the days of silent pictures to a recent upsurge in Jewish documentaries, Jewish characters and themes have appeared at an increasing rate in American cinema.

Intellectual consistency.

What is the essence of Passover? On the one hand, it seems obvious: Passover is about gathering together with loved ...

There’s no point pretending this blog post is going to be about camp or summer, especially summer. Montreal in February ...

This remnant of the Second Temple is an important symbol in Judaism.

How an old-school favorite became a multibillion-dollar industry.

Yiddish-speaking Jews put faith in the language of their new country and left an indelible mark on American letters.