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What Shahs of Sunset Can Teach Us About Judaism
Picture Reza, a Persian Jew, standing with a dead goldfish reciting Kiddush, the blessing over the wine. What does Kiddush ...
Machismo: How The Macho Male Identifies With Wildlife Animals
Remember the bedtime story about the sly wolf propped up in Red Riding Hood’s grandmother’s bed? Little boys must have ...
Celebrate, Israel, Study, The Canteen
Independence Thinking
Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow is the Director of Jewish Education at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.Unlike many parents who send ...
Celebrate, Eat, Passover, Seder, The Canteen
ProcrastiNation
Why do we eat Matzah on Passover? As we read in the Haggadah:Because the dough of our fathers did not have ...
Live, Rabbis Without Borders, Weddings & Marriage
Prepare, Otherwise We Might Just Miss It
I have felt particularly blessed lately. I just celebrated 10 years of service at my congregation. Thankfully, these 10 years have been ...
Plant Names in Yiddish
One of the most encyclopedic Web collections I’ve seen recently was created, ironically, to put to rest a supposition that ...
Beliefs & Practices, Israel, Jewish History, Live, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Jews and the Vatican: Epilogue: The Portable Altar of Ludwig the Priest
Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics ...
There is No More Fiction
I emailed Alice Mattison (author of the wonderful story collection In Case We’re Separated) and asked her to share some ...