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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 ...

Independence Thinking

Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow is the Director of Jewish Education at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.Unlike many parents who send ...

ProcrastiNation

Why do we eat Matzah on Passover? As we read in the Haggadah:Because the dough of our fathers did not have ...

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 ...

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 ...

The History of Bagels in America

A brief history of your favorite Sunday morning nosh.

This Blintz Recipe Survived the Holocaust

This dish is so much more than a delicious dessert.

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