Why some synagogues use paper-cuts as decorations, how Israelis celebrate with water, and other lesser-known facts about this springtime holiday.

I love the holiday season – I even love a three day yontif (yom tov, or holiday).  With the exception ...

I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...

For more than 20 years, the Eldridge Street Project worked to restore the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue on New York’s ...

Universal and particular.

Some things don’t require a lengthy intro, and these hamantaschen are precisely that. I made them last year and was ...

Everyone loves telling stories from their childhood. Especially when they are funny. You can only imagine how funny these stories ...

Is it OK to be “buying out someone else’s mitzvahâ€? so you can do it yourself? (The Jerusalem Post) The ...

I’m a few years late, but I’ve finally gotten around to starting Professor David Berger’s The Rebbe, the Messiah, and ...

This week our homepage features articles about what makes meat kosher. But lately, the focus has been on what makes ...