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What Is A Cantor (Hazzan or Chazan)?

What these singing clergy members do and how they are trained.

Vegetarian Passover Recipe: Sweet Potato and Swiss Chard Gratin

March is such a tempting mistress. The sun is in the sky later and the flowers are beginning to pop ...

Not the Jewish James Bond: Parenting in Unchartered Waters

I remember the exact moment when I realized I’d never be the Jewish James Bond. It was right after our ...

Is Good Food Excessively Indulgent?

(Cross-posted at The Jew and the Carrot) I wrote about this once before, but wanted to return to the topic ...

Kitniyot: Not Quite Hametz

The Passover debate surrounding rice, millet, corn and legumes.

Renewing Disruptive Innovation

In April, I represented ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal among #tenrabbis joining CLAL co-president Irwin Kula at the TriBeCa Disruptive ...

Our Good Friends the Essermans

Earlier this week, Melissa Fay Greene wrote about the adoption of her daughter, Helen, from Ethiopia, and telling jokes at ...

Series: A Letter to my Younger Self

This post is part one of a longer series of posts in which members of the Keshet community write letters to ...

When a Jewish Child Dies

It may feel like walking through the valley of the shadow of death.

What Is Chabad?

This once small Hasidic group has grown to unparalleled global influence.

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