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Steps for Making Your Synagogue LGBTQ Inclusive: Preparing for Rosh Hashanah
With the High Holidays right around the corner, now is a great time to be thinking about the message your ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
What Makes a Kosher Pickle Kosher?
When we hear the word pickle, most of us think of cucumbers — brined, shriveled, sour, cut into chips and ...
Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album: The Music (Part 3)
Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, wrote yesterday about Bob Dylan’s Judaism. He is guest-blogging all week ...
White Purim
I wasn’t dreaming of a white Purim, but that’s what we got. Saturday night, Shabbat went out, and I shoveled ...
American Jews, Jewish History, Modern Jewish History, Study
Finding Acceptance in the New World
Encouraging signs that the nascent U.S. would welcome Jews
American Jews, Jewish History, Study
Judah Touro: American Jewish Philanthropist
Judah Touro set the standard for Jewish American philanthropy by generously donating money to synagogues and other Jewish organizations.
Jewish American Life, 1700 to 1914
Life for America's early Jews.
Ask the Expert: Medical Research as Tzedakah
Does giving money for research count as charity?