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Why the Mishnah Is the Best Jewish Book You’ve Never Read
This almost 2,000-year-old text flies under the radar -- but it's immensely important to Jewish life.
Turkey Day – Trouble or Treat?
For many of us, the Thanksgiving holiday is like a ritual that we observe similarly each and every year. We ...
Beliefs & Practices, Science and Ecology, Study
What Is Shmita, the Sabbatical Year?
The Torah calls for Jews to work the land six years and let it rest in the seventh.
Jewish Languages, Ladino, Sephardic Jews
Who Are Sephardic Jews?
After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews mostly settled in Amsterdam, North Africa and the Middle East.
Eat, Holiday Food, Jewish Recipes, Rosh Hashanah Food, Shabbat Dishes, Sukkot/Simchat Torah Food
Honeyed Carrots and Roasted Chickpeas with Tahini Recipe
This Rosh Hashanah recipe incorporates Ashkenazi and Sephardic New Year symbolic foods.
Becoming Southern & Jewish: Part III
This is the third installment in my three-part series on “becoming Southern and Jewish.”After “coming out” as Jewish in the ...
Aquafaba: The One Ingredient You Need for Dairy-Free Baking
You’ve probably noticed the chickpea’s strange, foamy properties if you’ve boiled this legume and skimmed those impressive peaks of foam off ...
9 Things You Didn’t Know About Rosh Hashanah
Impress your friends and family with these little-known facts about the Jewish New Year.
Beliefs & Practices, Conversion, Jewish&, Live
From Looking Jewish to Being Jewish
Cultural anthropologists call it ‘going native’. You find yourself in the field as a participant observer of your host culture ...
Jewish&, Live, Women & Feminism
Camp Rabbi, Role Model, Match-Maker
This week rabbinic student Isaama Stoll is heading up to Camp Be’chol Lashon to teach Torah, pray and hang with other ...