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Lavender Cheesecake with Shortbread-Almond Crust

Cheesecake is a natural fit for Shavuot, which falls during springtime right as people's cows and other animals were giving birth, and therefore producing milk.

Time Wars

The ancient rabbis were well aware that control of the calendar was linked to their authority over the Jewish people

Ruth and the Holocaust

The Book of Ruth takes on new significance in modern times.

Brownie Sundae With Espresso

A Shavuot dessert to help you stay up all night.

Season of Uncertainty

Why should the Omer, a period of harvesting a staple crop, have become a time of mourning?

The PI Project Continues: Hiking Edition

A continuing series of posts from Paige and Isaac, two young Jewish roommates down South

Object Origins

Recently Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray after a Fox ...

Best of the Week

Oh yes, yes, yes. It’s June. Did you know that June is Spanish for “happiness”? Don’t look that up.Shavuot is ...

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