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When we hear the word pickle, most of us think of cucumbers — brined, shriveled, sour, cut into chips and ...

Everyone, by now, must have heard about the scary terror plot at two synagogues in the Bronx. Luckily, the FBI ...

I have a confession to make: I kind of like Holocaust movies. I wouldn’t go so far as to have ...

The flourishing of Jewish Studies in American universities has been one of the crucial stories in Jewish culture since World ...

Aliza Hausman, over at Memoirs of a Jewminicana clued me in to this hilarious and awesome Indian version of Hava ...

When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t have much going on in the way of hospitality — mainly because ...

First there was the Hitler sperm being used to market a brand of condoms.  And now, Hitler is being used ...

Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...

This article was written for the 2009 Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, a project of ...

OK, as promised:This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations ...