holidays
Saint Patrick’s Day
How do Irish Jews celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day? The Loyal Yiddish Sons of Erin were a group of Irish-Jewish immigrants ...
The 7th of Adar
Today is the 7th of Adar II. This may not mean much to most people, but here is an interesting ...
Haman Song
In anticipation of Purim, here’s a great new video by Matt Bar of the Bible Raps Project and HyperSemitic:
The Inspired Kitchen
Purim is a merrymaking holiday with many food-related traditions, including giving mishloach manot to family and friends and eating triangular-shaped ...
H-taschen
I was doing some research into Purim foods earlier today, when I came across a site addressing the etymology behind ...
Exodus & Revolution
MyJewishLearning.com is co-sponsoring a pre-Passover six-part class on Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution along with AJWS, AVODAH, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, ...
Too Early
Last night I was at the grocery store, stocking up before the snow storm hit New York. I saw multiple ...
Schmutz Wednesday
There’s an old story about a Jewish mother who sees a young man with dirt on his face. She goes ...
The Inspired Kitchen
Tu Bishvat–often known as the Jewish New Year for trees–celebrates the coming of spring and the seven species of fruits, ...
Happy Holidays
We’ve learned through both our user survey and anecdotally that many of our readers are not Jewish. To those readers ...