Practices

What’s your favorite unkosher food? Bacon? Ham? Lobster looks very appetizing. But none of those compare to my favorite.Lox and ...

Last week in my review of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer’s book, Empowered Judaism, I wrote about how I’ve never had the ...

Over at TheKitchn, blogger Ronee Saroff writes about her family’s tradition of spending Friday night without electricity:About a year ago, ...

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, the Executive Director of Mechon Hadar, has written a new book called Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim ...

I guess people like Jackie Mason. Good for them? I’m not really sure what the appeal is, nor do I ...

“You know I don’t eat kosher food,” my friend David responded when I asked him if he wanted to come ...

The just-released Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals aims to do for kosher food what Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials did for ...

If you’ve spent any time with a siddur in the past few years, you’ve probably wondered how you’re supposed to ...

I love seeing YouTube videos and immediately thinking, “This is a parody, right?” Even better than that is the realization ...

If you’re active in a certain kind of Jewish community, you’re invited to vegetarian potluck Shabbat meals on a fairly ...