Practices

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...

In a few hours we begin mourning the destruction of the Temple. Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day of ...

When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...

How many times have you heard that one? Growing up, it wasn’t a big surprise: our family would go out ...

If you just ate a hamburger, are you allowed to kiss your wife, who just had a milkshake? Do you ...

One doesn’t get a private priestly blessing every day, with fingers spread out and all; and when it comes from an ...

A few months ago, when it was first released, I reviewed the Koren Sacks Siddur, the traditional prayerbook translated by ...

I’m reporting to you live on location from the airport lobby. At 6:00 AM, the place gleams with a shine ...

Just in case you missed her guest stint as a Hasidic Jew on Saving Grace last night — or, like ...

Sixteen days to go, that is — out of a total of 21. During the Three Weeks, we’re not supposed ...