Practices

Kosher Zombies & Vampires

Are zombies kosher? Or, more specifically, can zombies keep kosher? Asks a friend, the amazing comic writer Ashley-Jane Nicolaus: Long ...

Improving Moral Vocabulary

Eric Greitens is the author of The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a ...

Learning to Mourn

On Monday, Dr. Erica Brown asked, “What are the Three Weeks, anyway?” She will be blogging all week for MyJewishLearning ...

In Defense of Tzedakah

In this post-Hebrew Hammer world of kitscharama, Jews have their own version of pretty much everything — from Jewish delis ...

How To Pray Jewishly

I became Orthodox under the guidance of someone who advised me to run from it. Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel, the ...

How to Make a Mezuzah with Kitsch and Class

A mezuzah case made from a PEZ dispenser is a hoot. And unique, apparently — or so said Google at ...

Hosting Meals is No Picnic

I inherited my love of hosting Shabbat meals from my mother. Growing up we had company for at least one ...

A Rabbi On Jeopardy

A nice catch by Rabbi Jason Miller (and even nicer of him to record it and put it up on ...

Synagogues & Rabbis

Pulpit Rabbi Marci N. Bellows talks about allowing her congregation to friend her on Facebook, finding “something close to “I-Thou” ...

Kosher.com’s Gay Scandal

This was almost a story. Thankfully, the people at Kosher.com handled this very well and didn’t let it blow up.It ...