Purim

(Reflections and a recipe for Pimento Cheese Hamentaschen)

The joyous, sometimes boisterous, holiday of Purim is approaching. Twice during the holiday, Jews will publicly read the Book of ...

Today is International Women’s Day, and we have a confluence, as we sometimes do, between secular observances and our Jewish ...

When my friends ask me how I like my new job, I halfheartedly complain that it’s interfering with my protest ...

Purim is all about the hiding. Esther hid her identity from King Ahashverosh. Haman hid his evil side from the ...

Judaism is masterful at balancing the playful and the serious, and so much of life is about that balance as well.

This week’s Torah portion, Tzav, ends with a ceremony consecrating the first Israelite priests, Aaron and his sons. The blood ...

Last week I had a nasty bout of stomach flu. One of those batten down the hatches, no food for ...

And what is a drinking party without drinking songs? As in other Jewish communities, drinking alcohol was part of the ...

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