November 2010

Earlier this week, Lavie Tidhar wrote about Jewish vampires and Hebrew punks and searching for Osama. His new novel, An Occupation ...

Pop quiz: Your son was just circumcised. You’re writing the mohel a check and making sure he washes his hands ...

After a couple of days off, I’ve returned to work. For the past few days, I’ve been sitting in a ...

Why do we love to read about food?I’m in the middle of Kosher Nation , a history of kosher food ...

On Monday, Lavie Tidhar wrote about Jewish vampires and Hebrew punks. His new novel, An Occupation of Angels, is now available. ...

Apparently the Chilean miners have been offered an all expenses paid trip to Israel, and they are on board, if ...

When you pray by the first light of dawn, the Talmud says, Heaven pays attention to your prayers immediately. And ...

Yesterday, I joined Jdate. My boyfriend was there, and we gleefully created a profile together. The profile was for my ...

There is that cheesy saying that goes, “Calories on Shabbat don’t count.” It was probably invented by your grandmother after ...

Lavie Tidhar’s new novel An Occupation of Angels is available this week. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish ...