2013

There’s a new player on the Jewish blog scene, and it’s not holding back. Jewrotica is a “pluralistic and sex-positive organization ...

On Tuesday night, I hosted a large Passover seder at my home in Jackson, Mississippi. Out of love for this ...

Quite recently, someone asked me about my “process.” This someone wasn’t asking about the creative parts—the meandering through the dark, ...

Passover has always been my favorite holiday. I love the foods, seeing my family and my friends who are normally ...

Miriam Shwartz is the co-director of JCC Ranch Camp in Colorado’s Black Forest.We’ve just passed the 10,000 feet mark on ...

On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the legal and spiritual center for Conservative Judaism in America, ...

I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...

Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities.  When ...

We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...

I am bored to death, dying of starvation and on the brink of losing my mind at Passover dinner at my father’s ...