More Holidays
How Tu B’Av Became Matchmaking Season
A historical perspective on the Jewish holiday of love.
Chanting the Book of Eicha
The biblical Book of Lamentations is chanted in a unique style, with each verse beginning in a major mode and ending in its relative minor mode.
What Is Sinat Chinam, or Baseless Hatred?
For Tisha B'Av, a look at the common explanation for the Temple's demise.
After 69 Years, an Old New Paradigm is Needed
During the Holocaust we died in vain. We had no homeland and no state.
Why We Need to Change the Yom Hashoah Narrative
Up until relatively recently, Yom Hashoah was a day of atrocity and victimization at the hands of history.
Lag Ba’Omer in Meron
Each year, a rabbinic grave is the site of one of the biggest parties in Israel.
