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Bat Mitzvah as Rite of Passage into Self and Community

My daughter Ktoret Ashira was born on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem in 2001. Two and a half years ago we ...

Jews are a People of the Book; Jews also are a People of the Song. In fear, poverty, war and exile, song packed light and ...

Cooking creatively to celebrate Tu Bishvat is a little like peeking into a mystery basket of unrelated elements on CHOPPED ...

This year Tu Bishvat begins at sundown on January 24, 2016. May the holiday be a catalyst in bringing your ...

Many see Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a day off, but for my family, it’s a second birthday. The ...

It’s Friday afternoon in a quiet Maryland suburb. Cars pull into driveways and kids get off school buses, ready to ...

For many of us going to a new synagogue or Jewish environment is tough. We spend time beforehand wondering if ...

It is easy to be dismissive of any grand significance to New Year’s. Sure, it is fun–an excuse to gather ...

Several years ago, I was at a chain drugstore in Jackson, Mississippi, running some last-minute errands as I prepared to ...

One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...

A guide to building a sukkah, produced by G-dcast and Moishe House.

Sticky cinnamon bun, meet your new BFF, the rugelach.