A few years ago, I was browsing through a Judaica store. After looking at the books, and the Shabbat candlesticks, ...

The holiday of Shavuot demonstrates a method of gift giving that we may want to deploy when thinking about advancing ...

Rituals for entering the Day of Atonement.

What is a scribe?

This past March, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, Los Angeles’s largest purveyor of kosher meat, was discovered smuggling repackaged ...

My Memphis holiday memories remind me what matters most

What’s the first Jewish holiday we’ll be welcoming in the secular New Year of 2014 (besides Shabbat, of course)? Tu ...

Betrothed women don’t drink it.

Over the last few months, I had the pleasure of working to put together a Southern Jewish Heritage tour for a ...

We find ourselves living at an interesting time on a couple of levels. Having just participated in two wonderful Seders ...