2016 was an epic year for Jewish food–there were rainbow bagels, plenty of new-school Jewish delis, reimagined gefilte fish and ...

Hametz, kitniyot and the holiday's dietary restrictions.

Because becoming a Jew is an evolving process.

I have always been a Passover hater. There aren’t that many of us, but what we lack in numbers we ...

As I write today’s blog entry on Tu Bishvat, I’m sitting in my home office looking at the piles of ...

Why some Jews have two days of Yom Tov.

What's in a name?

Worlds are created -- and destroyed -- through words.

Liberation comes only to the courageous.

If I lived alone on Planet Laura, I would stop writing about the Pew survey, in protest against unproductive, polarized ...