holidays
A Megillah Costume
What are you dressing up as for Purim?If you’re Julie Seltzer — Torah (and megillah) scribe, MJL writer, and challah ...
Steal This Matzah
Over at the Awl there’s an awesome post about something called Moonstrips which are apparently awesome and made of matzah ...
Purim for Puppets
Our friends at Kveller.com have launched their new Purim video. It’s an awesome little piece that shows you the four ...
Why I Suddenly Understand Queen Esther
Sometimes I wonder what I would write about if I wasn’t Jewish and my mother hadn’t died. It’s kind of ...
Mini-Purim
Purim is exactly a month from today. This year in the Jewish calendar is a leap year, which means we ...
Movies for Tu Bishvat
Over at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog they have a list of movies to help you celebrate Tu Bishvat. Now, ...
Honi the Circle-Maker
It’s almost Tu Bishvat, the New Year of the Trees! Even though my friends in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia ...
A Different Night For LiLo
Hopefully, you’re like me and the first website you check in the morning is TMZ. You never know, something big ...
New Year’s Shabbat Ideas
Yesterday, I wrote about how much New Year’s Eve can suck when it falls on a Friday night. But instead ...
New Year’s On Shabbat
The solar system doesn’t want me to party. It doesn’t want you to party either. If it did, it would ...