holidays

Just in case you forgot, our recent Bad Poetry Contest netted us a vast and diverse — if not encyclopedic ...

With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...

“Inscribe us in the Book of Life.†This must be understood in a spiritual sense. When a man clings to ...

I still have mixed feelings about KaparotOn one hand, the pre-Yom Kippur ritual where we transfer our sins onto some ...

One thing I’ve always wondered about the holiday of Sukkot: If the makeshift tabernacles that we’re commanded to erect are ...

With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...

In her last posts, Jennifer Traigreorganized her library and looked at the changes from her past year. She has been ...

In her last post, Jennifer Traig looked at the changes from her past year. She is guest-blogging all week for ...

With Yom Kippur bearing down on us, and the promise that only “repentance, prayer, and charity can alter the severity ...

Jennifer Traig, author of Well Enough Alone, is guest-blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council.This New Year ...