Practices
These Books Should be Burned
Recently I walked into a Judaica store in New York City with my boyfriend. We had to buy some new ...
Kosher Beef Gets a New First Name
Well, except for the name part. According to Vos Iz Neias, Rubashkin isn’t the only game in town — or ...
It also has itty bitty split hooves.
Scientists at Hebrew University are helping to raise Israel’s first sturgeon population at Kibbutz Dan in the Upper Galilee. Female ...
How do you help…?
This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...
Now I Just Need a Shomer Shabbas Computer to Read These Stories
If a shomer shabbas toothbrush wasn’t enough for you, can you try a shomer shabbas lamp or one of the ...
Jewish Magic
A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...
Pentateuchs for Prisoners
Recently, we received a letter in the office from a person in jail, asking if we can send him a ...
A Vice President, a Sacred Space
I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...
Making Ties, Cutting Hair
Yesterday, I convinced my beneficent editor to let me out early in order to go to a friend’s son’s upsheren ...
The First Jewish Food
Wikipedia bouncing is one of my favorite things to do. If we use “surfing” to describe crawling the web, just ...