Practices
Keep Your Swaying To Yourself
You know that moment during havdalah at basically any Jewish communal event? The moment when everyone puts their arms around ...
Mr Met is Now Rabbi Met
Here’s a pretty strange story, with a weirder twist. A Brooklyn judge has ruled that the kosher hot dog stands ...
Kosher Tacos
People of Los Angeles–drop everything you are doing. I’m a big fan of food trucks. In Montreal, where I grew ...
Roadkill Beer
I ask you all to keep an open mind with this one. Have you heard this story about BrewDog, the ...
Really, Let It Go
On Tuesday I worked my once-per-season shift at my Hazon CSA. It mostly involved hanging around and socializing, but every ...
The Quality of Mercy is Not Strain’d
Yesterday night I went to see The Merchant of Venice at the Public Theater in New York. Shakespeare in the ...
Big Brother Rests of Shabbat
After a hiatus of a couple of years, about two years ago, I started watching Survivor again. While many people ...
Jewish Camp Goes Green
Today is the first day of Eden Village Camp, a Jewish sustainable, environmentally-aware sleepaway camp 50 miles north of New ...
Condolences to Justice Ginsburg
All eyes were on Elena Kagan today, as the nice Jewish girl from New York took the stand for day ...
Israel’s Other White Meat
For any kosher law abiding Jew, visiting Israel is an opportunity to eat some of the things that are normally ...