This Holiday is the Joyous follow-up to Yom Kippur
Today marks the first day of Sukkot, the weeklong Jewish festival that not only signals the end of the high holidays but holds both historical and seasonal significance, as well.
Rabbi Ari D. Weiss of Cornell Hillel tells Refinery29 that...
Where to eat Kosher in Mexico City
La Muertita—the Little Dead Woman—sets up her quesadilla stall every evening on a busy commercial thoroughfare called Prolongación in the hilly neighborhood of Bosques de Reforma on the western outskirts of Mexico City. She...
Sukkot: Don’t read this—It’s utterly futile
Here is a dismal, if anecdotal, indicator of the state of Jewish education: whenever I have asked, I have found that the overwhelming majority of Jews don’t know that the phrase “nothing new under...
Desperate to Eat-oh – Despacito Yom Kippur Parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ereKzbzsDoo
These Bay Area retirees are finding tranquility, and Judaísmo, in Mexico
Before moving to Mexico, Michael Zimmerman gave a lot of thought to the idea of uprooting 35 years of living in San Anselmo. For 20 of those years, he was an active member of...
A capella group details history of Jewish music in 5 minutes
If you've ever listened to Yiddish rap, you know that Jewish music has come a long way over the past few hundred years.
Just how far?
The Y-Studs A Capella group, based at Yeshiva University, has...
Here’s the World’s best Honey cake, according to science
I am among the legions of loathers of honey cake. Every Rosh Hashanah, someone tells me about their amazing honey cake that I must try, and I wind up having to make polite yum-yum faces while...
Rosh Hashanah Greetings, Yiddish-Style
We no longer send many Rosh Hashanah greeting cards to each other. Once, in the days leading up to the holiday, the mailboxes were clogged with them. Now, if we send them at all—and...
From Poland to Lithuania: A writer’s search for her Jewish past
I think I was in an iced-over bus lot in northeastern Poland, standing in front of a mound of desecrated gravestones, when I first had the feeling that Jewish heritage travel in Europe might...
An exploration of Jewish Morocco
My husband Marty and I recently participated on a 10-day “Mission to Jewish Morocco,” which was organized by the Jewish Federation of Sarasota. Not only did we see the usual tourist sites of the...