Growing up Rosh Hashanah always meant a trip to grandma’s house. Ten kids running around, eight adults, games, music, naps on the living room floor after temple and, of course, a whole lot of food. As ...

Leave it to the Jews to have a cookie inspired by cultural annihilation! Hamantaschen are the triangular pastries associated with the holiday of Purim, when Jews read from the Book of Esther, the ...

While looking at cooked spaghetti squash one day and noticing its remarkable likeness to its namesake, spaghetti, I was inspired to experiment with a noodle kugel. I researched classic recipes for a ...

A central figure in the development of Jewish mysticism, Luria died at 38 and left behind no significant writings. Isaac Luria was a 16th-century rabbi whose teachings exerted an enormous influence on ...

A giant of a man. A new chapter of Bekhorot that began on yesterday’s daf pivoted from blemishes that disqualify a firstborn animal to blemishes that disqualify a human priest from performing ...

I know you guys enjoy a good recipe hack, and I think you will love this one: two ingredient rugelach! That’s right: just a package of puff pastry, filling and that’s it. You can make flaky, sweet, ...

In Syria, lentils play a large role in basic cooking. They are inexpensive, easy to prepare and a good source of nutrition. It is a legend that the Jews in Sinai were given lentils by Moses to help ...

Jewish tradition defines several stages in the process of mourning, which correspond quite well to the modern understanding of the emotional process of grief. Traditionally, Jewish funerals take place ...

The process varies from movement to movement, but certain rituals are common to all of them. The process of conversion penetrates a person’s innermost character and spiritual being, demanding an ...

Leader and nation who will battle Jews before the coming of the Messiah. Gog and Magog refers to the enemies against whom God will wage an apocalyptic war at the dawn of the messianic age. The wars of ...

The harsh environment of the wilderness lead to Israel's spiritual development as a nation. The book covers the years of the people’s wanderings in the desert. However, only the beginning and closing ...

Bob Dylan's lyrics never explicitly invoke his Jewish roots, but Jewish influences are never far from the surface. Bob Dylan, the great songwriter and performer, was born Robert Allen Zimmerman. The ...