In the spirit of Purim, acknowledging both the heroism of Queen Esther (and arguably Queen Vashti for telling Achashverosh and his drooling buddies where to
Why do we: Wear costumes? Rattle noisemakers when we hear Haman’s name? Fast? Dov Bear has all the answers. Kind of makes you wonder if
Don’t know where to go for megillah reading this year (and live in NYC)? Now, you don’t have to choose. Storahtelling, with Zeek Magazine and
Ralph Seliger writes at the Meretz Blog, It is we Jews who are cursed — not in the sense that the Amalekites were, but in
I have shtreimel envy. Those voluptuous fur hats that Hasidic men earn just for getting married have held a certain fascination for me my whole
Last year the kashrut-observant world was turned upside down (inverted?) by accusations from PETA that AgriProcessorsInc in Postville, Iowa (also made famous from the 2000
In a story on Neturei Karta’s visit to Tehran, the Jerusalem Post claimed that delegation head Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss supported the regimes stand on
You just can’t hold a grudge against your Habibi.
When the angel of death was sent by G-d to kill all the Egyptian first born sons, he knew to skip over the homes of