Shavuot Blintzes: Take Your Lactaid, Folks
Shavuot, the holiday that marks the receiving of the Torah and the annual cheesecake overload, begins on the evening of Tuesday, May 14. The holiday...
Book Review / Menachem Begin: A Life
Martin Indyk reviews "Menachem Begin: A Life," by Avi Shilon
The Story of Sergey Brin
It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey Brin’s office at the Googleplex. Tucked away in a corner of Building #43 on this sprawling...
The Best Entries from the 2013 Jewish Pets Contest
Check out the finalists—from Nacho's bark mitzvah to Reuven's meow mitzvah.
Glenn Frankel on “The Searchers”
Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent many years as a Washington Post reporter and editor, now serves as director of the School of...
Books about Jews in Washington, DC
A supplement to our special Washington, DC Jewish American Heritage Guide:
The Jews of Washington, D.C. : A Communal History Anthology edited by David Altshuler, 1985,...
On Kaddish
Six hundred and thirty one kaddishes ago my dad passed away. Each day, since we buried him, I wake when it’s dark, retire when it’s dark,...
The (Not-So) Jewish Tao of Howard Wolowitz
The Big Bang Theory, the perennially popular CBS sitcom centered around the social and romantic woes of three exceedingly intelligent physicists and one engineer, is...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The Knesset’s “Year of the Woman”
The Knesset's "Year of the Woman" - A record number of female MKs includes new faces, seasoned activists and rising stars.
Ask the Rabbis | What Are Our Obligations as Jews Toward the animals We Use, Live With or Eat?
What are our obligations as Jews toward the animals we use, live with or eat?
A House Divided
Following the end of apartheid, students living in the dorms of the University of the Free State in South Africa heartily embraced integration. At first it went well, then the students chose to resegregate. What caused social progress to surge forward and then reverse course?