Passover in Bejing: Does Sichuan Food Count As Bitter Herbs?
As Passover approaches, we all recall that we are strangers in a strange land. And boy, are we. As expats living in Beijing for the...
The View from Istanbul: Why Radical Propaganda Hurts Everyone
The mainstream media love fundamentalists. Why? Because they are such effective tools.
Talk of peace or peaceful people seldom appear in the media. Bloodshed, hateful talk,...
Rabbi to Seek Out “Lost Jews” of Italy
An Italian rabbi has been appointed a new emissary for the "lost Jews" in Sicily and southern Italy. Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, 36, will work on...
Passover Quiz | Test Your Haggadah IQ
Test your knowledge of Passover trivia, from oldest known complete Haggadah manuscript to Barack Obama's White House seder.
Wine: Ambrosia of the Jews
The Torah is full of oenophiles: One of Noah’s first actions after emerging from the ark is to plant a vineyard, and the Five Books...
Who Knows One? What The Popular Passover Song Teaches Us About the Holocaust
At the end of the Seder we sing the song “Who knows One?" As we recite verses that increase the count with each next verse,...
From the Moment Bookshelf: A Review of Yitzhak Orpaz
Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas
Yitzhak Orpaz, translated by Richard Flint and David Zaraf
Dalkey Archive Press
$14.00
By Katie McGinnis
Dalkey Archive’s publication of Yitzhak Orpaz’s Death of...
Happy Birthday, Philip Roth!
Happy Philip Roth day, as today--the 80th birthday of the pride of Newark--might well be called, with the writer's hometown hosting a Philip Roth bus...
A Vegan Seder?
This year will be the third year my Jewish vegan friends and I celebrate “veder,” our version of a vegan Passover seder. All of the...
Will Catholic-Jewish Relations Improve Under Pope Francis?
“We have been given arguably the most positive result one could want in terms of Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious and intergroup...
Muslim Brotherhood: “Women Should be Controlled by Man of the House”
Statements about the role of women from top officials in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood are garnering criticism and shedding a spotlight on an organization that until...
Haggadah 2.0: New Website Makes Passover Story Personal
A California-based start-up is aiming to make the traditional seder Haggadah more relevant by offering users the chance to create a text that incorporates everything...