Talk of the Table | Rice and Beans for Passover?
Conservative rabbi Amy Levin always makes lentil soup on Passover—but never in her grandmother’s pots....
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The Yazidis: A Faith Without A Future?
14:47 09 March
in Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, Featured, Spring Issue 2020, World
In 2014, ISIS forced them from their homes in Iraq. Many fled the country. The rest remain displaced, afraid to return home. ...
Ask the Rabbis | What Is Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is a culture of commonly held malicious assumptions and attitudes toward Jews and Judaism....
Visual Moment | The Daring Madame D’Ora
Recalling a past that was so different from wartime and its terrors, she wrote: “I was only familiar with one of them, the one perfumed with luxury and flowered with orchids.”...
Talk of the Table | A Savory Georgian Feast
Nestled between the shores of the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the country of Georgia is a land where different cultures...
Ask the Rabbis | Is Silence Consent?
On the one hand, we have the Talmudic legal adage: “Silence is like a confession”...
Visual Moment | Grand Dame of American Art
In many ways, Edith Halpert embodied the spirit of American pragmatism, which is how she explained herself: “I either had to stagnate, which was a thing I dreaded, or go ahead, and the only way to go ahead was to do something beyond what I...
Talk of the Table | Jews and ’Shrooms
When a student of the famous Talmudic sage Rabbi Gamliel doubted the majesty of the World-to-Come...
Ask the Rabbis | Should Dirty Money Be Returned?
The ethics of using “dirty money” has been a topic of conversation in Jewish circles for millennia. ...
My People in Cartoons
A combination of misanthropy and compassion for your fellow humans, and at least some ability to draw and write—this is what makes a cartoonist....