From the Back of the Bus to Segregated Beaches at Brandeis University
This weekend marked the fifth annual Gender and Human Rights lecture and conference at Brandeis University. Named for Diane (Dina) Markowicz, a student with a...
From Iraq With Love
by Sala Levin
Located at the geographic crossroads of Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Israel is a kettle of culinary confluence. Perhaps the...
Israel: Secularizing, But Not Secular
About 15 years ago, the late writer and journalist Israel Segal, who left the ultra-Orthodox world at a young age, provided a pessimistic account of...
Maxwell House Hagaddah: Good to the Last Page
In 1923, when Maxwell House Coffee signed on with the Joseph Jacobs Advertising agency in New York, it was already a legend. Theodore Roosevelt supposedly...
The Sweet Story of Charoset
Charoset, that aromatic ensemble of fruits, nuts, spices and wine, may be the tastiest traditional food on the Seder plate, but why it is there...
Great Seder Films
Marjorie Morningstar, 1958
Crimes & Misdemeanors, 1989
It Runs in the Family, 2003
When Do We Eat?, 2005
Passover works for movies the way Christmas does: Through the lens...
Most Americans Support Immigration Reform With a Path to Citizenship, Survey Shows
The majority of Americans support immigration reform with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to the findings of a new survey released by...
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...
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...
Do 1 Rabba, 2 Rabbis and 1 Yeshiva = a New Denomination?
As mainstream Orthodoxy moves to the Right,
a liberal faction gains momentum
The audience watches with rapt attention as Sara Hurwitz, a slim woman in a demure...
From the Moment Bookshelf: Books in Brief
Books in Brief: Senior editor Eileen Lavine reviews new and forthcoming titles
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski (translated from the Polish) is an unusual crime story...