Kosher for Halloween
By Daniel Kieval It's Halloween in the suburbs. For a couple of weeks, already, the neighborhood decorations have been out
Shtetl Life Reexamined
By Symi Rom-Rymer A picture is worth a thousand words, so goes the old cliché. But as Alana Newhouse’s recently
I Love A Parade
By Symi Rom-Rymer Living in a large, multi-cultural city like New York, you get used to the ethnic parades that
What the Minarets Ban Says About Europe
By Symi Rom-Rymer The recent ban on the construction of minarets (tall spires commonly found on Islamic mosques) in Switzerland
Have a Sweet Rosh Hashanah with Apple and Honey Challah
Courtesy of Jenna at ModernDomestic By Maxine Springer Here's a great idea (trust us, we've gotten to try it courtesy
Impresario for the Lost Voices of Theresienstadt
By Mandy Katz Perhaps an apt follow-up to my post Monday about a journey from the Holocaust to the Ivy
College Admissions? Of Buchenwald and Princeton
By Mandy Katz Some of his Frankfurt gymnasium teachers ended up in Buchenwald, my Tel Aviv correspondent Ernest Stock writes,
Sarah Silverman's Great Schlep
Trying to push American Jewish seniors to vote Democrat, the Jewish Council for Education & Research has enlisted Sarah Silverman
Beijing Olympics: Jewish Update
We are getting closer and closer to the Beijing Olympics next month, where all the Jews whose baseball teams have
Mob in Jerusalem Attacks Two Palestinians
Not long after Tuesday’s bulldozer attack, an Orthodox Jewish mob went after two Palestinians after a store dispute in Jerusalem,
The Google Seder
The e-mail invitation came at the last minute. Not that Google didn’t know Passover was on its way, but apparently