Jewish Holidays

The beautiful chaos of our crew around a table covered with challah, wine, and probably too much food... Our table almost always holds more. Friends stop by. Guests join.

King David’s final words are not a farewell. They are a summons. A summons to responsibility, to faith and to moral resolve.

Still reeling from the horrors of violent fascism and extreme nationalism, humanity has grown enamored of a universal self-conception that denies meaningful differences of race, religion, or culture.

Ancient Greek culture, based on Aristotle’s philosophy, believed only in what is 'before the eyes' – what can be seen, touched, measured, and proven.

Three titles garnered the recommendation of the Association of Jewish Libraries: “Construction Site, Hanukkah Lights,” “Banana Menorah,” and “Lost and Found Hanukkah.”

How does one celebrate the eight-day Festival of Lights and include cats? Here's what you need to know.

Simchat Torah was never a festival of polarity. Happiness was never its sole emotion. Between death and creation, there is commemoration.

Which messages of Torah are we meant to celebrate and honor as our legacy on Simchat Torah?

This, I think, is the message of Simchat Torah: to hold firmly in one’s imagination the joyful possibility of a year made truly new.

The structures may be temporary, but creating them with attention to these minute details allows God’s presence to dwell among us.