Marijuana, as it turns out, has a history that goes all the way back to the Mishna and the Talmud where it is known as "cannabus."

I recently learned I’d been misled about Passover for my entire life.

CYCO books is not New York’s last Yiddish bookstore. Yiddish bookstores do a brisk trade in Hassidic Brooklyn, where some 150,000 people still speak the

Jewish Currents is proud to release Black Ox Orkestar’s first recording in more than a decade.

jewish,learning,judaism, numbers, gematria, numerical values, letters, alphabet, significance, Louis Jacobs

For centuries before text-messaging and emailing birthed ubiquitous linguistic shorthand terms like LOL, TTYL and IMHO, Jews were not just ...

The Jewish world has a longstanding aversion to tattoos. Even among largely secular Jews, the taboo against body ink remains ...

Body Piercing in Jewish Law. Adorning the Jewish Body. The Jewish Body.

Does Jewish law allow body piercing? While most contemporary Jewish authorities believe that ear piercing is generally fine, the matter ...

18.03.2022 - 17.07.2022 Von Gott zu Quentin Tarantino: Eine außergewöhnliche Ausstellung nimmt erstmals den Topos "Rache" in der jüdischen Kulturgeschichte in den Blick. Die Schau spannt einen Bogen von biblischen Erzählungen über rabbinische Schriften, judenfeindliche Mythen und jüdische Legenden bis hin zu populärkulturellen Erzählungen. In ihrem Zentrum stehen Zeugnisse der Ermordeten, die Rache für das Verbrechen der Schoa einfordern.

This is like the best ‘which Jewish books should I buy?’ thread of all-time.This is your starter library. (Plus @theradr ‘s “Surprised by God” and “Nurture the Wow”). https://t.co/brUiw2C3QB— Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman (@RabbiMarkAsherG) February 15, 2022

“Please do not forget to let people know what the Baal Shem Tov said about the reason that Mashiach’s [messiah] ...

Comic Books. Mainstream Jewish Literature. Mainstream Jewish Writers. Jewish American Literature. Jewish Literature.

Judentum und Social Media – so könnte man die sozialen Medien »jüdisch« verwenden: »Tzipporim« möchte ein dementsprechender Reiseführer sein. Weiterlesen

Combining short lectures by renowned faculty with lively small-group discussions, this course will give students a rare glimpse into the creative lives of Jewish women.

Rokhl’s Golden City: The rise of ‘nitl nakht,’ and the outsider appeal of the supernatural

Zum Neujahr der Bäume geht es im Jüdischen Garten in Marzahn um Kultur und Naturschutz

Past and future collide in this retelling of the Tower of Babel story including angels and giant mecha robots!

In 1979, when Henry Sapoznik founded the klezmer band Kapelye, he was among a cohort of passionate young musicians, musicologists and cultural workers who sought to reclaim Eastern European Jewish music and link themselves to still-living masters of that tradition. It was hard work. Relatively little had been done to preserve or transmit the culture of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in America.

I heard that you shouldn't start learning Kabbalah until you're 40 years old. Is this true? Why? Why 40 in particular?

"Doing the work of public history in neighborhoods with diverse, complex, and contested histories might implicate all of us in processes of real estate development, displacement, and erasure — regardless of our intentions."

Trotz aller Verwandtschaft zwischen den Festen: Es gibt viele gute Gründe, Weihnukka nicht zu feiern

Die Geschichte des Festes anders erzählt – mit einer modernen Deutung der altjudäischen Botschaft