Why Your 'Digital Shabbat' Will Fail
'Secular shabbats' may be a trendy self-help tool, but they won't curb your screen use or provide a quick fix for your stress.
Battling Stereotypes of the Jewish Mother
The Next Generation
Young people get organized in Yiddishland
The Radical Case for the Traditional Haggadah
Leftist seders often use versions of the Passover text that articulate contemporary political commitments—but the classical haggadah allows us to make our politics our own.
The ‘Revival’ Is Over, Let’s Talk Continuity
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 reversed the genders of every person in the Torah — and it finally feels complete
For the first time, by flipping the genders of each character, I felt that this ancient story was speaking to me directly.
Hashtag Patrilinea
Eine (extrem subjektiv) kommentierte Dokumentation der Causa »Patrilinearität«, die durch Max und Maxim losgetreten wurde.