Jewishness
Why Being A Hairstylist Honors My Jewish Family Traditions
Maybe she was supposed to be a doctor or lawyer, but hairstyling turned out to be the best way for Lisa Daniels to honor her family traditions.
Is There Anything More American Than The Ten Commandments?
Jenna Weissman Joselit delves into the surprisingly hilarious American history of one of the world’s most famous religious texts.
It’s Book Week In Israel — So What Happened To All The Women?
“It’s not always easy to discern all this gender politics looking at book-fair displays.”
So, How Do You Observe Shabbat In Reykjavik?
In a country like Iceland, where there are only 330,000 people, sometimes it’s hard to find a Jew.
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Meet The Boston Red Sox Organist Who Got His Start At Shabbat Services
A graduate of Brandeis, Kantor landed his “dream job” with the Red Sox in 2003, and hasn’t missed a home game since.
Maurice Sendak Thought This Work Was His Masterpiece — Not ‘Wild Things’
“The one question I am obsessed with is how do children survive.” Sendak once said.
Bringing A Talmudic Sage Back To Life
“This work should be characterized as a “spiritual biography” of a talmudic sage.”
Scott Turow’s New Book Takes On The Holocaust
Turow, 68, grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago in a household that observed what he calls “a secular, humanist, agnostic kind of Judaism.”
An Injured Athlete, A 70-Something Therapist, A Very Surprising Friendship
He was an injured former athlete. She was his 70-something therapist. What could they possibly have had in common?
Does New Scientific Discovery Undermine The Story Of The Garden Of Eden?
“We did not evolve from a single ‘cradle of mankind’; we evolved on the African continent.”
