Can’t be at a graduation in person? A birthday? Have I got a Broadway star for you.
It was the last time in now two months I’ve bought food from a store. (My dad was in the hospital for two weeks. I could not visit.)
It broke my heart being apart from my sister, and we missed out on all those baked goods, but everything else … was pretty awesome.
I couldn’t believe it — seltzer bottles being used as bombs in the Israeli War of Independence!
“The desire to keep the volley in the air — to keep playing and bring along everyone else — those are deeply embedded in Jewish tradition.”
“The desire to keep the volley in the air — to keep playing and bring along everyone else — those are deeply embedded in Jewish tradition.”
In the 1970’s Rummikub emerged from nowhere to international stardom. Barry Joseph explains the Jewish origins of the funny Jewish tile game.
FALL EDUCATION Digital media helps children pursue their own learning. Now is the time for adults to claim our unique role in the the digital age, writes Barry Joseph.
There’s something about an egg cream that can bring out the debate in some people.
David Fox has a problem with his rabbi. I sit across from David, at his office desk, in the family factory H. Fox and Company, deep in Brooklyn. David’s family founded the company and for the past century it has manufacturing a wide variety of flavored syrups. Today, however, I am only interested in one, Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup, which is widely regarded as the essential ingredient for the classic egg cream, once described by Mel Brooks as “the opposite of circumcision” as it “pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.”