Four short prayers, sung in half-darkness, a small gathering surrounding a candle ablaze — it’s enchanting, entrancing, primal.
“The interesting thing about Jewish ritual objects is how they reflect the time and place where they are made.”
The seder plate was not originally the ornate object we know it to be today.
In ‘Russian Doll’, Nadia’s attention to even the smallest detail rivals Rashi himself.
Everywhere I went in the Promised Land, I felt like a fraud.