Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of mezuzahs, small narrow cases containing a parchment (called a klaf) inscribed with the Shema prayer. The case is traditionally attached to the doorpost of a Jewish house.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of mezuzahs, small narrow cases containing a parchment (called a klaf) inscribed with the Shema prayer. The case is traditionally attached to the doorpost of a Jewish house.
In effort to show solidarity with Jewish community, some see campaign as cultural appropriation
Doug Emhoff said he'd put a mezuzah in the White House. Whether Jewish law requires him to is a matter of dispute.
For Lisa Van Allsburg and her husband Chris, Judaica is a family affair
The college, which has been rocked by protests over the Israel-Hamas war, told students it’s trying make the campus feel more welcoming
"To me it felt like the precursor to ‘We’ll hide you when you’re in our attic,'" one Los Angeles Jew said about his neighbors' offer to mount their own mezuzahs
An eBay listing claims to be the ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb’ creator’s Judaica
It took me years to put a mezuzah on my doorpost. Now, I can't imagine living without one
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish, recently affixed a mezuzah to the doorpost of the vice president’s residence and have chosen another for the residence’s interior. A mezuzah, a tiny scroll with auspicious biblical verses ensconced in a decorative case, in Judaism marks the home as a sacred space….
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