We’re commanded to live in the sukkah for seven days. At the very least, we eat, talk, learn Torah, and some even sleep there for seven days. It’s holy glamping from the convenience of your own home....

There’s nothing so fresh and rejuvenated as my child’s school bag and intentions on the first day of September. Files, textbook and copybooks are new, pencils are sharp, and erasers are clean. This...

I’m the film skeptic you hate to watch films with; I will sit there poking fun at abstract future technology, like the hologram-type screens with a gesture-based user interface in Minority Report....

What time is it?

Summertime, it's our vacation

Hebrew literacy is the gift that keeps on giving. Whether for cultural, modern language or to read texts in their original form, the acquisition of Hebrew—reading, writing and even speaking—is almost...

What is Shavuot?

It’s a good question. You see over time all the reasons make it a chag that’s really complex… it’s a chag that kills two birds with one stone. Or more accurately, feeds many birds...

Lag BaOmer is the semi holiday many Jews don’t know about. It is literally the the 33rd day of Sfirat HaOmer, the counting of the Omer (Vayikra 23:15-16) as the numerical value of lag, lamed ל plus...

Jeopardy! is an American television game show with a specific quiz format. Contestants, competing for prize money, are presented with general knowledge answers and must phrase their responses in the...

Behold (I just like that word) one of my favorite passages in the Haggadah:

It happened that R. Eliezer, R. Yehoshua, R. Elazar ben Azarya, R. Akiva, and R. Tarfon were reclining [at a seder] in...

We own one Purim costume for babies, it’s a tiger, and over the years we’ve tied it into multiple themes so we could use it three times over.  Purim with small children isn’t easy….. sure you could...