Purim change of pace: a chocolate dough
By Shannon Sarna NEW YORK (JTA) — Hamantaschen talk is always about the filling: prune, poppy, apricot and strawberry, just to name a few favorites….
Holiday Columns
Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski: The Joy of Purim
By Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski (AJNews) Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrated with gifts to friends and the needy, of masquerades and noisemakers. It is…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Fuel for a festival
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – It is no easy matter to initiate a new holiday. Although the ancient Israelites could base their festival calendar on…
Op/ed: Why we’ll fight Israel’s new extremist political agenda with the determination of the Maccabees
by Rabbi Rick Jacobs (JTA) — The Book of Exodus tells us that the penultimate plague inflicted on Egypt, the plague of darkness, was one of…
Rabbi Mark Glickman: The Great Message of Chanukah – “Just Deal With It!”
By Rabbi Mark S. Glickman (Calgary) – I am a religious Jew. I feel passionately committed to Judaism – to its holidays, its rituals, its…