This Panoramic Sukkah re-creates Jerusalem in your backyard
By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA) — When it comes to Sukkot, the weeklong festival in which Jews live and eat in temporary huts known as sukkahs,…
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Easy Apple Pie Cookies Recipe
By Sheri Silver (The Nosher via JTA) — I never understood the “double crust” pie. I mean, even the flakiest, most tender crust is satisfying…
Mark Feuerstein dishes on his very Jewy new sitcom, ‘9JKL’
By Cindy Sher CHICAGO (JUF News via JTA) — A grown man moves into a New York apartment sandwiched between his meddlesome, boundary-less parents on one side…
I was disappointed to learn we were having a girl. Is that a sin?
By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM (JTA) — When the obstetrician told us last fall that we were expecting a girl, I was overcome with a mix…
Punk bands prove shofar isn’t just for the High Holidays
By Michael Croland (JTA) — Schmekel — a transgender Jewish punk band based in Brooklyn — opened its 2011 album with “I’m Sorry, It’s Yom…