Toby’s Story
I knew they didn’t align with my values — but I wanted the client
Baby Teeth
That got me kind of nervous. Because if Mimi’s teeth can just fall out, could my eyeball fall out? Could my arm fall off?
Growth Curve: Chapter 5
Some were bleary-eyed and half asleep, but all the guys who’d completed the monthlong Friday learning program were there. It was really happening
The Many Layers of Baruch Atah
It is the most widely used — and also the most widely mangled and least understood brachah
Leek Salmon
Nothing makes me contemplate starting a compost more than when I fill an entire garbage can up with greens after two minutes of cleaning a few leeks. Doesn’t stop me from using th ...
The Kashrus Triangle
Last week’s kashrus scandal has sown confusion and distrust among kosher consumers everywhere. What went wrong, and what can we do better?
Blast from the Past
At 101, Yaakov Aharoni is the last surviving shofar blower of an era when sounding the shofar at the Western Wall meant almost certain incarceration by the British
Hot-Honey-Glazed French Roast
Hot honey is the finishing touch to this masterpiece
Midlife Non-Crises
I smile, trying to stay polite, despite my frustration at answering this question for the 30th time
Changing of the Guard
Seventy years after she inherited the throne, Queen Elizabeth II’s passing has left millions in mourning
Canceling the Calendar
In the 1920s, a novel proposal known as the International Fixed Calendar threatened to upend Jewish tradition
