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Watch Benjamin Netanyahu's Mock Rosh Hashanah Address
The Israeli Prime Minister’s annual Rosh Hashanah greeting has become a mini-State of the Union of sorts. This year, as in previous ones, Benjamin Netanyahu used the opportunity to recap the Jewish...
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'Koch' DVD Released In Time For 2013 New York City Mayoral Election
You can’t tell the story of New York City’s transformation in the 1980s without mentioning former mayor Ed Koch. In his quest to chronicle the New York City of that era, director Neil Barsky couldn’t...
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Read Aimee Bender's 'The Doctor and the Rabbi' at Electric Literature
Last year, Aimee Bender—two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize and contributor to GQ, Harper’s, and The Paris Review—kicked off Tablet magazine’s new series of original fiction. This week, the piece is...
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Prepent 5774: Day 29, Celebrating the Jewish New Year
Journey into the High Holidays with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Storahtelling and the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul. It’s a daily dose of inspiration to get you focused and ready for the new year,...
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Prepent 5774: Day 30, Looking in the Mirror
Journey into the High Holidays with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Storahtelling and the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul. It’s a daily dose of inspiration to get you focused and ready for the new year,...
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Prepent 5774: Day 31, Preparing for Yom Kippur
Journey into the High Holidays with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Storahtelling and the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul. It’s a daily dose of inspiration to get you focused and ready for the new year,...
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Prepent 5774: Day 32, Before Yom Kippur, Trying A Cleanse
Journey into the High Holidays with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Storahtelling and the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul. It’s a daily dose of inspiration to get you focused and ready for the new year,...
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An Excerpt From Joshua Safran’s New Memoir ‘Free Spirit’
I know now that my family tree is adorned with rabbis and Hebrew novelists, Yiddish auctioneers and shtetl folk healers. But, as a kid, I didn’t know a thing about it. I didn’t even know I was Jewish....
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Why Dara Horn Is the Best of the New Breed of Jewish Novelists
Dara Horn’s home, like her life, has two levels. On the higher level are rooms full of toy dinosaurs and Babar posters. On the lower one, shelves full of Yiddish and Hebrew books and Zambian carvings...
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NYC Primary a Referendum on Repentance
Tomorrow, when New York City’s voters go to cast votes in the mayoral primary, they’ll be doing more than simply picking the best candidates to represent them. With not one but two disgraced...
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82-year-old Conceptual Artist Helène Aylon Liberated God
Helène Aylon grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in a tight-knit world of Orthodox families. From early on, she was a bit of a rebel, but that didn’t stop her from following the path prescribed for her....
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Today's News: Sexual Abuse Victim Shamed in Shul; Ryan Braun Calls Fans to...
• The 18-year-old Hasidic woman who testified against Nechemya Weberman at his trial, detailing years of sexual abuse by the Hasidic counselor (Weberman is currently serving a 50-year sentence at a...
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The Scroll's Advice for Gap Year Students in Israel
The ceremonial dispensing of sage advice is (and will probably remain) an inevitable and often insufferable part of a young person’s life experience. “The journey doesn’t end here, [hungover,...
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Prepent 5774: Day 33, The 'G' Word—Talking About God During High Holiday...
Journey into the High Holidays with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Storahtelling and the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul. It’s a daily dose of inspiration to get you focused and ready for the new year,...
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Byzantine Era Jewish Treasure Found at Temple Mount
Talk about Jerusalem of Gold! Months hardly pass in Israel without an archeological discovery of some wild magnitude. 5774 is off to a pretty good start. YNet and others are reporting today of the...
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New Yiddish Music Debuts in New York City at Singer Sveta Kundish's First...
Tonight’s concert at the Center for Jewish History marks the American debut of Berlin-based singer Sveta Kundish, who has been celebrated in Europe and Israel as one of the great new Yiddish voices....
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My Abortion, My Miscarriage, and My Right To Have My Own Feelings
In my 20s, I had an abortion. I was blissfully in love with the man who would become my husband. We’d been friends for a year, secretly pining for each other the entire time, and we’d finally begun...
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Talmud, Rather Than Prayer: Our Literary Critic's Weekly Daf Yomi Study
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world. As we moved into chapter 7 of Tractate Pesachim, in this week’s Daf Yomi reading, the rabbis continued...
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In ‘Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking,’ Seeing Childhood Through a Culinary...
“Nostalgia for an ideologically wretched regime is so incredibly complicated and fraught,” said Anya Von Bremzen, author of the new book Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and...
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How Yom Kippur Changed Jewish Philosopher Franz Rosenzweig’s Plan To Convert...
In October 1913, 100 years ago these High Holidays, 26-year-old philosopher (and Jew) Franz Rosenzweig was preparing for a crucial conversion ceremony: his own, to Christianity. However, because he...
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