Habari Gani? How My Family is Melding Kwanzaa and Hanukkah Customs
Food, Faith, and Family: Three Poems for Passover
"You won’t smell soup cooking yet / or cake or kugel or tzimmes baking / on the day before Passover."
Teach (and Practice) a New Jewish Value Each Night of Hanukkah
Eight Nights, Redefined
For some children, finding out that the tooth fairy isn't real is the final straw.
Blending Tradition and Change Across the Generations
Early on, I learned that not all Jewish observance looks the same. In our global society, Jewish rituals will continue to evolve, giving way to new traditions.
7 Great Haggadot if You Have Young Children at Your Seder
Empty Chairs and Stained Napkins: A Passover Prayer for Peace
When we gather on April 19 and 20 to mark the first two nights of Passover, we will pray. And we will ask aloud: What makes this year’s seders different from all others
How to Enrich Your Seder with Some (Good) Drama
While others cook and clean for Passover, I write jokes for Moses, Miriam, Pharaoh, and God – so we can add a play to our family’s retelling of the Exodus from Egypt.
How to KonMari Your Pantry (and Your Life) in Time for Passover
Kondo teaches us to organize our stuff and toss what we don’t need, using a method centered around inventorying everything we own and getting rid of anything that doesn’t serve a purpose or “spark joy.”
Let My Popcorn Go: Rethinking Passover’s Forbidden Foods
Jews, our rabbi insisted, have a duty to resist this mistaken and harmful tradition by making it a point to eat kitniyot on Passover.