Judaism

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Bedlam Backwards: My Haggadah

By Matthew Fishbane | April 8, 2009

A family Seder where “Next year in Jerusalem” really means next year in Jersey.

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Happy JewBu Day

By Nathan Schneider | April 8, 2009

Today’s a big day. At sunset, Passover begins (stay tuned for a special piece publishing at that very moment!). And in Japan, it’s the Buddha’s birthday. What a wonderful coincidence…

A Happy Purim

Ain’t No Party Like a …

By Nathan Schneider | March 10, 2009

Biking through Brooklyn. 10:30 pm on a Monday. You pass big hats—big ones. Music pumping from even more enormous vehicles. Hummers? No. Escalades? No again. Rented white RVs scattered through…

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Where the Wild Things Aren’t

By Jeff Sharlet | February 21, 2009

I met KtB contributing editor Laurel Snyder back in 2004, when Peter Manseau and I went to Iowa City to promote Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible. At the time,…

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Let All Who Mourn Now Rise

By Mark Dow | February 20, 2009

The art of making sounds one doesn’t understand.

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Translator’s Note

By Peter Manseau | November 5, 2008

A lapsed Catholic discovers the magnificent God of his disbelief in a Yiddish library. An excerpt from KtB founder Peter Manseau’s new novel.

No Union upon any terms. Th. Nast

(Dis)Integrating Church and State

By Gordon Haber | October 23, 2008

Someone might be tinkering with God’s voting machine.

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Forgiving

By Laurel Snyder | October 4, 2008

An open apology to Sarah Palin. Really.

Genesis on an egg in the Israel Museum

The Book of Weinstein

By Emily Meg Weinstein | July 1, 2008

Unchoosing the religion of the chosen people

"I wanted to read the story about throwing the bride and groom to the dogs," she said. (My Antonia, bookplate detail)

You Must Draw a Long Bead to Shoot a Fish

By Jeff Sharlet | June 16, 2006

A story of reading, dying, and being two things at once, from the new book Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes.

"The songs seem to come from somewhere ancient and strange."

Four Tables

By Margaret Schwartz | April 10, 2006

A Passover story of family and wine from Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes.

"Burma is a dangerous place! I know, I saw Beyond Rangoon!"

Motherly Love

By Diana Winston | December 14, 2005

Thus spoke Buddha’s mother: Fine, fine, be enlightened. But would it kill you to call now and then?

"Are we Jewish?" I asked my father. "Only when they come around for the camps next time," he said.

The Conditional Jew

By Lisa Selin-Davis | November 13, 2005

A child of hippies wonders when she is what she is, and why.

"Judaism is not a religion for cowards," he said.

Tehorah

By David Harris Ebenbach | November 7, 2005

Preaching purity, a man with a mission finds out how messy life can be.

"What was it like to commit suicide?"

Sitting Shiva

By Benjamin Weiner | September 22, 2005

Two lovers retrace the scars that brought them together.

"'Show some respect,' I told myself. After all, Mary is a Jewish mother."

The Only Jew for Miles

By Gordon Haber | August 17, 2005

An unlikely pilgrim to Poland sees more, and less, than he’d hoped.

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Kosher Cooking for What Ails You

By Abigail Pickus | June 10, 2005

When the going gets tough, the tough get to Mrs. Greenbaum’s kitchen.

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Exodus

By Francine Prose | April 22, 2005

A Passover reading from Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible.