Judaism

"Confronted with the Gospel of John, I could not hide behind metaphor..."

Singing the Passion

By Sue Russell | March 23, 2005

A Jewish chorist tries to harmonize with the Gospel of John.

"I’ve never had a student fail with me,” he said. "But with you something is different."

Dreading the Buzzer

By Hasdai Westbrook | November 4, 2004

A tale of God, lies and audiotape.

"What makes this night different from every other night?"

Sabbath Queen

By Scott Korb | May 11, 2004

On Friday nights, God likes to watch.

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In the Court of the Bostoner Rebbe

By Micah Gil | November 13, 2003

A black hat diaspora in the city on the hill.

The Abayudaya's Moses Synagogue, on Nabugoye Hill outside of Mbale, Uganda. Photo by Jay Sand, (c) 2003 <em>Scattered Among the Nations</em>

Lugandan Psalms

By Blake Lambert | October 24, 2003

The Jews of Uganda get an ‘A’ for effort when it comes to atonement. But is that enough?

"This New Year is a time to look carefully at all the missed opportunities, the things we meant to do, but didn’t do in the year we are leaving behind..." (High Holy Days postcard, circa 1915.)

To Pardon All Our Fucking Iniquities

By Laurel Snyder | October 3, 2003

A half-Jew writes her own Yom Kippur prayer.

A man and his ram blow in the new year.

Blow Your Own Horn

By Micah Gil | July 30, 2003

How do you make a shofar? And more importantly, can a tranny blow one?

Abraham mourning for the death of Sarah (detail), Marc Chagall, 1931-1939

W.W.A.D.

By Jeff Sharlet | June 6, 2003

The new neocons ask: What would Abraham do?

“[Streisand] is much more beautiful than ‘pretty’ people…. The banality of mere prettiness is a blight on American movies.”

The Long Moan

By Laurence Klavan | May 2, 2003

What did Pauline Kael really think about Jews on film anyway?

"It's Easter-time. They sell these at the drugstore."

Easter at the Jewish Ritual Bath, 1962

By Ilana Stanger-Ross | April 16, 2003

A tale of love, loss and submersion.

Mitre Peak, New Zealand

Coming Home, O Lord, I’m Coming Home

By Cheryl Pearl Sucher | April 4, 2003

An expat returns to America just in time for holy war.

Black Darkness at rest

St. Patrick’s Purim Shpiel

By Benjamin Weiner | March 14, 2003

An American Jew dresses up like an Irishman, and tells of his odyssey through the land of blarney.

Scribes of an unfinished canon. Yiddish writers gathered in Vilna, Lithuania, 1919.

Canonizing Yiddish

By Irina Reyn | February 21, 2003

Find me a find, catch me a catch, make me an anthology.

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Image Conscious

By Jeff Sharlet | December 12, 2002

Dara Horn sets out to write the Great American Yiddish Novel — in English.

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Torah Studies

By Susan Messer | September 27, 2002

In the midst of celebration, a mother reconsiders a tale of failed reconciliation.

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Raised by Jews

By Naomi Seidman | May 25, 2002

Reflections on a belated apostasy.

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My Bar Mitsvah: A True Story

By Laurence Klavan | March 23, 2002

Today, he is a man. Tomorrow, he’s playing Vegas.

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Sects and the City, Part 2

By Elizabeth Frankenberger | February 3, 2002

Kosher sex and treyf love: Is dating just another way of mixing milk and meat?