Vegetarianism in Jewish Vilna: A Not So New Practice

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Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Summer Niggun’ by Mikey Pauker

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Jewish Song of the Week: ‘No Right Way to Love’ by Jason Mesches

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Challah Dolly: Not Your Bubbie’s Challah

During the pandemic, many people have taken up hobbies or learned new skills, some to keep from losing their minds, others for more entrepreneurial reasons. Dolly Meckler, founder of Challah Dolly, falls into the latter camp. Having left New York and the corporate world of HBO (Game Of Thrones and Westworld) and YouTube (where she’d […]

Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Lo Alecha’ by Beth Schafer

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‘Letters Project’ Focuses On Case For Zionism

We read with interest the April 19 article by Chloe E.G. Tross (TOA Graffiti Shows We Need Better Israel Education), in which Tross shares insights from her own Jewish education surrounding Israel. She found the activities enjoyable but superficial, lacking the depth and nuance she later realized she needed. “If the case for Zionism is […]

The Passover Connection to Zionism and Campus Activism

In Hebrew, Passover is also called the Holiday of Spring, Holiday of Matzot, and the Holiday of Freedom. Indeed, I love the arrival of spring, the food and the family gathering, but my favorite part is the message of freedom and its value for our people the Haggadah talks about. Starting from the Seder, through […]

College Groups Experience Holocaust Museum Trip

As part of his sociology professorship, Tim Pippert makes it a priority to teach his Augsburg University students out of the classroom and get them experiential learning opportunities. Knowing about the Jewish Community Relations Council’s annual trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Pippert thought it would be a perfect opportunity for his senior seminar […]

Love in a Lunch Box: Tips For a New Passover Tradition

This article originally ran in the St. Louis Jewish Light Though each of my children has gone through brief phases of packing her own lunch or buying at school, I am, for the most part, our family’s lunch packer-in-chief. I estimate that I have packed close to 4,000 so far. It is one of my […]

Moving from Constriction: A Passover 2022 Message

This year, the Passover journey from Egypt and slavery to freedom and human dignity feels particularly poignant. The Hebrew word for Egypt, mitzrayim, also connotes “the narrow place,” a place of constriction. These past two years of Pandemic, along with all that has unfolded at the same time, have challenged each of us differently, but […]