Holiday Features
Shofar makes house calls
Edmon J. Rodman, JTASep 19, 2014
ROSH HASHANAH EDITIONSECTION D PAGE 13 LOS ANGELES In preparation for the High Holidays last year, my community sent its shofar blower on the road. During the month...
The Sabbatical year
Ben Sales, JTASep 11, 2014
TEL AVIV When Rosh Hashanah comes later this month, Israels Jewish farmers wont just be celebrating the start of a new year. Theyll be marking a year in which...
Lag b’Omer…when I was a kid
Deborah Fineblum, JNSMay 15, 2014
By Deborah Fineblum, JNS ONE of Pnina Newirth’s earliest childhood memories is a trip to Mount Meron on Lag b’Omer. But this was no ordinary family...
From farm to table: Locally grown matzah on the rise
JTAApr 11, 2014
By Talia Lavin, JTA PASSOVER 5774 EDITION SECTION C PAGE 16 NEW YORK In their small farmhouse bakery in Vermont, Doug Freilich and Julie Sperling work round the clock...
French matzah bakery in operation since 1850
JTAApr 11, 2014
By Toni L. Kamins PASSOVER 5774 EDITION SECTION A PAGE 12 PARIS For most Jews, matzah season comes once a year. But for Jean-Claude Neymann, matzah, or pain azyme...
Riemer’s best new Haggadah of year
Rabbi Jack RiemerApr 10, 2014
PASSOVER 5774 EDITION SECTION A PAGE 13 IMAGINE having a Soloveitchik, a Kuk and a Shlomo Carlebach at your seder How would you like to sit at the seder with […]
Shhh . . . No! Be noisy!
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAMar 13, 2014
LOS ANGELES On Purim, can we really blot out the memory of an evil like Haman, who threatened our very existence, with a noisemaker? When in a popular Purim
Digging for spiritual growth on Tu b’Shevat
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJan 13, 2014
LOS ANGELES While my neighbors were putting their Christmas trees to the curb, in what seems like a ritual of replacement, I was preparing to plant for Tu bShvat....
Giant menorah in Holland signifies friendship
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 29, 2013
BERLIKUM, Netherlands In a windswept parking lot near the North Sea shore, Klaas Zijlstra stands motionless as he admires his latest creation. Its the first time he...
Gobble tov! Insightful aspects of Thanksgivukah
Edmon J. Rodman, JTANov 25, 2013
CHANUKAH EDITIONSECTION E PAGE 5 LOS ANGELES If the Pilgrims are lighting menorahs and the Maccabees are chasing turkeys, it must be Thanksgivukah, as some have come...
