Commentary

Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews: Tales from a Haunted Present is the book that launched a thousand Jewish podcasts.

Every home needs a kitchen, especially a Jewish home. The kitchen might serve as a back-end facility while the entertaining and festivities occur in the dining area, but no one disputes the centrality of a well-appointed kitchen to a functioning home.

According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 23), Jewish history in the Land of Israel began in Hebron when Abraham, needing a burial site for Sarah, purchased the Machpelah cave from Ephron the Hittite.

All the Hebrew months rushed into their classroom, just as the New Year was off to a start. They couldn’t help but kibbitz before class began. Quickly their kibbitzing turned to banter and a bit of bickering.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a secret plea to Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1936, according to newly uncovered documents.

On the night of September 27, we celebrated Simchat Torah by unrolling the entire Torah while we consecrated our kindergarten and first grade students, officially welcoming them into their Jewish learning. We read the very end and very beginning of our ancient text.