A list of books to augment your time in synagogue (but don’t read them during the rabbi’s sermon, it’s rude)
Matzo for Rosh Hashanah? Ham for Hanukkah? Challah for Passover?
Why Tzom Gedaliah is the observance our angry society desperately needs
Let no one tell you a quality Jewish education doesn’t have practical applications
Today on Jewcy: An original poem about the transition from Purim to Passover
Today on Jewcy: Elephants! Alexander! Assassinations!
Today on Jewcy: When can you officially break out the latkes and dreidels?
Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’ gets the Shushan treatment… twice
Examining the ethics of the Purim story
Dressing in costume for the holiday shouldn’t involve cultural appropriation
Schools will still close for holidays, but school calendars won’t name them
We ask the experts about the High Holiday season’s least-understood festival
The festive holiday now overshadows Shemini Atzeret, which has biblical roots
Fancy versions of the Four Species go for more than $100
The actress also enjoys challah, french fries, and gardens
From hamantashen to designer costumes to newfangled groggers—anything and everything you might need to better enjoy the Festival of Lots
The Purim tradition of drowning out Haman’s name with noise dates back to medieval times. But in our increasingly cacophonous lives, an illustrator wonders: Does the grogger need to be reinvented?
Everything you ever wanted to know about the story of Esther
