Angela Warnick Buchdahl thinks of herself as a wandering Jew with a sense of direction. The Korean-born daughter of an Ashkenazic father and a Buddhist

We are at a small dinner party with close friends as rockets rain down on Israel and on Gaza. Everyone at the table is Jewish.

The murder of children horrifies and shocks us beyond measure. Whether it’s news of a single death or twenty, we react with visceral anguish, and

Storied Feasts Jewish folklore is rich with captivating tales that skillfully incorporate food as a major plot element. It is with food—and cooking—in mind that

Shavuot, which celebrates the time we stood at Sinai, is associated first and foremost with hearing the Ten Commandments. But the Midrash brings a much

“It is the obligation of each person,” the Talmud tells us of Purim, “to be so drunk as not to be able to tell the

I took a deep breath and joined the three women in the refrigerated room. Within lay two meisim, newly deceased and covered with long sheets.

In the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,