What to cook for your holiday celebrations, from churros and Sefardic honey puffs to meat latkes and stuffed potato meat latkes.

While Hanukka brings an abundance of options for any gift-giver, the highlights of this year’s gift list are sumptuous, beautiful—and yummy—confections now available for holiday consumption.

What happens when Czar Nicholas's local official in the shtetl is incorruptible and the Jews worry how to guarantee a good New Year?

Rosh Hashana begins on September 24, as does the Shmita year.

Leading a Seder is not for the faint of heart. You have to know your audience. It requires fortitude and commitment, which can be difficult

When we look at the season’s latest Haggadot—for there will always be new, exciting, original, modern versions—we have to ask: What makes them truly different

The ubiquity of the tri-cornered Purim cookie hits you in the face when thumbing through a stack of kosher cookbooks (which I do on a

The story of Purim—with its fairy-tale rendering of a rebellious queen and the beautiful Jewish woman who takes her place, of a king who is