Sometimes, a video’s brilliance is its simplicity. You don’t always need to fluff it up with fancy scripts and visuals. All you need is a funny concept and you can run with it. So with the long weekend quickly approaching, why not just leave... 

“Revelation is not an act of [a prophet] seeking, but of his being sought after, an act in God’s search of Man.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel, Between God and Man Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on The rest is here:  Wise Fridays: What... 

As negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians continue in Washington, D.C., despite two terrorist attacks in as many days, Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are lamenting an apparent return to the darkest days of violence. Read more here:  Murder... 

Earlier this week Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking and fasting on Yom Kippur for the JBC/MJL Author Blog. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. I’ve long been fascinated with the relationship women have... 

I have some news for you. Curb Your Enthusiasm may not be the most Jewish show out there. That title has to go to Adult Swim’s Delocated. For those of you who don’t know what Delocated is, I’ll fill you in quickly on one of the weirdest... 

Chasidic artist Michael Mordechai Cohen celebrated his East Coast debut as he unveiled a series of pop-influenced spiritual prints at the J. Klaynberg Gallery in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. See the original post:  Printmaker Blends Jewish... 

For the first time ever, New York Fashion Week – an annual tradition that showcases the spring lines of hundreds of the city’s top fashion designers – will coincide with the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah. See the rest here: N.Y. Rabbi Promotes... 

This is the first-place winner of MyJewishLearning.com and Shemspeed.com’s High Holiday Poetry Contest. Read our other winners, Wet Toes and Dragon Tefillin. Caregiver’s Rosh Hashanah by Rita Janice Traub The only shofar sounds we hear are beep... 

I have a confession to make: I don’t like apples and honey. I mean, I don’t dislike them, but I don’t look forward to them, and I rarely even finish the one piece of apple that I take. I just find them to be thoroughly blah. I like my... 

Earlier today, we announced Dragon Tefillin, the third-place winner in our High Holiday Poetry Contest, sponsored by MJL and Shemspeed. Here’s#2. Wet toes by Monica Goldberg Under the humidity of falling light we talk about creation and shoe sales...