Religion & Beliefs

After Seven Years of Talmud Study, Participants and Supporters Celebrate

Nearly 90,000 gather at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey to celebrate the completion of daf yomi

Finding Out My Favorite Gymnasts Won Olympic Gold Medals—on Tisha B’Av

Receiving exhilarating news on the saddest day of the Jewish calendar leaves a gymnastics-obsessed 13-year-old with mixed emotions

Kosher Salt: Jews with Tattoos

Fielding the same series of questions whenever someone sees my tattoos

Hebrew National and Me: Answering to a Higher Authority

A little suspended disbelief goes a long way in rationalizing one writer’s definition of kosher.

Tales of a Competitive Bageler

Mastering the art of letting everyone know just how Jewish you really are.

Introducing Jewcy Horoscopes: Cancer, June 21-July 20

A Jewish take on Astrology—a historically Semitic field of interest—fit for the 21st century

My Frizzy, Curly, Jewish Hair

After years of drastic haircuts and ill-advised dye jobs, a young woman learns to embrace her Semitic mane

Kosher Salt: Soliciting Judaism on the Street

Navigating past Super Jews and Greenpeace representatives on the way to class