Religion & Beliefs

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May God Bless And Keep the Tsar…

Executing a Shabbat dinner in the age of Trump. Showtunes included.

Welcome the Ushpizot

Get some feminist imagery into your sukkah!

Tea and Cookies and Death

How my experience at a “Death Café” helped me prepare for Yom Kippur.

Ten Years Later: The High Holidays for an Ex-Orthodox Jew

As Yom Kippur approaches, looking back.

The Hasidic Wisdom of ‘BoJack Horseman’

What the cartoon’s screw ups teach us about repentance.

‘Twin Peaks’ and Teshuva

What can Agent Dale Cooper teach us in the season of repentance?

Boreh Pri Ha’Ganja: What’s the Proper Blessing to Say Over Weed?

We asked three scholars and got seven different opinions

My Own Private Tisha B’Av: Long Island

Are you still in exile if you’ve never liked your home to begin with?