Other Holidays Archives

7 Ways to Celebrate Tu B’Av, the Jewish Day of Love

Editor’s note: This year is different, and some of these activities are more accessible right now than...

1186 Republished January 12, 2011. My family never really celebrated Tu Bishvat, though I do have faint...

We’ll have to practice stepping on glasses in these shoes – and we’ll keep our fingers crossed...

Alexandra with her parents and fiancé The decision to get married inevitably invites inquiry. How did you meet?...

It’s Tu Bishvat. The Birthday of the Trees. Hooray trees?!? It is wonderful and important to honor this special...

This blog post was reprinted with permission from j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California. I recently...

I went to Congregation Rodeph Shalom’s Purim celebration this year. (Or last year, by the Hebrew calendar.) The...

$8 Salad: Composed for Tu Bishvat 1339 January 10, 2013 A version of this article was previously published...

On the Shabbat of Sukkot, the harvest festival that the Pilgrims chose as a model for Thanksgiving, the scroll...

I’m way behind on my Purim prep. Yes, I made hamantashen, last night, but I’m still writing my chapter...

I didn’t mean to let the entire Purim holiday go by without a greeting on our blog! Today I was the designated...

814 The Holiday Dinner Jeff and Jenny planned to spend Passover with Jeff’s Jewish parents. They...

1297 Every winter, just as we start to think about spring, a minor holiday comes along. Minor enough...

(In which someone finally answers the question, “What about…Naomi?”) Shavuot begins Sunday...

Bryan and I have a couple of new tasks to take on this week, after our latest pre-marital counseling sessions...