Organic Epicure
Surfin’ Israeli is totally stoked about his Healdsburg winery
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Oded Shakked has been running his own winery, Longboard Vineyards, for 15…
Astrolojew
A ‘great conjunction’ approaches, but is it good for the Jews?
Kislev Nov. 28-Dec. 27 The month of Kislev is usually the most jovial of months, chiefly because Kislev’s ruling planet Tzedek/Jupiter is connected to…
Torah
To boldly go where courageous Jews have gone before
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek. Toldot Genesis 25:19-28:9 I recently watched an interview where Leonard Nimoy,…
Unions
Kumquats, Trump, a van and a Vespa: building blocks for everlasting love
The election of Donald Trump was responsible for at least one good thing, Rabbi Sydney Mintz and Ellen Spiro agree: It brought them together. Both women…
Analysis
Will Michael Bloomberg’s Jewishness help or hinder his run for the White House?
After a season of maybes, the media magnate and former New York mayor who got the phrase thrice-elected into his bio is entering the presidential race…
Jew in the Pew
Getting drunk on Jewish texts and arts
My dad sat to my left. Next to him was the charismatic, theatrical Bruce Bierman, whom I last encountered when he was leading a deliciously off-the-wall…
Celebrity Jews
Annette Bening plays Dianne Feinstein; etc.
A Mister Rogers anecdote “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” which opened Nov. 22 and is still in theaters, is about Fred Rogers, the late children’s…
The Tell
Buttigieg and the moderate majority, and more from the week’s political news
As I sat in the Spin Room of the enormous Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta waiting for the fifth Democratic debate to start, it felt like deja vu. The…
Torah
The deep meaning of the Torah’s first great love story
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek. Chayei Sarah Genesis 23:1-25:18 At the halfway point of the Book of Genesis,…