We're four episodes in, and my Lesbian Hasidic Cross Country Road Trip story -- a little serial thing that I'm writing for Hevria -...

I became Orthodox under the guidance of someone who advised me to run from it. Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel , the rabbi of the Kesher Israel Co...

It was close to midnight, the latest I've been out in months. My friend Fred Chao had brought me to a comedy show in Chinatown, which...

Today is a fast day , and it's a weird one. The Tenth of Tevet, according to MyJewishLearning (you can read more here ), is the day wh...

Why do we love to read about food? I'm in the middle of Kosher Nation , a history of kosher food in America. The if the industry is a ...

Maybe it's the fact that all the Israelis I knew growing up were seriously cute girls (Orali in fourth grade, I'm looking at you ), ...

There's a new kosher restaurant right near our office. It's called Tiberias . The food looks yummy and the decor looks great and, ra...

A rabbi used to go around wishing everyone a kosher Purim and a happy Passover . Someone stopped him and said, What are you, crazy? Don'...

The just-released Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals aims to do for kosher food what Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials did for anima...

I spoke to Stephanie, who was coming out of the very tasty (and very not kosher) Tartine Bakery , on 18th and Guerrero Streets in San Franci...

When we hear the word pickle , most of us think of cucumbers -- brined, shriveled, sour, cut into chips and floating alongside red onion hal...

On the way out of his goodbye party last night, my doppelganger-in-name Shimon Roth grabbed me and said, "Are you gonna write about thi...