Jewish Holidays

New Customs for the New Year

Shlomit Tripp about tashlikh boats and petals on the water

Kol Nidre and the “Civil Improvement of the Jews”

Haim Mahlev on controversies throughout the ages

Apples in Honey and Gefilte Fish

Museum employees share their personal experiences of the High Holidays

Interview
2013

Cycling Holiday

Avner Ofrath on Yom Kippur in Israel

Jewish Halloween

Naomi Lubrich on candy as a tricky matter for synagogues on Simhat Torah

Menurkeys for Thanksgivukkah?

Food for thought and recipes by Signe Rossbach

Essay
2013

“8 Facts” about Hanukkah

David Studniberg on the Jewish Feast of Dedication

Essay
2016

“If I were a rich mouse ...”

Michal Friedlander on Mickey, Minnie and their Hanukkah message

2015

In the Sleeping Car with Ten Hand-puppets and a Travel Hanukkah Candelabrum

Shlomit Tripp on her Hanukkah with the bubales family

Essay
2015

Tu bi-Shevat Traditions in Israel

Avner Ofrath on trees, fruit, and a breath of New Age

“Clever Esther”— Not Suitable for Children?!

Shlomit Tripp reports about her child-oriented retelling of the Esther story

Across Mannheim in the Matzo-Mobile

David Studniberg about the great feeling to support others during the corona crisis

Report
Apr 2020

The Big Clean-Up

Dana Akrish on Passover in Jerusalem

Essay
Mar 2018

A Kind of Family Gathering

Bitter Herbs and Their Relatives in the Diaspora Garden

Essay
2017

The Long Night of Tikkun

Mirjam Wenzel and Avner Ofrath about what we can learn from loving women

Essay
May 2013

Quite “best practice”

Tom Chai Sosnik celebrated his coming out as transgender in spring 2015 with remarkable aplomb – in a ceremony performed by Rabbi Tsipi Gabai at a Jewish school in California, supported by his family.

Essay
2017