So how do you make a kiddush that people will talk about for years to come? Here are some ideas to start your creative kiddush juices flowing like grape juice! Serious congregations don’t schmooze ...

This month I celebrated a milestone birthday (I am now enrolled in Medicare … yup, it’s that milestone birthday!), and my wife asked me what I wanted to celebrate the occasion. Without hesitation, I ...

Tears blurred my own eyes as I looked at the person who had endured for so long, and now chanted these holy words with such feeling, in our sukkah, so many years later. I wrote this reflective piece ...

Preparing for a holiday brings up a wealth of memories. My mother lived a modest life, at least compared to the middle-class moms around us. Vacations, Florida trips, beauty parlor, manicures, ...

However, modern-day grape juice – the one we know and love – is not only unfermented; it is pasteurized (mevushal) and includes additives such as sulfites that don’t allow it to ferment into wine. The ...

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient ...

The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired an 11th–12th century Afghan Kiddush cup for $4 million, a record for a Judaica ceremonial object. Known as the “Cup of Joy,” the hammered silver vessel blends ...

In the early 2010s, antiquity dealers began approaching Israeli institutions with startling offerings: centuries-old manuscripts that had been found in the caves of northern Afghanistan. Spanning ...

In 2023, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts opened a permanent Judaica gallery, the country’s third at a general — read: non-Jewish — institution. A year later, Houston’s MFA followed suit. And, just last ...

Ofira Asayag hosted the Democrats Party Chairman, Yair Golan, on Channel 12 on Friday evening for an interview, during which the left-wing politician donned a kippah and recited the Shabbat Kiddush by ...