Organic isn’t just in farmer’s markets anymore. In fact, buying organic is so mainstream that it has its own niches—and Jews are buying into it, too. Here are some clever ways to Jew with a …

If you have ever seen William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” performed, you know Shylock would never win the Nice Guy Award. Being a Jewish moneylender intent on procuring a pound of Antonio’s flesh as …

For some reason, on my mom’s side of the family, we have always celebrated Hanukkah with a  piñata shaped like a Star of David.  My grandparents would fill it with whatever candy they had in …

Jerusalem
When the swine flu broke out in spring 2009, Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman suggested Israel call the outbreak “Mexican flu” to avoid mentioning the non-kosher animal. After a complaint from the Mexican embassy, …

With the No. 1 iTunes free download in March and gigs in cities like New York, Atlanta and Detroit, singer/songwriter Mike Posner is hardly your typical college student. The Duke University senior and his …

One might say San Francisco-based Citay’s sound is as epic as its hometown’s skyline. Despite the grandeur and the spaciousness that has captivated music critics and sonic aficionados alike, the origins of Citay trace …

schmooze sat down with Sam Harris, the President of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, to discuss his book “Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust” and his work on the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and …

The first time I had Shabbat dinner in Cairo, I didn’t light candles or eat challah and chicken soup. Instead, a friend and I, both pleased simply to find another Jew in Egypt, got …

Take a step through the doors, and you’ll first notice the Brutalist architecture.  A German railcar-an exact model of the kind used in the Nazi deportation of Jews to concentration camps-sits in the building’s cleave. …

I grew up in Montgomery Village, Md. and moved westward to Seattle to start college in the fall of 2008.  Let’s just say it’s a different world out here. I relocated from the nation’s capital …