Judaism

Alan Light's new book explains how Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" went from obscurity to ubiquity

If You Need Me on Yom Kippur: The Mecum Car Auction's Coming to Dallas

Mecum Car Auction​Called my dad the other day and asked him: "You know what's coming to the Dallas Convention Center the first week of October?" To which he replied, very matter-of-factly: "Yeah, the Mecum auction." Which he knows because my father, a second-generation car-parts man, spends his oc ... More >>

The Festival of the Chose

Does Jewish Culture and Religion Make Women Prone to Eating Disorders?

Photos by Leslie Minora Adrienne Ressler, eating disorder and body image specialist, talks to the crowd about Jewish culture and eating disorders. ​ ​ ​​Potato knishes, challah bread, rugulah pastries -- face it, Jewish people have some tempting food options. And with weekly Shabbat and to ... More >>

Home Run Hoffman

Snip, Snip

Hamantaschen Aren't the Only Purim Pastries

Hamantaschen may be the most popular Purim pastry in the United States, but the triangular cookie's not the only traditional dessert associated with the celebratory holiday. ​Purim, which begins tomorrow night, commemorates the Jews escaping a genocidal plot by the dastardly Haman, an adviser ... More >>

Have a Ball

Fake Chanukah, Real Potato Latkes:
An Accommodation

Photos by Adam DonaldContemplating the meaning of Fake Chanukah for a kid...presents​Deeply rooted in the rich traditions of the Jewish people is the potato latke. Born of the shtetl and carried to this country on the taste buds of immigrants, the potato latke, a.k.a. the potato pancake, is ... More >>

Looking for Roots of Jewish Cooking in France

​When eaters think of French cookery, they're generally more likely to focus on choucroute than kugel. But Jewish food historian Joan Nathan is working to restore France's reputation as the birthplace of Ashkenazi cuisine with her new cookbook Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewis ... More >>

A Retreat From the Screech of Dissonant Days, or: My Rabbi Says To Knock Off the Blogging

Rabbi David Stern​Ran into my rabbi last Sunday -- David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear -- and asked him: "You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I'd like to post to Unfair Park." He grinned and said sure -- grinned, I'm sure, because it w ... More >>

Texas Oh Jew: UT Student Government Wants 2011 Red River Shootout Moved Off Yom Kippur

I went to a bar mitzvah in Austin two weeks ago, where I received this yarmulke -- perfect for next year's Texas-OU game!​A Texas Ex-girlfriend forwards along the link to a site called Move Texas vs. OU Weekend, which is a petition crafted by The University of Texas at Austin Student Government de ... More >>

Tina Wasserman on Breaking the Fast for Yom Kippur

Cover for Tina Wasserman's book: Entrée to Judaism: A Culinary Exploration of the Jewish Diaspora​Breaking the fast on Yom Kippur, which starts Friday at sundown, usually calls for raiding the synagogue's spread and making a mad dash for whichever restaurant puts the fewest obstacles between ... More >>

A Very Big Deal

Ditties A La Doctorow

Kosher Kisses

Local Activists' Response to Egypt's Ban on Gaza March: We're Going Anyway

Roger Kallenberg and Diane Baker of the Dallas Peace Center​On Tuesday, the Egyptian foreign ministry warned activists planning to march across its border into Gaza to mark the anniversary of last year's conflict that they'll be "dealt with by the law." But that isn't stopping Roger Kallenberg ... More >>

You'll Laugh Till You Plotz

Their Super Sweet 15

Even the Jews Want to Know Why the Feds are Detaining Local Imam

L'Chaim: A Dallas Artist Helps Give Israel a Second Life

You Down With JCC?

Celebrate the Jewish arts downtown

Torah, Torah, Torah

Dallas' Jewish community blossoms under the teaching of a scholarly partnership

Doors to Nirvana

Jimi, Janis, Jim and Kurt haunt the Granada

The Chosen Films

Jews for Jesus (Sorta, Kinda, Not Really)

True Connection

What's in store?

Plus: Rescued from the Reich

An Irritating Woman

Susan Diamond learned that it doesn't pay to annoy your kids' psychiatrists, even if you're a doctor

Un-chartered Territory

Plus: Coming Attractions; Torah, Torah, Torah!

In the Wolf's Mouth

SMU's Bryan Mark Rigg uncovers the story of Hitler's Jewish soldiers

Internal Despair

In The Believer, a Jewish student explores his inner Nazi

God Grief?

Gay Orthodox Jews engage in more than just Trembling Before G-d

Strong Stuff

Time of Favor's look at Israel is fascinating and powerful

Paper Chase

Texas Jewish Post Publisher Jimmy Wisch says he's being run out of town by leaders of the community he has served for 54 years. They say he's overstayed his welcome.

Will Barbra Be There?

Matchmaker

Seeker of the Lost Ark

Vendyl Jones says he's a crusading archaeologist searching for long-lost biblical treasures. His critics sya he's more worried about self-promotion than science.

Pass the blintzes

The Jewish Arts Fest takes center stage

New-time religion

Meditation, Buddha, and baby wipes. You call this being Jewish? Oy vey.

Old-time religion

Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union find a ready teacher in an Orthodox congregation

Letters

Man with a mission

Epistle to the Jews

Southern Baptist missionary Jim Sibley's job is to call Jews to Jesus. Is anyone listening?

Faith hell

So, there's a rabbi and a priest...wait, stop me if you've heard this one

Prime cut

Religious circumciser Rabbi Michael Rovinsky is skilled, funny, and popular among both his Jewish and gentile clients. But is this mohel a brazen self-promoter who is maiming our children by doing God's work?

Kosher war

High prices and low competition raise rumors that the fix is in at Dallas kosher markets

Not kosher

A Dallas County Jail inmate claims his junk-food diet is religious persecution

Kosher competition

Dallas' burgeoning Jewish community sparks a battle among markets hungry for their business

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