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People dressed up during the Jewish holiday of Purim, at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, on March 9, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 16, 2022, 3:11 am
Jews with alcohol use disorder strive for sobriety during Purim bacchanalia
The Talmud seems to encourage inebriation amid the revelry, which falls this year on Wednesday eve-Thursday, but drinkers and teetotalers alike struggle with alcohol’s central role
By Rachel Román
Rebecca Erev, co-founder of the Queer Mikveh Project, blows the shofar at the first QMP mikveh event at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California, in 2015. (Chani Bockwinkel/ via JTA)
January 17, 2022, 2:37 am
The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews worldwide in a changing ritual
Online and in-person, a new group is making the tradition of the ritual bath communal rather than personal, and more welcoming to non-cis-gendered participants
By Rachel Román
Jewish students and faculty at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, celebrated the October 1 inauguration of a 'Jewish Sacred Space' at the school, along with the arrival of its first-ever Torah. (Chiana McInelly/ via JTA)
November 23, 2021, 4:25 am
In a former neo-Nazi hotbed, Jesuit college Gonzaga gets 1st Torah, Jewish space
Thanks to the initiative of Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein and student leaders, the several dozen identifying Jews on an eastern Washington state campus have their own gathering place
By Rachel Román
Illustrative: A woman dressed as a witch dances in front of the fire during the Walpurgis night in Erfurt, Germany, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
October 30, 2021, 11:29 pm
Season of the Jewitch: The occultists reviving Jewish witchcraft and folklore
Far from rejecting magic practitioners, Judaism — or at least Kabbalistic strands of it — has long embraced them. But these aren’t the pagan dark arts associated with Halloween
By Rachel Román
Barry Levenson (left) and his mustard museum. (Courtesy of Levenson/Wikimedia commons/via JTA)
September 24, 2021, 4:24 am
Meet the Jewish mustard maven who founded a museum for his favorite condiment
Chief Mustard Officer of the Middleton, Wisconsin institution, Barry Levenson says the spicy seed is culturally ubiquitous, and he has 6,090 varieties from 70 countries to prove it
By Rachel Román
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