April 2015
Jewish Mexico: It’s not an Oxymoron
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Birria of Lamb Shanks
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- It’s time to talk about Purim’s unsettling message about conversionPurim is meant to be loud: a holiday for drinking, dressing up, yelling and retelling a story of miraculous survival. Which means it’s easy to miss a brief but significant verse near the end of the Book of Esther — one that deserves to be lingered over: “And many of the people of the land... […]
- How a deeply religious Christian artist captured the spirit of the Jewish holy landI was briskly walking down the main drag of a swanky neighborhood in Seattle when I saw a faded, old-timey lithograph in the window of an art store. It was a landscape with a fortress built into the cascading side of a massive, dry and desolate canyon. The location was as far from green and... […]