Blasting Away – Shofar

When is a shofar not a ram’s horn, and when can it be heard besides this time of year? The answer lies in Djerba and Yemen

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

Two rabbis, a stonemason’s guild, a Jewish merchant, and the archbishop of Cologne all helped solve the riddle presented by a magnificent, medieval prayer book found in Amsterdam

The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur – A Lubavitch Tale

Variations on a Hasidic story may reveal the fears and doubts of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneersohn, who led Chabad through Stalin’s persecutions and two world wars, transplanted it in America, and transformed his itinerant existence into a global brand