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During the holiday of Passover, many Jews eschew bread, as well as most other grain products that might be leavened, or risen: Crackers, bagels, pasta, cake, and even beer (the latter is made from fermented barley, a Passover no-no). At a brewery just outside Portland, Oregon, brewmaster Tom Kramer produces a batch of his own microbrew….flavored with, you guessed it, matzah. Every […]

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Two years ago, the Israeli singer Kobi Oz released his solo debut, Psalms for the Perplexed (check out our review here). The title played on two classic Jewish texts, Guide for the Perplexed and the Book of Psalms, and the album broke all sorts of boundaries–it featured a non-Orthodox Israeli singing about God in pop music. Most remarkable of […]

Have you ever wondered what font the Torah was originally written in? It might have been the font that the Mishnah calls Ashuri, which is what comes to mind when most of us think about Hebrew. But there’s another style of Hebrew writing called Paleo-Hebrew. Scholars today simply call it “Ktav Ivri,” or “Hebrew writing,” even though most contemporary Hebrew readers would never identify […]

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