Selection of these articles are available in book form
in

Holidays, History and HalakhahHolidays, History and Halakhah

by Jason Aronson Publishers

In Those Days, At This TimeIn Those Days, At This Time: Holiness and History in the Jewish Calendar

by University of Calgary Press

Sanctified SeasonsSanctified Seasons

by CreateSpace for the Alberta Judaic Library

For Signs and for SeasonsFor Signs and for Seasons

by CreateSpace for the Alberta Judaic Library

Around the Calendar

  • Sabbath

    1. Tsholent
    2. Shabbat Candles: To See or Not to See"
    3. Angels on My Shoulders
    4. You Have Mail!
    5. Sabbath: To Feast or to Fast?
    6. A Fine Kettle of Fish

  • Passover

    1. Nisan: The First Month
    2. New, Newer...Newest Moon
    3. Don't Go Near the Water
    4. A Heavenly Herald (... and Some Housework)
    5. A Text Inscribed in Blood
    6. The Seder as a Living Tradition
    7. The Exodus of the Spirit
    8. That Remarkable Kid
    9. The Invisible Guest
    10. It Is the Season of Our Liberation
    11. The Great Passover Raisin-Wine Controversy
    12. Important Women
    13. Staging the Exodus
    14. Those Magnificent Men and Their Matzah Machines
    15. Back to Egypt
    16. "In Every Generation...": The Strange Omission in Rabbi Kalischer's Haggadah
    17. The Eggs and the Exodus
    18. Dressing for Success
    19. Hillel's Perplexing Passover Predicament
    20. Old King, New King
    21. Drip before You Sip
    22. Freshly Baked: A Matzah Mystery
    23. Thicker than Water
    24. Why Was This Haggadah Different?
    25. Children's Questions at Heart of Passover
    26. Thanks for the Mnemonics
    27. An Arrant Aramean
    28. A Kinder, Gentler Pharaoh?
    29. An Embarrassment of Riches
    30. A Seder with Solomon
    31. Seder Swordplay
    32. Who Knows "Who Knows One?"
    33. Pop Goes Passover
    34. Seventy-something
    35. Apples or Asphalt? In Search of the Perfect Haroset Recipe
    36. Lazy Ladies?
    37. Fractions, Factions and Afflictions
    38. Low Sodium Diet
    39. Red Sea, Reed Sea...and the Persian Gulf

  • The Omer Season

    1. New Light on an Ancient Ritual
    2. The Tragic History of the "Omer" Season
    3. Counting the Days
    4. Notes from the Underground
    5. Just a Little Bit Off the Top Please
    6. The Case of the Missing Omer
    7. Pyre, Pyre, Pants on Fire
    8. Fire from Water at Meron

  • Yom Ha-Atzma'ut and Yom Yerushalayim

    1. "Two Thousand Years"
    2. The Founding of Jerusalem: A Palestinian Midrash?
    3. Gathering the Dispersed of Israel
    4. That Old Blue Box
    5. Israel Rocks
    6. Hertz the Poet
    7. On Solid Ground
    8. Three Cheers for the White and Blue
    9. Borderline Cases
    10. A Blessed State
    11. Hebraic Headlines

  • Shavu'ot

    1. Obadiah the Proselyte
    2. Tradition or Compassion: A Shavu'ot Controversy
    3. The Greening of Shavu'ot
    4. Akdamut, Aramaic and Ashkenazic Origins
    5. Honey from the Tablets
    6. Crowning Achievement
    7. When Mount Sinai Was Lifted Up
    8. Renewing the Covenant at Qumran
    9. The High Road and the Low Road to Sinai
    10. Pulling an All-Nighter
    11. The Rainbow Anniversary
    12. First Fruits and Forefathers
    13. Two-Tiered Torah
    14. Poetry in Motion
    15. Extended Warranty
    16. Moses's Big Day
    17. Moses vs. the Angels
    18. ...Perchance to Dream

  • Rosh Hashanah

    1. The Day of Judgement
    2. "Into the Depths of the Sea": Tashlikh in Jewish Law and Lore
    3. Piyyut: The Poetry of Worship
    4. A Minyan for the Holidays
    5. What Year Is It Today?
    6. Dancing with the Demons
    7. Roman Holiday
    8. Where to Draw the Line
    9. Vanity, Emptiness and the Throne of Glory
    10. A Binding Disagreement
    11. Mosaic Musings
    12. Horn of Plenty
    13. Assault on the Angels
    14. Legend and Liturgy: The Elusive Tale of the Untanneh Tokef
    15. Joy or Judgment?
    16. The Sounds of Sinai
    17. New Year, New Moon
    18. Singing from the Same Hymn Book

  • Yom Kippur

    1. The Islamic Yom Kippur
    2. The Kol Nidre Controversy
    3. The Repentance of Nineveh
    4. Yom Kippur: Encounters with the Absolute
    5. Sins in the Balance
    6. Atoning for Esau
    7. The Ibn Ezra Code
    8. Pandemonium in the Pews
    9. Snap to Attention

  • Sukkot

    1. Hosanna
    2. Waving at the Winds
    3. I'm Bein' Followed by a Moonshadow
    4. Prince of Rain
    5. Come Gather 'Round People
    6. Torch Songs
    7. Citric Asset
    8. Just Passing Through
    9. Four Species, Five Opinions?
    10. No Kidding
    11. Simhat Torah: The Rabbis and the Rabble
    12. The Mysterious Origins of Simhat Torah
    13. Mr. Pepys' Outrageous Outing
    14. The Well-Groomed Torah Groom

  • Hanukkah

    1. "The Holy Maccabee Martyrs"
    2. By the Hanukkah Lights
    3. Hellenism Revisited
    4. "Because They Were Included in the Miracle"
    5. Heroes, Hammers and Hanukkah
    6. The Maccabees' Menorah and Titus' Menorah
    7. From Gelt to Gifts
    8. The Tomb of the Last Hasmonean?
    9. The Menorah and the Magi
    10. Getting a Handel on Hanukkah
    11. Burning Issues
    12. The Wicked Hasmonean Priest
    13. A Megillah for Hanukkah
    14. Assideans for Everyone
    15. Hanukkah by Star-Light
    16. Yesterday's Hero
    17. Eight Days a Week
    18. The Priestly Kings of Salem
    19. Natural Light
    20. Debatable Dates
    21. Eleazar Died for Our Sins
    22. Looking Forward to Hanukkah
    23. Valley Forgery
    24. Levi's War

  • The Fifteenth of Sh'vat

    1. The Incredible Plant-Man
    2. Apples and Apocalypse
    3. It Grows on Trees
    4. Renewable Resource
    5. Reading Palms
    6. That Mysterious Fragrance
    7. Turning Over a New Leaf
    8. Passion-Fruit or Brain-Food?
    9. Pardes Lost
    10. The Whispering Palms

  • Purim

    1. Purim, Parody and Pilpul
    2. The War Against Purim
    3. Vashti: A Feminist Heroine?
    4. Esther the Marrano
    5. Aquarian Esther
    6. Passing Through Shushan
    7. Troubles at Court
    8. The Purim-Shpiel and the Passion Play
    9. The Wise King Ahasuerus
    10. Esther and the Essenes
    11. Remembering Harbona: For Good or for Bad?
    12. Hanging Out with Vaiezatha
    13. Wall-to-Wall Purim
    14. Haman for All Seasons
    15. Stepladders and Stable-Hands
    16. Verify Your References
    17. Snap, Gragger, Pop!
    18. Poëma de la Reyna Ester
    19. The Show Must Go On
    20. A Dinner Fit for a Queen
    21. Mad about Mordecai

  • Miscellaneous

    1. January 1st
    2. On Matriarch Rachel and Mother's Day
    3. Columbus' Medinah?
    4. Calendar Conundrums

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