Tatte, I want to ask you the four questions...

The first question is why on all the other nights of the year, our house looks normal, but today the kitchen looks like an alien spaceship has landed, has landed.

The second question is why on all the other nights of the year, we eat normal vegetables and fruit but tonight mommy has peeled the ( Read more... )

So here's what's difficult: discounting the parts of the religion found in the texts.

Even with all my efforts to redefine Judaism as something I can find joy and meaning in, I am still stumped when it comes to actual texts that support the parts of religion that I can't stand.

Take the upcoming holiday of Pesach. For many families, it is the ( Read more... )

Pesach is one of the more ironic holidays, particularly because of the cleaning.

One aspect of this irony is pretty well known. To celebrate our freedom from slavery, many will exhaust themselves cleaning and cooking and shopping and blow-torching and foiling and peeling and serving and ... to the point that many women do not end up functional ( Read more... )