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Blending Faiths and Food During Hanukkah
Hanukkah begins Friday. For this week's food segment, New York Times food writer Joan Nathan guides us on how to make Jewish food if you're new to the family and come from a different religious...
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Food: Understanding the Jewish Love Affair with Chinese Food
What's behind the unique relationship that Jewish people have with Chinese food? Jennifer 8 Lee, author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food," says there's an long...
View ArticleJonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander on their 'New American Haggadah'
The Haggadah, the Jewish religious text read at Passover, is 3,000 years old. It has been translated more than any Jewish book, from ancient times, to 14th-century Sarajevo, to the just-published "New...
View ArticleHow to Make Passover Sangria
Last night marked the first night of Passover, which commemorates the freedom of the Jews from slavery in ancient Egypt.Around the world, Jewish families sat down to take part in Seder, a traditional...
View ArticleAmerica: Israel's Best Friend?
Secretary of State John Kerry has fallen short on his diplomatic efforts to end the fighting in Gaza. Now, he's looking to salvage talks for a temporary cease fire, and is keeping the door open to...
View ArticleAccusations Fly in Wake of Argentine Prosecutor's Mysterious Death
Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman's body was found beside the gun that shot him. His death comes mere days after he accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and top members of her...
View ArticleThe Battle Against Hitler: A Portrait of Defiance & Courage
Today, 300 former prisoners gather at the site of an unspeakable atrocity to mark an anniversary and recall their stories of survival.Seventy years ago today, on January 27, 1945, Soviet forces...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks on The Refugee Crisis: Time for Compassion to Triumph
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.“Europe is being tested as it has not been tested since the Second World War,” says Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom from...
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Avivah Zornberg — Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories
The biblical Exodus story has inspired believers and non-believers, Jews and Christians — and more than a few Hollywood movies. But this is no simple story of heroes and villains; it is a complex...
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[Unedited] Mohammad Darawshe with Krista Tippett
Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel's population, he is, as he puts it, a child of both identities. He...
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Mohammad Darawshe — Children of Both Identities
Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel's population, he is, as he puts it, a child of both identities. He...
View ArticleRemember Us Unto Life
"Remember Us Unto Life" is a one-hour celebration of Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement - eight days known as the Jewish High Holidays.The program takes the form...
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Niche Market | Sukkahs
New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market takes a peek inside a different specialty store and showcases the city's purists who...
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[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett
Astrophysicist Mario Livio works with science the Hubble Space Telescope makes possible. He is not a religious person. But he's fascinated with the enduring mystery of the very language of science,...
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Mario Livio — Who Ordered This? New Mysteries of an Expanding Universe [remix]
Astrophysicist Mario Livio works with science the Hubble Space Telescope makes possible. He is not a religious person. But he's fascinated with the enduring mystery of the very language of science,...
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[Unedited] Scott-Martin Kosofsky with Krista Tippett
Scott-Martin Kosofsky is a book composer, typographer, and author of "The Book of Customs." Krista Tippett spoke with him on November 2, 2004 from the studios of APM in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Mr....
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Scott-Martin Kosofsky — Legends to Live By
Could a Yiddish text from the Middle Ages serve as a guide to living now? Book composer and typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky revives unlikely sources of "customs" for leading a modern life and marking...
View ArticleUnorthodox
Deborah Feldman talks about what it’s like inside the Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism. In her memoir, Unorthodox, she reveals what life is like in a religious tradition that she believes values silence...
View ArticleJonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander's New American Haggadah
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander discuss The New American Haggadah, their take on a traditional Passover prayer book. The Haggadah recounts, through prayer, song, and ritual, the extraordinary...
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Niche Market | Passover Judaica
New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists...
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