An Interview With the Family Tree-Obsessed, A.J. Jacobs
Studying your genealogy can tell you a lot of surprising things. Especially when you're Ashkenazi.
Sometimes God just wants to turn into a bush
A grand mission, magic rod, and free goat burger Fridays
The Abu Dhabi Mitzvah–the Heeb Review
Levinson gives an engaging depiction of both people and places, and one can understand, both in his humor and outlook, how he would have inspired so many people along the way to participate one way or another in his meanderings.
Revenge is Best Served to Siblings
Plus: The incredible power of a fake moustache
And You Think Your Family Doesn’t Get You
Just be grateful you haven't been sold into slavery yet.
You Can’t Trust a Big Veil and a Smile
The undoing of double standards in the days of the Bible
I Was Fifteen When I Met Allen Ginsberg
The late Matthew Power's elegy to a friend and lover
The World’s First Known Case of Sciatica
Plus: the Biblical case for keeping your foreskin
Why Marrying for Love is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Especially when it's your cousin
A Modest Proposal for the “Vanishing American Jew”
Inside the world of polyamorous Jews
Our Stomachs, Ourselves
Gastrointestinal diseases and the Jews that have them
