holidays

A Guide to 2014’s Alt-Holiday Music

Arts, Culture & Media

Diplo, The Killers, Liz Phair, and even Mark “Ebenezer” Kozelek release Christmas music this season. And it’s good!

Jenny Slate Presents: It’s a Wonderful Short

Arts, Culture & Media

Your Wonderful Holiday Shorts

Arts, Culture & Media

Jenny Slate Picks the Most Wonderful Short

Arts, Culture & Media

A Guide to 2015’s Alt-Holiday Music

Arts, Culture & Media

Vintage Valentines to Confuse and Amuse

Arts, Culture & Media

In its early days, the greeting card industry turned out some very weird Valentine’s Day cards.

Hazel Bethel is a Manischewitz wine devotee. She's originally from Trinidad and was introduced to the wine by friends who worked in Jewish homes in New York.

Is that Manischewitz? The Kosher wine is a hit in some Caribbean communities.

Food

The reason why some people of Caribbean descent enjoy a Jewish staple over the holidays.

Sausages and meat grill on a charcoal barbecue in a garden in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, June 7, 2016.

Here’s a little history behind those sausages you’ll grill for Fourth of July

Food

Almost all cultures across the world have some version of what we call sausage. In fact, throughout history, encased meat has been a human staple.

Orthodox Jewish men in costume read from a scroll of the biblical Book of Esther for the Jewish carnival holiday of Purim. The story tells the tale of an ancient Persian king whose viceroy hatches a plot to kill the Jews of the kingdom, a plot that is thw

Iranians and Israelis are in a battle over history — and the holiday of Purim

Belief

Jews celebrated the holiday of Purim this week, marking the survival of the Jewish people from an attempt by the Persian Empire to destroy them. But the holiday is controversial for some.

Skinny Lister

Irish punk bands, and some punks in Ireland you should already be listening to

Music

Here are eight bands from Ireland, or inspired by, that you should jam out to this St. Patrick’s Day.