Here are sources for a shiur on the cusoms of Tu Bishvat and their sources: - Why do some people not say tahanun on Tu Bishvat? - Why do s...

The Pesach Seder ends, as everyone knows, with the song "Chad Gadya" - "One Kid". The song begins with a pet goat, and...

I came accross an interesting line in the Gemara the other day. Kiddushin 46a cites a baraita which the Amoraim find confusing. Rabbi Yohana...

This advertisement from 1964 is one of the reasons that Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in the presidential campaign with the lar...

The BBC has a good article about Mike the Headless Chicken. Seventy years ago today a legend was created: On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olse...