Shema Arielle, It’s that time of year. The new year is upon us, and the countdown to Yom Kippur has commenced. I want to make myself look good here, but there’s no way to sugarcoat it. I screwed up.  My relationship went south a few weeks ago and at the time of the split, I denied any wrongdoing. I did not realize it, but with time I can admit the fault is on my end… Like, 99% of it. Yom Kippur is approaching, and I feel like I must atone. With Hashem but also with my Ex. I don’t want to get back together with her and I want to be respectful of her space. But shouldn’t I fulfill my obliga ..read more

The new year is finally upon us. And a new playlist was due. For your listening pleasure, way too many versions of Avinu Malkeinu, nigunim, Fiddler on the Roof, and of course, the trending Miami Boys Choir. Shana Tova U’metuka from us at Jewcy Mag! Make sure to hit the follow button on our Spotify for more playlists this (((holiday season))). This article was originally published in Jewcy’s substack The Weekly Jewce. The post A Very Jewcy Rosh Hashanah appeared first on Jewcy ..read more

Hey Bubbela,  Tell your boyfriend that if he loves foreskin so much then he should just marry it. Intactivists (lame name) Andrew Yang and Howard Stern can be the flower girls. Can you believe that Howard Stern is anti-circumcision? What a shanda. Welp, at least he’s a Zionist.  Here’s a quote from an unhinged Stern on a podcast in conversation with anti-circumcision activist Ron Low:  “Ron, I agree with you that men should not be circumcised, that when a baby is born . . . I don’t know where this circumcision came from, some people feel it’s a religious thin ..read more

Shema Arielle, I have a complaint. What is with Jewish men being fetishized now and called “ugly-hot” (what?) but Jewish women getting bubkis? I’m seeing too much of Josh Peck and not enough of Natasha Lyonne. Us Jewish women are hot and great at sex, and yet we’ve gotten no noise since La Belle Juive?! The media’s neglect of our demographic is irresponsible at best and sexist at worst. Why are our men being pimped out and our ladies gate-kept? Arielle, I’m worried. What can we do? Schtupless in Seattle Hey Bubbela,  Thanks for filing your complaint. I totally agree that Jewish women shou ..read more

Forgive me, Arielle, For I have sinned. Here’s hoping you can help me redeem some mitzvah points…  Last week, I had a Nice Jewish Suitor over for dinner. I cooked chicken schnitzel, pearl couscous with zucchini, and served an Israeli-style salad — sounds kosher, right? WRONG! Despite my best effort to serve his majesty a kosher meal fit for King Solomon, I utterly failed.  The culprit was the treif salad dressing, of all things! The real kicker is how I even discovered the unkosher poison. My NJS raved about the salad dressing so I showed him the bottle of white wine vinegar that dow ..read more

Shema Arielle,  Remember the funny guy from before that I was supposed to be straight up with… well, that never happened. BUT, we are seeing each other again consistently-ish. Oy. Now that it’s been quite a few months of this back and forth, I find myself wondering… am I in a relationship? We certainly haven’t put any words to it and we don’t seem to be progressing. But we are becoming attached to each other. Well, at least I am. Last night I found myself Googling “how often should you be seeing your partner” and “how often should you be texting your partner.” Silly, right? But having nev ..read more

Florence Cohen didn’t set out to become a kosher cheesemaker. Born in New Jersey to a family of Syrian Jews, she fell into cheesemaking by chance. “My grandmother taught her cheese recipe at the Sephardic Community Center, and she asked me to help her teach it. When I learned how to make the cheese, I was fascinated by the whole process. Our community was raised on this traditional type of [Syrian] cheese. I loved it growing up and I could not believe how hard it was to make,” she said, referring to a traditional hand-braided mozzarella cheese that is familiar to many Jewish families with Syri ..read more

Shema, Arielle I’m going to keep this short and sweet: I have a crush on my Rabbi. I’ve been taking classes at my synagogue and meeting with him monthly to discuss my studies for the past year. He’s obviously wildly smart, wise, and HOT (mid-30’s to my early 30’s), and it feels like he sees deep into my soul whenever we meet. He also has amazing taste in music.  I know he’s single because 1) we’ve bonded over our relationship statuses in relation to the loneliness of keeping Shabbat during quarantine as single people 2) his dating app profile comes up for me constantly. So like, is he tot ..read more

In Parshat Behar, G-d tells Moshe about the laws of the shemitah year. The shemitah year, the seventh in a seven-year cycle, parallels Shabbat. On a weekly level, we work for six days, plowing and harvesting our fields, and on the seventh day we rest. During the shemitah cycle, farmers work their land and reap the rewards for six years, and on the seventh year, they cannot work their fields, do anything to help crops grow, harvest crops, or consume anything that grows on their land. The produce from the sixth year would be bountiful enough to provide for both that year and the next: a reward f ..read more

Shema Arielle,  I’m a recent convert and despite the fact that I have dated a disproportionate number of Jewish women in my life, my current partner isn’t Jewish. My issue is that the more I get involved in my shul and the local Jewish community — attending events, volunteering, hosting Shabbat dinners — the more strain I’m feeling in the relationship. She’s an atheist, but her family are pretty strict Catholics, and I’m afraid my religious fervor is turning her away. I do care for her, so should I stick it out and just have two separate parts of my life, or end things and find a NJG? Tha ..read more