News and Politics

Morning Jew: Dissecting Rev. Louis Farrakhan on Jews and Sports

By Heather Gold and Katie Halper

Zeek enjoys partnering with comics Katie Halper and Heather Gold to bring you Morning Jew, a takedown of morning news shows, talking heads, and the news itself. Nu, they ask, are the headlines good for the Jews?

Faith and Practice

Let It Go: From the Mountaintop to the Field

By Shuli Passow

How taking a fresh look at Shavuot, Sinai and shmita can nourish the spiritual side of our activism — and help us embrace letting go and the “content of our covenant.”

Faith and Practice

Under Your Tongue: Fresh Farmers Cheese Pie with Rhubarb-Rose Compote

By Erin Patinkin

You could always drop what you’re doing and stock up on ingredients for this dairy Shavuot recipe, created by Erin Patinkin, co-founder of Ovenly, dubbed “Best Bakery 2013” by Time Out New York.

Faith and Practice

This Year's Revelation

By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

What if God’s revelation to us this year were an instruction to rise above polarization?

Everyone knows Passover. Everyone knows the High Holidays. But what’s so special about Shavuot? In a word: revelation.

Life and Action

ZEEK PRESENTS: Shavuot & Social Change--June 3 in NYC

ZEEK PRESENTS Shavuot & Social Change with Zeek editor Erica Brody, writer-activist Sarah Seltzer, and Marjorie Dove Kent of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

How can Shavuot help us think more creatively and deeply about what it means to be a Jewish change-maker in New York? Zeek editor Erica Brody, writer-activist Sarah Seltzer, and activist and Marjorie Dove Kent of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice team up to lead this highly interactive conversation/workshop. This is our first public event since we relaunched!

Arts and Culture

Artist Q, Artist A: Yona Verwer Talks to Mirta Kupferminc

By Yona Verwer

“Artists Are Communicators,” merging identities, the Argentine art scene, and what it’s like to be an international LABA fellow based in Buenos Aires.

News and Politics

Morning Jew: You Think Your Divorce Was Torture?

By Heather Gold and Katie Halper

News and Politics

Eyes on Jewish Education, Beyond East Ramapo — Why We Need More than Oversight as Schools Under Hasidic Control Fail NY Children

By Miriam Moster

When Cosmos debuted, my husband was in awe. He had taken a biology course as an undergraduate, but that had been his first and only encounter with science. Newton, physics, history of science, evolution — none of those had existed for him before the age of 21. He had attended Belz Yeshiva — first in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, then in Israel. Read More

News and Politics

Two (Jew)Faced: Katy Perry & Macklemore: Should We Be Willing To Be Mocked More? -- Morning Jew, with Guest Jessie Kahnweiler

By Heather Gold and Katie Halper

This week Macklemore and Katy Perry decided to see if pop culture would accept “Jew face.” This and more with our fabulous guest, the very funny filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler @shegotchutzpah.