Toast, Trees and a Wassailing Queen: An Ancient English Ritual Is Back
The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.
How artists and scientists see tree branches similarly
Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...
Idina Menzel Dangles From the Heavens While Singing
Only cups of tea, a girl called Jesse, and someone in a tree.” Which is to say, somebody let Idina Menzel sing a song from her new musical Redwood in a real redwood (name unknown). Menzel shared a ...
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In Idina Menzel’s new Broadway musical, a show tune about Tikkun Olam soars high
A tough-as-bark climber with a passion for repairing the world uses Jewish wisdom to inspire in the new Broadway musical ...
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It’s tradition to plant trees in Israel for Tu B’Shvat. That custom has a dark history
When I was a child in Hebrew school in the early 2000s, and our teachers would offer us the opportunity to “plant a tree in ...