Judaism On One Foot

Here you will find posts that can teach you something about Judaism “on one foot,” i.e. in a nutshell.

The 17th of Tammuz
Aliyah
Beged Ish
Bentching
Bentching Gomel
Body Piercings
Can Orthodox Jews Wear Bright Colors?
Chametz, Kitniyot, and Gebruchts
Community Standards versus Travel
The Conversion Mikvah Visit
Converts and Birthright
Elul
Eruv
Ettiquette of Wishing Someone a Good Shabbos
Explaining the High Holidays to the Clueless in 30 Seconds
Explaining Kashrut to the Clueless
The Fast of the Firstborn
The Four Mitzvot of Purim
Hebrew Letters Are Also Numbers!
Hechshers
How to Carry Food and Drinks to a Shabbat Meal
How to Have Toilet Paper on Shabbat
Jesus Is Not Moshiach
The Ketubah and the Get
Lashon Hara
The Laws of Family Purity
List of Jewish Holidays with Hebrew Dates
Mezumen
Nicknames of Brachot
The Nine Days
Non-Mevushal Wine
Not Listening to Music
Nusach
“Off the Derech”
The Orthodox Dating Process
Praying Around Bad Smells
Rambam’s 13 Principles of Faith
Rosh Chodesh
The Seven Noachide Laws
Shabbat-Friendly Foods for the New Shabbos Observer
Slichot
Tattoos
Tisha B’Av
The Three Weeks
Types of Headcoverings for Women
Types of Kosher Meat
Tzedakah
Tznius
Vegetarians and Vegans
What to Bring to a Shabbat Meal
What to Call G-d in Conversation
What CAN I Do on Shabbat?
What CAN’T I Do on Shabbat?
What to Do During the Amidah/Shemonah Esrei
What Does a Beit Din Do?
What Does a Congregational Rabbi Do? (And what is he NOT?)
The Yetzer HaRa and the Yetzer HaTov (And how to defeat the Yetzer Hara)
Yom Kippur

Updated April 6, 2014