Family Heirlooms come from many sources but they all have a set of qualities in common. They are unique, hand-crafted, made with love, unmistakably th...

In the lobby of his local library, a Man begins speaking Biblical Hebrew to author, Alon kaplan.

Alon Kaplan wonders why so many "Jewish Stories" begin with sentences like "once there was a poor peddler named Moishe" and offers suggestions about h...

Alon Kaplan is in on the birth of a new Yiddish slang word, coined by the son of a Presbytarian Minister.

The flattening out of Narrative has been going on for a long time in Jewish storytelling, specifically in the way that our midrashim (extrabiblical st...

If I could look inside my mind, I would probably find any number of not-so-gently-used ideas, thoughts, assumptions and theories - a good number of wh...

I spent part of last week telling stories to children at a wonderful Christian Bible Camp called Marketplace 29 A.D. For two days, ...

Gathered here is the outpouring of my mind - stories that I have told to children and adults, in synagogue and church, spurious theories, midrashim, p...