An apple-honey cake
Add some apples to your honey cake this year. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) In the spirit of trying new things and as the New Year approaches, here is a recipe from my kosher kitchen, a slightly different take on…
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Celebrate sweetness
The High Holidays are all about family and friends coming together and sharing a meal. Kosher Taste: Plan. Prepare. Plate (Feldheim, 2016) by Toronto-based Amy Stopnicki offers home cooks a new formula for kosher cooking, with more than 100 recipes…
This week’s cartoon … Sept. 23/16
How we pray to G-d
This year, Rosh Hashanah begins on the evening of Oct. 2. On the first day of the holiday, we read the Haftorah that tells us the story of Chana the prophetess, who prayed to G-d for a child. She prayed…
A Rosh Hashanah wakeup call
In just over a week, many of us will be in the synagogue. While listening to the sounds of the shofar, feel their power and reflect. (photo from Wikimedia Commons) Close your eyes and imagine yourself in the synagogue listening…
Yellow dates for New Year’s
To make biblical date honey, Middle Eastern Jews boil and press dates that range in color from yellow to brown. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) The Torah describes Israel as eretz zvat chalav u’dvash, the land flowing with milk and…
Making your own traditions
As an alternative or addition to synagogue services, you could find a nice place outside in which to pray or reflect. (photo by Jan Lieberman via Wikimedia Commons) There is a lot of beauty to the traditional synagogue experience. However,…
Can we all get along?
Women of the Wall was founded as a minyan of women from different movements coming together on common ground for Rosh Chodesh. (photo by Michal Patelle via Wikimedia Commons) In April 2015 – in the aftermath of the death of…
Ways to engage teens
Free Spirit Experience helps troubled teens “restart” their lives. (photo from freespiritexperience.org) Adolescence is a time of transition and confusion and teens themselves often don’t understand what’s happening. They frequently send mixed messages and get angry when adults do the…
This week’s cartoon … Sept. 16/16
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