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In the kitchen, left to right, are Stacey Kettleman, Leah Reghatti, Francie Steen, Deborah and David Freedman, Shelley Ail and Linda Rothberg. (photo from Beth Tikvah) This Purim, Beth Tikvah Congregation packaged more than 240 holiday bundles, delivering one to…
Chicken soup with matzah balls is a staple of the Ashkenazi Passover seder; for meat-eaters, at least. (photo from onceuponachef.com) My father used to start the seder with a joke. One I remember was: Abe goes to see his boss…
Ask any young child, and even some of the older ones, what is the best part of the seder, and the answer will probably be – looking for the afikoman. The afikoman is the name of the middle of the…
Cabbage matzah never tasted so … good? (photo from pixabay.com) Have you ever eaten cabbage matzah? Probably not. But, in Chelm, the village of fools, they still talk about it…. Many winters ago, to battle an outburst of influenza, the…
An image from the author’s 1941 Passover Haggadah by Saul Raskin. Although they are not specifically mentioned in either the Haggadah or in the Torah, Egyptian pyramids have come to be associated with the Pesach story. That many modern Haggadot…
(photo from pngkey.com) Imagine that you are sitting at your kitchen table, sewing masks for your family so that you can go outside. There are no more masks left in stock in any store near you so you are left…
Cookie + Kate’s creamy roasted carrot soup, as made by the Accidental Balabusta. (photo by Shelley Civkin) Nothing screams for comfort food quite like a COVID-19 pandemic. And nothing spells comfort food quite like soup. So, while the spirit of sharing…
(photo from narcity.com) While pasta and cheese casseroles are recorded as early as the 14th-century, the first modern recipe appeared in an English cookbook in 1770. The story is also told that President Thomas Jefferson and his chef brought the…
Aaron Dewitt put the Feb. 12 issue of the Jewish Independent to good use on Purim – after reading it from cover to cover, we trust. (photo by Rahel Halabe)
“Queen Esther Revealing Her True Identity” by Lilian Broca. “Queen Esther Revealing Her True Identity” is the last mosaic of artist Lilian Broca’s Queen Esther Mosaics Series in chronological order. A mature and confident Queen Esther in her most expensive…
