Shehecheyanu
Recite this blessing the first time you do something each Jewish calendar year (e.g., the first night of Hanukkah when you light the menorah), and to mark joyous occasions.
Vegan Seven-Vegetable Soup with Matzah Balls
Vegan Matzah Balls
Vegan Sweet Potato Kugel
The walnuts in this sweet kugel give it great texture, and the quinoa flakes add just the right amount of moisture.
Vegan Walnut Lentil Pate
Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Matzah Squares
Galilee Diary: Rainy day
Tu Bishvat: Doing Something About It.
I consider myself an environmentalist. I write about the earth, think about the earth, care about the earth. I wrote my rabbinical thesis partly on Judaism and the environment, and I helped found en environmental advocacy committee in my synagogue.
It’s Hard to be a Jew at Christmas, But Even Harder on Tu BiSh’vat
It is a truth universally acknowledged that it can be difficult to be Jewish at Christmas time. It has seeped into North American cultural consciousness so thoroughly that South Park even wrote a song about it, complete with trademark expletives.