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Vegan Seven-Vegetable Soup with Matzah Balls
This colorful soup is nutrient-rich and is great on its own or served topped with vegan matzah balls during Passover.
Vegan Borscht
This borscht recipe is really easy, and since it is served cold, you can make it ahead of time. The beets cook into a colorful soup for a festive addition to Jewish holiday meals.
Vegan Matzah Balls
The brilliance of this recipe is that you don't boil the matzah balls. You bake them! This way, they stay intact.
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
This Passover dish is simple to prepare. Serve as a hearty appetizer with crudite for dipping, or use as side dish alongside the main course.
Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Matzah Squares
These make for an amazing Passover treat! If peanuts don't conform to your Passover minhag, try using almond butter in this recipe instead.
Vegan Challah
Round challah symbolizes the cycle of the year and are traditional for Rosh HaShanah; challot are traditionally braided for Shabbat. Either way, the key to delicious challah is kneading the dough.
The Roots of Shabbat
According to traditional Jewish belief, the Sabbath has its origin in God’s divine command to observe the seventh day as a day of rest and sanctification.
Tu BiShvat: Customs and Rituals
The Jewish mystics of the 17th century, the Kabbalists, created a special ritual—modeled after the Passover seder—to celebrate God's presence in nature. Today in modern Israel, Tu BiShvat has become a national holiday, a tree planting festivaTu BiShvat is not mentioned in the Torah. Scholars believe the holiday was originally an agricultural festival, corresponding to the beginning of spring in Israel. But a critical historical event helped Tu BiShvat evolve from a simple celebration of spring to a commemoration of our connection to the land of Israel. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. and the exile that followed, many of the exiled Jews felt a need to bind themselves symbolically to their former homeland. Tu BiShvat served in part to fill that spiritual need. Jews used this time each year to eat a variety of fruits and nuts that could be obtained from Israel. The practice, a sort of physical association with the land, continued for many centuries.l for both Israelis and Jews throughout the world