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Passover Raspberry Squares
Try this recipe for Passover raspberry squares, made with matzah meal and jam.
The Absolute, Hands-Down, Best Passover Apple Cake
The Absolute, Hands-Down, Best Passover Apple Cake recipe you will find on the internet... or anywhere!
Frozen Strawberry Meringue Torte
Try this frozen dessert with a macaroon nut crust for Passover this year!
Passover Chocolate-Nut-Apple Torte
This flourless Passover torte is made with matzah meal, walnuts, chocolate, apples, and more.
Orange Roast Brisket
Orange roast beef to enjoy with your friends and family on Rosh HaShanah, Shabbat, or Pesach!
Galilee Diary: Why is This Night Different?
"Tu" (the Hebrew abbreviation of 15th) in the month of Shvat was set (Hillel's opinion generally overrules Shammai's) as the beginning of the tithable year for tree fruit: Calculating the tithe on fruit starts again for fruit that sets after that date.
Happy Tu BiShvat: Environmental Responsibility in the Berkshires
During the wintertime, I try to drive up to the Berkshires as much as possible. As an assistant director at URJ Crane Lake Camp, I don’t get so much time to enjoy all that the Berkshires has to offer during the summer
Galilee Diary: Galilee encounters
Three encounters from a day with 50 students from HUC, spending their first year in Israel before beginning their studies at the stateside campuses.
Planting and Parenting: The Lessons of Tu BiShvat
Here is the quintessential Jewish question: How do we emulate God? We are told that we were created by God. We are told that we have a divine spark within us.
Galilee Diary: Leaving the desert behind
We learn in chapter 5 of Joshua that while the generation of the Exodus had been circumcised in Egypt, their children and grandchildren born in the desert had not been. And since only the circumcised may eat of the Passover sacrifice, it seems that this ritual too was not maintained during the forty years in the desert. Anyway, we couldn't have eaten matzah in the desert as we had no grain - only manna.