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.
Passover Raspberry Squares
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
Passover Chocolate-Nut-Apple Torte
Orange Roast Brisket
Orange roast beef to enjoy with your friends and family on Rosh HaShanah, Shabbat, or Pesach!
Galilee Diary: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke
…So I know the sea was not split in vain Deserts not crossed in vain – If at the end of the story stand Daddy and the kid Looking forward and knowing their turn will come. -from "The Kid of the Haggadah" by Nathan Alterman (trans. Arthur Waskow and Judy Spelman)
The Passover Order
I did not grow up in a kosher home. In fact, I refer to the home in which I was raised as “glatt treiff.” My becoming a bar mitzvah in 1973 coincided with my mother’s personal liberation.
My Musical Haggadah: Israeli Music Retells the Story of Our Exodus
Conservation from Farm to Fork
Last Sunday marked the 42nd annual Earth Day, a celebration of our natural world and recognition of the important role humans play in protecting it by living within our means.