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Bread Kugel with Dried Fruit and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Combines many of the flavors and foods found in Spain and Portugal with the classic technique for making a bread kugel.
Carrot Tzimmes with Dumplings
According to The Rosh Hashanah Anthology, the eating of carrot tzimmes is accompanied by the expression, "May it be Thy will that our merits will be increased."
Seder Plate Salad
This salad makes a nice lunch or light dinner during Chol HaMo-eid, the nonholiday days of Passover.
Herb Salad with Feta Cheese, Halvah, and Green Almonds
The Persian tradition of a sabzi platter – aromatic herbs, radishes, alliums, salty feta, and sweet halvah – is equally delicious in salad form and a great way to use up all those extra herbs you may have bought for your seder.
Kale, Mango, and Almond Salad with Honey Ginger Dressing
You'll be promoting good health when you serve this kale salad!
Key Lime Pie for Passover
Here’s an easy, fool-proof key lime pie with a delicious matzah meal crust!
Mock Mac and Cheese for Passover
Kids especially love this recipe during Passover week, which can feel like a long time without bread, pizza, and pasta!
A Jewish Family's Unique Fourth of July Tradition
Every year on the Fourth of July, my mother and stepfather host about 50 people, newborns to retirees, at a multigenerational backyard party at their home in suburban New Jersey. We schmooze around the grill, cool off in the pool or with a beer, and shuck corn on the cob. My sister Barrie makes an American flag berry cake, and my sister Cheryl makes a cake that looks like a hamburger. Fireworks light the night sky. It’s all typical Independence Day stuff. But we also do something unique that I wish were more universal: We mindfully read aloud the Declaration of Independence.
Putting Down Roots: Why Our Jewish Family Needs a Yard Full of Trees
We celebrated the holiday of Tu BiShvat – the “Jewish Arbor Day” – way back in February, and we won’t celebrate it again until January. But no matter: I need to talk about the trees now.
7 Ways to Celebrate Tu BiShvat – Even in the Winter
For many of us, Tu BiShvat, the Jewish holiday that celebrates trees and the earth, falls in the middle of the coldest, snowiest part of the year. Nonetheless, here are seven ways you can celebrate the new year of the trees and planet Earth