Holidays

Rabbi Howard Alpert Lag B’Omer and Parshat Behar May 23 is Lag B’Omer — the 33rd day of the counting of the omer. Marking the occasion, bonfires...

By Rabbi Shawn Zevit Passover The Pesach seder remains the most observed Jewish festival home gathering to this day. Whether you observe one or two sedarim, the...

My daughter came home from college for the holiday weekend and offered to make the latest trendy-healthy comestible for our post-gym brunch. They also happened...

What does it mean for Jews to have succeeded in a particular country? It’s certainly more complicated than escaping significant harm at the hands of...

Is there another Jewish food as controversial as the jarred gefilte fish? Its mushy texture, that jellied broth, the fishy aroma that drifts through the...

This is the time we tell the story and we put ourselves into the story, Senior Rabbi Jill Maderer told members at a recent...

Frogs over here, frogs over there, frogs are jumping everywhere! Yes, it’s that time of year again, the holiday that features our hopping amphibian...

Cookbook author Jennifer Abadi accomplished something remarkable. In publishing Too Good To Passover: Sephardic & Judeo-Arabic Seder Menus and Memories from Africa, Asia, and Europe,...

“What would you like to eat on Passover?” I asked my granddaughters. “I’ll make anything you want,” opening a folder stuffed with favorite Pesach...

As Passover approaches, hosts often have a laser focus on the menu. This is understandable and appropriate, given that the seder is, first and...