Celebrate

Blessings beyond borders – an interfaith tale

Last Saturday evening I was given an opportunity to be part of a truly wonderful celebration – the Sweet 16 ...

Before you head off into the wonders/horrors of a three day yom tov there’s still time for one more dairy ...

It’s customary to stay up all night learning Torah on the first night of Shavuot. Though I used to pull ...

Blintzes have had a long and happy relationship with Shavuot. As I mentioned yesterday, Shavuot and cheese go together like ...

When in doubt, break out the puff pastry. Easy to work with, and always yielding a mouth-watering result, you really ...

When we moved to Chicago, my roommate and I decided we wanted to have a dairy-only kitchen. We had a ...

Sipping margaritas, doing shots of tequila, listening mariachi music and dancing the hora.Not in a million years would I have ...

Almost eight years ago, on the evening of April 22nd, after a full day of labor, my husband Rick and ...

We often flow unaware from one moment on the calendar to the next. There are too many times where we ...

This week Jon Stewart called for the Jews to “take it up a notch” since our traditions couldn’t possibly compete ...

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...