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Yom HaShoah Roundup

Today is Yom HaShoah, a day to remember and honor the lives of all those who were killed in the ...

Yud-Aleph-Tett-Samech…Jets! Jets! Jets!

Yom Kippur. The Super Bowl of Fast Days. The day where Jewish guilt is not only encouraged, but demanded.Feeling guilty ...

Eat Normal Food

We’re closing in on the end of this godforsaken holiday (har!) and I can practically taste the pizza I’ll be ...

How Do You Mark Your Passover Kitchen?

Until last year, my mother did the bulk of the Passover preparations in our family, which of course included tons ...

Sephardic Traditions Make My Brain Hurt

Being home for Passover has brought back a couple of memories from my past life. For one, Canada is cold. ...

White House Seder

The best part of the Daily Show’s coverage of the White House seder, may be John Stewart’s admission that most ...

Passover, A Time to Feel the Breeze All Over

I get frustrated with the Jewish world pretty much every day, but I have never in my life thought, “You ...

Who Knows Thirteen? (Answer Must Be In Ladino)

It is well established that my family is as dorky as it gets when it comes to languages and linguistics, ...

Zero Down, Forty-Nine To Go

I got a confession. Every year, it takes me approximately two days to forget to count the Omer. And that’s ...

Haggadah Word Cloud

I went over to Open Source Haggadah (an awesome resource for creating your own Haggadah) and grabbed the basic Haggadah ...

How To: Make Your Own Omer Counter

Counting the Omer is a pretty random mitzvah for those of us who wouldn’t otherwise count down the days to ...

Reconnecting to Passover’s Roots

Using Passover as an opportunity to go green.