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Use Your Etrog With These 5 Recipes
Sukkot is over (holidays are over finally – yay) and it’s back to normal life again. Now, what to do ...
Feeding While Fasting – A New Beginning
Across the world yesterday or today, Jews celebrate Simchat Torah, the conclusion of the Festival of Sukkot. Simchat Torah is ...
That Time the Lulav Made Me Cry
I love the holiday season – I even love a three day yontif (yom tov, or holiday). With the exception ...
A Moonstone for the Feast of Tabernacles: Celebrating Sukkot as a part of a Jewish and Queer Community
The theory of a sukkah feels queer to me – a temporary, self-built space for the purpose of shelter, but ...
Simchat Torah… With a Little More Torah This Time
Many of my most formative experiences and Jewish-identity-markers have had two things in common: they were highly competitive, and involved ...
Sukkot and Simchat Torah: Resources and Reflections
This year we’ve rounded up a menu of our past Sukkot and Simchat Torah posts for you to explore. Below you’ll find resource guides, rabbinical ...
Wind and Rain, Resilience and Abundance
Earlier this week in the Pacific Northwest we waited for a storm that wasn’t.A big storm of heavy rain and ...
Living With Death
Death is a problem. It is death that seems to suck the meaning out of life. If it is all ...
What is a Kishke?
One food you’ve probably heard of, but haven’t ventured to cook is kishke. It’s a sausage-like dish that appears buried ...
Reflections on Liturgy of the High Holy Days
We spent the whole morning of prayers during the High Holidays on our pleas for forgiveness from God, and our ...
7 Global Jews To Enrich Your Sukkot Celebration
At Sukkot the custom of Ushpizin, offers us a chance, to be as welcoming and as inclusive as we would ...
Yom Kippur Is Important. The Day After Is Even More So.
We sat in synagogue most, if not all, of the day. We didn’t eat. We thought about the ways we missed ...