Keeping Kosher

Post-Passover Debriefing

Passover is (finally) over and that means that…it’s time to start preparing for next Passover.Okay, now before you kill me ...

Ready, Set….Passover!

When I was a little girl and I would spend time with my grandparents, they would be planning dinner while ...

Cookie Season

‘Tis the season of….cookies! Jewish or not, I love a time of year that embraces cookie baking, cookie decorating and ...

Gluhwein (Mulled Wine)

My husband and I aren’t really the sit-on-a-beach-for-a-week types, so instead of a beach vaca for our honeymoon, we went ...

Bubbe’s Mushroom Challah Dressing

Definitely a holiday dish everyone can agree on.

Pigging Out … Or Not

So there’s this website called Pork Memoirs.Dedicated to sharing “personal stories about a complicated meat,” the site explores personal identity ...

Circumspect Conversations about Circumcision

This week we heard news from Germany that a regional court ruled that circumcision amounts to bodily harm, even if ...

Fit to Eat

There has been a lot of talk about kashrut lately. And while some of it has been related to foods ...

What’s In The Beef?

Like so many kosher cooks around the country, you have probably recently wondered if there is pink slime, the ammonia-treated-meat-scrap-mixture ...

New Kosher Food Truck in Philly!

Good news for the Jews of Philly — Max and David’s, a kosher restaurant in the Philadelphia area, will soon be ...

Best of the Crockpot

Admittedly, I am not much of a crock pot user. The only time we break ours out is for cholent ...

Pork: The Other Medicinal Remedy?

I’m not much of a pill popper, and am typically happy to explore alternative ways to solve (minor) physical ailments. ...