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Memories of Matzo Balls: Chicken Soup for the Bowl!
Memories of Matzo Balls: Chicken Soup for the Bowl!
My version of the song “Memories” is a bit different than the one Barbra Streisand made famous… Memories Of the chicken soup we ate Misty golden-colored memories, Of the “weigh” we...
Apr 6, 2006
By Norene Gilletz
Purim Pleasures Fit for a Queen (or a Jewish Princess!)
Purim Pleasures Fit for a Queen (or a Jewish...
The quest for a recipe for Mohnlach began several weeks ago with a phone call from my mother’s cousin Roy. “Norene, maybe you can help me? I keep thinking about the...
Mar 10, 2006
By Norene Gilletz
A Williamsburg Purim
A Williamsburg Purim
Purim is one of the most joyous holidays of the Jewish calendar. On the 14th of Adar we celebrate a heroic victory over those out to destroy us, by recounting how...
Mar 8, 2006
By By Kitty Katz
The Wandering Purim Pie
The Wandering Purim Pie
The story of Purim is a tale of venahafoch hu – things turning around and about and turning out, much to everyone’s surprise, just right. Things like that happen nowadays too....
Mar 8, 2006
By By Yaffa Ganz
A Tu B’Shevat Prayer
A Tu B’Shevat Prayer
Sometimes I think I’ve been endowed with an overabundance of feelings. Things often seem to affect me more deeply than they do other people. I used to think this heightened sensitivity...
Feb 8, 2006
By By Yaffa Ganz
The Ancient Infant Within Us
The Ancient Infant Within Us
You and I know what it’s like, because we’re both human: the sense of innocence, and of having been wronged. The keen desire to craft some put-down that will diminish the...
Oct 11, 2005
By By Sarah Shapiro
What If?
What If?
What if the shofar sounded last week, last month, last year? And what if we slept right through it? We all have moments when we feel something deep within our hearts...
Sep 30, 2005
By By Shimon Apisdorf
Ki Tavo: Selichot Prior to Rosh HaShana – Part One
Ki Tavo: Selichot Prior to Rosh HaShana – Part...
The custom of reciting selichot (penitential prayers) in the days preceding Rosh HaShana is quite ancient, and is mentioned already in the early Rishonim. The custom of the Sephardim, as mentioned...
Jan 18, 2005
By Asher Meir
Shoftim: Confusing the Accuser – Part One
Shoftim: Confusing the Accuser – Part One
A theme which we encounter repeatedly in the mitzvah of Shofar is “confusing the accuser” (Satan). For instance: The Gemara tells us that we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashana both...
Jan 18, 2005
By Asher Meir

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