Archive for May, 2007

Lite Summer Sabbath Lunch: Menu and Recipes

 

Those long, hot, summer Sabbath days are just around the corner. Days for relaxing with family and friends, reading, resting and recharging our batteries for the work week ahead. These days call for lite - but still festive - lunch menus. This summer Shabbat menu includes a variety of salads a…

Who says I have a Birthright?

 

According to BirthrightIsrael.com there have been over 120,000 people from around the world who have taken their “birthright� to Israel.

I don’t know about everyone else, but I almost feel embarrassed explaining to my non-Jewish friends the thinking behind the organization. It’s har…

Kosher Food = Kleaner Food

 

A lot of gentiles don’t understand what kosher food is all about. They think it’s just restrictive religious law, that it doesn’t matter and it’s just a waste of time. Well it isn’t! Kosher food is, to quote the title, “Kleaner Food.â€? The food we Jews eat is more sanitary and itâ…

Jewish Music - Rabbis Take the Stage - Video

Living in the U.S., I know very little about the Jewish Music scene in other countries with the exception of Israel. It’s interesting to note ( pun intended?) that 2 orthodox Rabbis have been jazzing up the Jewish Music scene in Manchester.Their names are Rabbi Danny Bergson and Rabbi Mitch Go…

What is the Jewish way to assemble sense of death?

Question:
An old friend of the family just passed away as a outcome of a tragic accident. What is the Jewish way to help build sense of all of that?
Answer:
As the years pass, we witness death many times, but the passing of a close friend is different than any other passing. In a way, a part of us d…

What’s the best way to deal with parents who hate their Judaism?

I have self-hating jewish parents…what shall I do….they hate their judaism (they are in their 50’s and felt this way all their lives ) any suggestions ?

Post by Michael 

What is Challah?

 

A. The pure, simple, unadorned word “Challah� means “a loaf of bread.� However, in Halachic terms, the word Challah has a very specific definition, and colloquially, it came to mean a certain type of bread thousands of years later.

B. The Halachic definition of Challah is a referenc…

It’s easy to keep kosher on the go

Until recently, anyone who kept kosher and traveled to any place other than a big city with a large Jewish population had a tough time. It was and still is hard to find kosher restaurants in most places. And if your travels took you to some remote area, you had to take along an enormous amount …

*Kosher Spam

They just busted him in Seattle. And by they I mean the Feds. And by him I mean, one of the top 10 spammers in the world, Robert Alan Soloway.

For those of you who don’t feel like reading that article, relax and know that you will definitely see less spam in your inbox now.

I have attached…

Who Is a Jew?

A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.

It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish parents who has not undergone the formal …

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