Menu for the New Year
Be creative and incorporate traditional foods such as apples, honey and pomegranates into you Rosh Hashana meals.
In Honor of the New Month
Do something special in honor of Rosh Chodesh: have a special dinner, get together with friends, etc.
For the New Month
As both tonight, the last night of the month of Shevat, and tomorrow night, the first night of Adar I, are treated as Rosh Chodesh, prepare something special for dinner to mark the…
Pinchas 5763-2003
"Can a Perfect G-d Sin?" by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald This week's parasha, parashat Pinchas, is replete with fascinating narratives. The parasha opens with G-d's reward to Pinchas for his…
Saying Hello
The Jewish calendar, unlike the secular/Gregorian calendar, is a lunar calendar. The first commandment given to the Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 12) is to count and begin the months with…
Moonbeam
December 21, 1968/30 Kislev 5729 was the day on which the world held its breath as American astronauts set out for the moon. On this day, Apollo 8, with its three member crew, was…
Spin the Dreidel
I have a little dreidel I made it out of clay And when it’s dry and ready With dreidel I shall play! The dreidel is a four sided top, with a single Hebrew letter on each of its sides.…
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Judaism vs. Hellenism
Judaism vs. Hellenism Why did the interaction of the Greeks and the Jews create such problems? What was there about Hellenism…