Appreciating a Blanket of Snow
If you live in a northern climate, then the end of January might just be the beginning of the seasonal period when your attitude becomes “I’ve had enough snow, thank you.” And yet, while…
Resource Sharing
June 5 has been declared World Environment Day by the United Nations. In honor of this year’s theme, “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care,” Jewish Treats presents a brief…
Essential Sharing
Sharing Jewish Treats is a great way to help others discover Jewish inspiration.
More Than Sharing
If you own your own lulav and etrog set, after performing the mitzvah yourself, give the lulav and etrog as a gift to someone who doesn't have his/her own. The mitzvah cannot be performed…
Sharing
New school year...new school clothes. Give a family in need the school clothes your children have outgrown.
Sharing Shabbat
Know a family that has fallen on hard times? Invite them to share a Shabbat meal with you.
Yom Kippur 5766-2005
"Sharing the Blanket" by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald The Rambam (Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher, codifier and physician, 1135-1204), states in The Laws of Teshuva, chapter 3, that…
Bound to The Torah – the German Wimple Custom
Among the many communities that are categorized as Ashkenazim (Jews originally from central and eastern Europe), the descendants of German Jewry have maintained a distinct culture of…
Who Drinks the Water?
It’s a classic ethical dilemma: Two people are lost in the desert with only one water bottle. There is not enough water for both people to reach civilization. Who gets the water, or do…