Jewish Treats

Pareve Cake

  If you are planning to have a birthday barbeque, where you know meat will be served, used soy or rice milk in place of dairy milk when baking dessert.

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Jewish Treats

Jews and Chocolate Chips

Happy National Chocolate Chip Day, not to be confused with National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, which falls annually on August 4th. Legend maintains that chocolate chips, also known as…

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Jewish Treats

Or The Egg

For those starting the study of kashrut (Jewish dietary laws), the status of eggs is almost always one of the first issues encountered. Since an egg comes from a chicken (or other kosher…

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Shemini,Weekly Message

Shemini 5766-2006

"Those Remarkable Dietary Laws" by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald This week's parasha, parashat Shemini, embarks on an extensive excursion, that is devoted to the Jewish dietary laws. In fact,…

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Shemini,Weekly Message

Shemini 5784-2024

“Those Remarkable Dietary Laws” (updated and revised from Shemini 5766-2006) by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald This week’s parasha, parashat Shemini, contains an extensive excursion into the…

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Jewish Treats

My Chicken Doesn’t Moo

Poultry has an interesting status in the world of Jewish law. It is the paradigm of rabbinic jurisdiction, underscoring the fact that the sages of the Talmud have the authority to…

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Passover Squash Kugel

TraditionalPassover Squash Kugel (Pareve) Recipe submitted by Debby Goldman.  Ingredients: 1½ green squash, peeled 1 med.…

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Charoset

TraditionalCharoset (Pareve) Suibmitted by: Rosalind Rosenbaum This delicious combination of wine, nuts, and apples is eaten…

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Passover Crepes with Mushroom Sauce

TraditionalPassover Crepes With Mushroom Sauce (pareve) Recipe submitted by Rachel Goldberg. Ingredients: 5 eggs 1/2 cup of…

Tzav,Weekly Message,Passover

Tzav–Passover 1 5778-2018

“Making Holiness Contagious” by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald In this week’s parasha, parashat Tzav, we are reintroduced to the laws of the Mincha, מִנְחָה , the meal offering, that were…

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