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Tree Trimmings
While over the past seven years it's become incrementally easier, the pangs of discomfort still have me catching my breath when my Catholic husband drags...
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GingerBees-Gingerbread Maccabees (Biting someone's head off never tasted so good)!
I have had a serious hankering for gingerbread, which is ironic because I never used to like it. I find that since I officially hit...
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The Ultimate Shabbat How-To Guide
As Jews, we are given many gifts—and I’m not just talking about eight nights of presents on Chanukah. We get the gift of large families...
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Sacred Story-Telling
As we near the end of counting the fifty days between Passover and Shavuot, the Jewish Birth Network is counting down the days until...
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A Sober Person's Pesach
Growing up, I thought of Passover as one of the "fun" Jewish Holidays. Despite being a celebration of Exodus, the Jews escape from slavery in...
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The Perfect Passover Cookie: Walnut Mustachudos
Mention to me a cookie called a Walnut Mustachudo and my sense memories immediately recall my mother's White Meadow Temple Sisterhood Cookbook, circa 1980-something. Faded...
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300 Hamentashen Part 2
It's (well) after midnight. We did it. That's what 300+ hamentashen look like, all nestled up against each other's jam-filled bellies, nice and toasty...
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Looking at Christmas as a Jew
Now that I’m an “adult” (all of twenty-three, which everyone loves to remind me is still so young), I have such an affinity for this...
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20s & 30s
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Toasting the New Year
While an integral part of the Secular New Year, toasts are not traditionally part of the Rosh HaShanah table. Passover and Purim are known for...
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