Holidays

Food
Inside the Mexican Jewish ‘Cocina’
New cookbooks from Mexico offer treasured family recipes with modern techniques.

New cookbooks from Mexico offer treasured family recipes with modern techniques.
Food
Vegetables Take Center Stage at the Jewish Holiday Table
A handful of new cookbooks prove that vegetables have been integral to Jewish food traditions for centuries.

A handful of new cookbooks prove that vegetables have been integral to Jewish food traditions for centuries.
Food
High Holiday Recipes From Israeli Bloggers
A number of Israeli women have harnessed the power of social media and other virtual spheres to launch and grow their careers in food.

A number of Israeli women have harnessed the power of social media and other virtual spheres to launch and grow their careers in food.
Environmental Justice Through a Jewish Lens
Let’s make bold plans to protect the earth together.

Let’s make bold plans to protect the earth together.
Food
Challah Stuffed With Sweet and Savory Fillings
The most exciting part about eating a stuffed challah is slicing or tearing the bread open to discover the sweet or savory filling.

The most exciting part about eating a stuffed challah is slicing or tearing the bread open to discover the sweet or savory filling.

A Menu Unlike Other Nights: Seder Dinner

While the “appetizers” for Seder nights are religiously predetermined—think haroset, hardboiled eggs and the Hillel sandwich—the actual dinner remains pleasantly free of ritual dishes (unless

Holidays

On All Other Nights…of Passover: Hol Hamoed Menus

by Libby Barnea

The middle days of Passover are when cooking and menu planning become a challenge—when you’re not necessarily looking to impress large crowds and, more than

Holidays

Letter from Corvallis: Seder in the House of Bondage

by Michael Peck

The metal detector at the outer gate of the Oregon State Correctional Institution did not perturb me. Nor did the fact that I had to

Holidays

Hanukka Gift Guide 2013

Hanukka celebrations include family and tradition, good food and get-togethers and, of course, dreidel showdowns and the lighting of the menora. And yet it has

Being Jewish
Holidays

The Missing Heroine of Hanukka

by Judy Petsonk

This Hanukka, for the sake of our daughters, let’s tell the missing piece of the Maccabee story. Let’s celebrate the Queen of the Jews, who

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Cooking à la Jerusalem for Hanukka

by Libby Barnea

Everything about Jerusalem is “complicated”: its political status, its soup-mix population of Arabs and Jews from wide diasporas, even its food. It is that last

Holidays

Rugelach for Shavuot: Baking with Butter, Sour Cream and Cream Cheese

by Libby Barnea

Bored of cheesecake and blintzes for Shavuot? How about luxuriously decadent dairy rugelach?

Holidays

Sophisticated and Delicious Passover Desserts

by Libby Barnea

Kosher desserts present a year-round challenge in their customary need to be non-dairy, if being served after a meal containing meat. Add to the culinary

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