Book Review: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
I missed the book signing, but Deb Perlman’s Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is filled with recipes that will delight your taste buds and earn you a place at every dinner with your in-laws.
August 12, 2022
August 12, 2022
Our Lunch With Rabbi Gershom Sizomu
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu leads a group of 1,500 people who somehow managed to create a thriving Jewish community in the landlocked country of Uganda.
August 12, 2022
Two Jews on Parenting: Ready? Oh, K.
One of these 5 year olds is starting kindergarten. The other is finishing. And as usual, their parents have a lot to say about it.
August 12, 2022
Reuniting With History: One Family’s Auschwitz Journey
Seventy-one years ago today my great-grandfather was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. This month, my family published his memoir.
August 12, 2022
There is No Good Way of Explaining Hate to Your Children
A reflection on Anti-Semitism and Hate in general, from Minneapolis to Boston.
August 12, 2022
Ian’s Happy Ending
” There was this crazy thing where grown-ups were behaving badly, but MORE of the grown-ups were doing the right thing, and he will remember that.”
August 12, 2022
August 12, 2022
Are You My Mother-in-Marrow? Two Years After My Transplant
Two years ago today Amy Ariel got a bone marrow transplant that saved her life. She doesn’t know anything about the donor except that he’s in another country, around 34 years old, and probably has a mother.
August 12, 2022
Shabbat Blocked In Mexico
The Wandering Jew is in Mexico, where he tried to celebrate Shabbat, but got denied.
August 12, 2022
Picnic Food
Baba ganoush, Israeli couscous, pita, hummus, Shoko — I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.