Tips For Celebrating Shavuot This Year

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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, Any tips for celebrating Shavuot this year? Signed, Screaming […]

Fondue for Shavuot

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Classic Cheese Fondue & Chocolate Fondue Shavuot (shah-vu-ote), which begins Sunday evening, June 1, is the second of our three pilgrimage holidays – Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. It comes seven […]

The Omer: What Are We Counting? And Why?

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Why do we count the Omer? Ask 3 people and you might well get 3 answers. We are counting the days between Pesach and Shavuot, the time we left the […]

How To Manage The Stress Of Passover Kashrut?

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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, My partner and I are hosting my in-laws for […]

How To Politely Turn Down Purim Gifts

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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, My synagogue is a place where people tend to […]

Purim – It’s Not What it Seems

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Like Tu b’Shvat, which I wrote about last month, Purim also suffers from the image of being a pediatric holiday. Purim is fun. We give and get gifts of food, […]

The Perfect Latke

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This column is going to be controversial. Sorry. Not sorry.  In my opinion, you are probably making latkes wrong.  It’s not your fault. This time of year, EVERYBODY is telling […]

Why Does My Jewish Child Want An Advent Calendar?

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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam,  My daughter has asked for an advent calendar this […]