by Webmaster | Nov 27, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
For Jonathan Arogeti this Hanukkah is about a return to tradition—personal and collective. As a child, he never missed a Hanukkah Bazaar at Congregation Or VeShalom, Atlanta’s historic Sephardic Congregation. The Bazar was and still is a highlight not only of the...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Sep 25, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
I have a special treat that I make to fortify me for Yom Kippur. It blends my Laotian Buddhist background with my contemporary Jewish practice. In Buddhism, fast days are set according to the lunar cycle and there are many of them through the year. In order to have...
by Webmaster | Jun 28, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Recipes
The story of the Jews of Hollywood is well known, but what about the Jews of Bollywood? Bollywood produces over 1,000 films a year, more than double those made in Hollywood. And there is a deep Jewish Bollywood story to be told. My journey to understanding Jews and...
by Webmaster | Mar 23, 2017 | Identity, Recipes
I am temporarily living in my Grandma Gertrude (pictured above)’s house. So my kitchen is actually, my grandma’s kitchen. She didn’t really like to cook. She did bake though: rich sticky brownies topped with marshmallows, enormous chocolate chip cookies with nuts and...
by Webmaster | Mar 23, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
The seders of my adult life are quite different than those I experienced in my youth. The main reason for this is that I am married to a Moroccan Israeli who has his own rich traditions from which to draw from. Early in our marriage, my husband experienced his first...
by Webmaster | Feb 23, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Purim is all about the hiding. Esther hid her identity from King Ahashverosh. Haman hid his evil side from the King. And as our tradition teaches, the name of God does not appear in the written account of Purim, because even God is hidden in the Purim story. When is...
