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...
by Webmaster | Jan 3, 2017 | Identity, Recipes
On December 1st, baker Brandie Itman moved her small home business into the kitchen of Beth El Synagogue adding a kosher option to the Minnesota landscape. Team Be’chol Lashon caught up with the busy mother of two to talk about cake, keeping kosher, and being an...
by Webmaster | Sep 7, 2016 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
The summer is over, the school year has started, and so it follows that Rosh Hashanah can’t be too far away. The holidays are a month away which gives us all enough time to plan and try out a few new recipes to add to our Rosh Hashanah table. Here are five of our...
by Webmaster | Jun 9, 2016 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
The Shavuot holiday is upon us. We celebrate our becoming a people committed to living the gift of receiving and living Torah. Shavuot also marks the spring harvest season. Growing up, I recall marking the holiday with ‘first fruits’ of the season. We now share the...
by Webmaster | Jun 6, 2016 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Shavuot is one of the rare Jewish holidays that really specifies a dairy meal. Some say it’s because the Torah came with the promise of a land of “chalav u’d’vash,” a land of milk and honey. Some say its because this is the time of the year when cows, goats and...
