Carol Goodman Kaufman
By Carol Goodman Kaufman
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Recipes How to Make Stuffed Grape Leaves
These treats offer both sweet and savory tastes, and smooth and crunchy textures. No gooey, gelatinous rice in these beauties. They are guaranteed to garner raves from your guests. For the Jewish history behind the grape, . Makes 36 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, chopped fine 2/3 cup your choice of rice mixture (I…
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Recipes It’s Asparagus Season!
On April 27 I picked the first asparagus of the season. It was tender and it was sweet. Even more important, it was the sign that spring had finally arrived in my town of Worcester, Massachusetts, whose bragging rights include being named more than once the snowiest city in the U.S. There is nothing quite…
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Food Counting on Barley
Thinkstock When we hear the word Passover, we think about matzo, matzo brei, and matzo balls, but before the destruction of the Second Temple Jews associated Passover both with matzo and with barley. Barley was a critical foundation of our ancestors’ diets due to its resilience in the searing desert heat, and since it was…
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Opinion The Silence On Domestic Violence
As part of a follow-up survey I recently completed on the Jewish communal response to domestic violence, I talked to nearly half the rabbis in Massachusetts. Half of them claimed to have been approached by congregants to discuss their experiences with abuse, yet more than three-quarters still have not given a sermon on the subject…
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Opinion Open Our Communal Eyes to Spousal Abuse
It is really most appropriate that the Hebrew month Tishri, and Succoth in particular, coincided last month with the National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. After all, the succah, the hut that Jews inhabit during the autumn harvest festival, represents the fragility of life. The winds blow and the rains fall, leaving its dwellers vulnerable to…
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