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The breathtaking Seven Heaven Challah brings a diversity of Jewish experiences and palates to your festive Shavuot table. A lesser-known Sephardi custom, it mixes together the celebration of the wheat harvest of Shavuot, Chag Hakatzir, (the Harvest Festival) with the customary milk-based foods associated with the revelation of Torah at Mount Sinai. Also called Los…
If you read and discuss enough biblical commentary and ask why ancient figures didn’t do things along what we today think of as “Jewish” lines, you often get the response of ‘Well, they didn’t have the Torah yet. They didn’t know.’ It’s always been a point of comfort for me as someone who was raised…
If you’re from New York, the name Ratner’s gives you dewy-eyed nostalgia for the great dairy restaurant of yore. But I’m from LA, and Ratner’s just makes me think of my dentist, Dr. Farkas, whose office is on Ratner St. There’s a connection– Alex Ratner came west in 1914 to beat back tuberculosis, and he…
Cheesecake is a Shavuot favorite in many Jewish homes. Whether you like the traditional kind or prefer a vegan alternative, the Forverts’s Rukhl and Eve have you covered in this episode of “Est Gezunterheyt” (“Eat in Good Health”), in Yiddish with English subtitles.
I realized I was not truly “American” when I made the mistake of ordering cheese blintzes in a (good) New York kosher restaurant. I quickly discovered that Americans think cheese blintzes are a dessert, intended to be loaded with sugar. For someone with a Russian set of taste buds, this was pure sacrilege. Growing up…
Shavuot is fast creeping up on us. It’s the holiday of decadent dairy indulgence, the time when one too many plates of cheesecake can wreak havoc on an unsuspecting Jewish stomach. It’s the celebration of the giving of the Torah, when the Jews became the chosen people, and when the chosen people chosen to declare…
Shavuot begins at sunset on May 19th this year, and, as always, it will mark a celebration full of dairy-rich delicacies. While each bite of blintz or cheesecake is sure to be tasty, it’s also important to remember that overindulging in dairy products — or choosing the wrong type of dairy — can cause a…
Serves: 6 Preparation Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 1 hour APPROXIMATE THC PER SERVING Approximate dose per serving is based on infusing 5 grams of cured/dried/decarbed cannabis into 10.6 tablespoons (or 1 1/3 sticks) of butter. 10%: 7.7mg 15%: 11.6mg 20%: 15.4mg 1 package frozen ricotta cheese crepes or blintzes 1 stick grass-fed butter, melted…
Virtual
Dec 7, 2022
7 pm ET ·
A conversation with Julia Haart and her son Shlomo, stars of Netflix's 'My Unorthodox Life,' about the new season and much more.
