Blintzes are an iconic and beloved Eastern European Jewish food — thinly cooked pancakes (crepes) filled with potato, vegetables or cheese. There is no shortage of ways to make them — sweet, savory, ...

Our family’s approach to Yom Kippur break fast is a Southern one. Many North Americans associate this feast with an array of sweet kugels, bagels with all of the accoutrements, rugelach in every ...

Deuteronomy 22:6–7 establishes the prohibition of shiluach haken: One may not harvest both a mother bird and her offspring simultaneously. Rather, before collecting eggs or chicks, one must send the ...

I make this delicious apple crumb cake throughout the whole Minnesota apple season; it’s one of my favorite autumnal treats. Chock-full of apples, it’s super moist, fruit-forward and really easy to ...

This classic Passover dish of scrambled eggs and matzah can be sweet or savory. All matzah brei recipes are united by two ingredients–eggs and broken-up pieces of matzah–and one matzah-softening ...

Before we had the internet for recipes, my family — all families — had cookbooks. There were shelves full of them, and they were stained with fat splatters of Worcestershire sauce and other remnants ...

The many ethnic and religious subgroups within the Jewish community. For good and for bad, Jews tend to be thought of as a single homogenous group. But the Jewish people have always had internal ...

Rosh Hashanah, literally the “head of the year,” is the Jewish new year. It is a time of introspection and atonement. The central theme and practice not only of Rosh Hashanah, but of the entire fall ...

We say goodbye to the Sabbath in a bittersweet ceremony that employs wine, fragrance, and candlelight. Our rabbis teach that on Shabbat, we are given an extra soul. At Havdalah we relinquish that ...

Step-by-step instructions, materials not included. The shofar can be made of the horn of a ram, antelope, gazelle, goat, or Rocky Mountain goat. These horns are not solid bone, but contain cartilage, ...

This Shabbat prayer is a reminder that the Sabbath is a sign of the enduring covenant between God and the Jewish people. Certain Hebrew words contain many layers of meaning. The word shema, for ...

The story of the garden and humanity’s exile from it is foundational to Jewish tradition. The Garden of Eden is the place where, according to the Hebrew Bible, Adam and Eve, the first human beings, ...