What is a Dreidel Really?
Dreidels are often used to play a game around Hanukkah to win chocolate coins also known as gelt. It has four sides and each side has a Hebrew letter.
Cheese Latkes and Apple Pear Sauce
Cheese Latkes3 egg substitutes1 cup plant milk1 cup vegan cottage cheese1 cup matzo meal1 Tbsp. sugar3/4 tsp. salt1/2 tsp. ground cinnamonoil for frying (canola is recommended)
The Untouched Oil
To say that life was hard for the residents of the Lower East Side was to do them an injustice. The streets of New York were not paved with gold, as they had…
Potato and Apple Latkes (Pancakes)
Potato and Apple Pancakes We topped these potato-apple latkes (pancakes) with a dollop of sour cream but they're also delicious with unsweetened applesauce.
Vegan Baked Latkes
If anyone had told me there would be so many Latke recipes hitting the internet the first day of Hanukkah - Well let's just say I wouldn't have believed it. I…
Hanukka, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Hanucca, . . .
Every year, for the past 43 years of doing the daily Dry Bones cartoons, I face the same mind-cracking question; how to spell the name of our eight-day…
Potato Pancake
Potato pancakes are shallow-fried pancakes of grated or ground potato, flour and egg, often flavored with grated onion or garlic and seasoning. Potato pancakes…
Hag Sameach. Dry Bones Chanukkah
Dry Bones Chanukkah
Why White on Yom Kippur
People like to wear things that to show how special holidays are to them. The same is true regarding Biblical Holidays. One of the colors traditionally worn by…
Yom Kippur Fast
Yom Kippur Fast
Yom Kippur
G'mar Hatima Tovah
Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana
It was early September 1956, the High Holidays were approaching, and Elihu Schimmel was in the Cold War's coldest theater.
Tisha B'Av
Tisha B’Av means the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av and is traditionally a day of fasting to remember the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem.
Shavuot
Shavuot means weeks and it is one of the feasts of the LORD mentioned in the Torah.
