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Sweet Potato Kugel

SWEET POTATO KUGEL(From No Cholesterol Passover Recipes, by Debra Wasserman)Serves 12. Ingredients:• 6 small sweet potatoes, peeled and grated• 3 apples, peeled and grated• 1 cup raisins• 1 cup matzo…

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Where Does the Passover Story Begin?

Every year at our Passover seder we ask four new questions.

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Israel's Independence Day

Out of the tears of the Shoah God birthed the modern nation of Israel. On May 14, 1948 David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel an independent nation. Israel's Independence Day, Yom Ha-Atzmaut, is…

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Refugee "seder" tells modern day Passover stories

It was in Levinsky Park in South Tel Aviv eating matzah and charoset (traditional Passover food) with a group of non-Jewish men from Eritrea that I finally understood the meaning of Pesach (Passover).

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New Year of the Trees

Happy Tu BeShvat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees. Tu BeShevat 2021 begins in the evening of Wednesday, January 27 and ends at sundown on Thursday, January 28.

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Vegan Challah with Raisins

Ingredients:2 packages dry yeast2 cups warm water (105°F-115°F)1/2 cup sugar, divided3 tablespoons flaxseed3/4 cup water

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Water Immersion (Tevilah Mikveh)

Water immersion (tevilah mikveh) ... repentance--and therefore forgiveness--is a predominant theme during Rosh Hashanah. ... Elul, the month preceding Tishri, is the beginning of a special 40-day…

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Dip Our Apple...

Jewish tradition requires us to dip our apple in honey on Rosh Hashana!

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Sukkot the Forgotten Holy Day

Many non-Jews are familiar with Passover, Chanukah, and the High Holy Day days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. But few non-Jews know about, and many Jews have forgotten, an equally important Holy…

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Porkless Passover Toast

Introducing our exclusive brand new Shalom Adventure cartoon series Porkless created by the Zaremsky family.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center…

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Sitting Pretty. Dry Bones

Dry Bones Sukkot

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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 had been looking forward to posting this…

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The Fifth Plague: Plague on Livestock

Ex 9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous…

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