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Tips on baking a Shavuot cheesecake (and recipes, too)
By Eileen Goltz ~ What better time to try out a new dairy recipe or two than Shavuot and of course, when I use dairy and Shavuot in one sentence,… Read more
Shavuot: The Festival of Weeks
Shavuot – the Festival of Weeks — is the second of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Passover and Sukkot). Agriculturally, it… Read more
Yiddish Book Center to present “Yidstock”, July 11-15
AMHERST, Mass. – This July the Yiddish Book Center will bring the top names in klezmer to the stage for “Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music.” The lineup includes Socalled,… Read more
Torah Portion: Bamidbar
By Shlomo Riskin ~ Our Hebrew calendar places us at the end of the count of the Omer which connects Passover and Shavuot, after the modern holidays of Israel Independence… Read more
Kolot: Summer Morning, a poem by Bonnie Enes
By Bonnie Enes ~ Summer Morning Slow rise to this humid morning from the alabaster-white sheeted bed, slip into a tangerine robe, follow the tortoise-shell cat meows to the… Read more
Passover in Ethiopia
Hadar Markus, who grew up in West Hartford and now lives in Israel, spent Passover in Ethiopia with two friends from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, where she is… Read more
Film: “Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story”
By Maxine Dovere / JointMedia News Service ~ NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu was the 30-year-old commander of the elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commando unit Sayeret Matkal,… Read more
Torah Portion: Behar-Bechukotai
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb ~ It is an old word, and it describes a behavior that has been around since the very beginning of history. Yet the word seems… Read more
Kolot: West Hartford students write of hope
Seventh graders in the Hai class of the Beth El Temple Religious School in West Hartford conducted a Holocaust commemoration for the school on Sunday morning, April 29 that included… Read more
Torah Portion: Emor
By Shlomo Riskin ~ “On the fifteenth day of this month there shall be the festival of matzot for the Lord; for seven days shall you eat matzot.” (Leviticus 23:… Read more
