This Passover Season, Stress the Seasonings
Passover starts the evening of April 5; there are signs of it everywhere. Kosher-for-Passover products are prominently displayed in major supermarkets.
This year, traditional dishes...
Jewish Shoppers Struggle With Highest Prices in Recent Memory for Passover Food
A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box...
Passover Desserts
Passover desserts often get a bad rap.
Many of us have unpleasant memories of dry-as-dust, dense cakes, flavorless sponge cakes, stewed fruit compote or jellies...
Chicken Three Ways Courtesy of Aunt Beulah’s Recipe Cards
I have written before about my husband’s Aunt Beulah, who was everyone’s favorite matriarch. I recently uncovered a tranche of her recipes, some handwritten...
Will Elijah Be at Your Seder?
Daniel Matt
Most Jews are not familiar with the biblical Elijah nor with his Talmudic portrayal. They know of him because of childhood memories of...
Author Martin Bodek Has a Shakespearean Twist on Passover
Mike Wagenheim | JNS
Wherefore is this Haggadah diff’rent from all oth’r Haggadahs?
Author Martin Bodek, the writer of the “Emoji Haggadah,” “Festivus Haggadah” and “Coronavirus...
‘Jews Out!’ German Board Game on Exhibit at Tel Aviv University Library
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a new exhibition at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi...
There’s no age limit to hobbies
Stefanie Smith | Special to the JT
If you’ve retired from a full-time job, you may be at a loss for what to do to...
Area congregations join in nightly menorah-lightings for residents
Members of several synagogues in the Baltimore area spent time this past week at Lorien Harmony Hall, an assisted-living facility in Columbia, to light...
A taste of the world at New Year’s weekend gatherings
Family Features
The traditional dishes served year after year at your family’s holiday gatherings may bring comfort and a sense of nostalgia, but you can...
