TuBishvat isn’t some kind of trivial pursuit question (remember that 80s game in which players showed off their command of arcane and irrelevant information) TuBishvat is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud’s list of New Years (Any cheder boy will tell you that there are four the best known being Rosh Hashana) and TuBishvat is the day when G-d allocates … Continue reading
I never thought of myself as the type of person who would ever make meringues. I mean why bother. The only ones I’d ever eaten were the store bought kind which taste and feel like styrofoam , okay styrofoam with lots of sugar added. And then there was the patcke element. Patchke is a Yiddish word, unrelated … Continue reading
My mother doesn’t tell too many stories about her childhood. She’s a survivor and it pains her to remember a world that was so tragically destroyed but last week she told me about how her mother, who died in Aushwitz, sent a can of sardines across a hostile border so that her father ( my mother’s grandfather and my … Continue reading
