Before I begin, I must tell you that I am happy that this is the last holiday for a while. I am really over preparing all the holiday food. As I explained in my first entry about Shavuot, traditionally we serve dairy dishes because the Torah which we received on this day is white, pure, […]
King Solomon described the receiving of the Torah as “honey and milk guarded under your tongue”. Shavuot is not only the celebration of the receiving of the Torah from Mount Sinai and the ending of the morning-period that began after Passover, but it is also when the wheat was harvested in Israel. Farmers brought their […]
Sorry I didn’t get back to you right away, but I have been working hard at work. I tried to get a decent bonfire picture for you, but the bonfire down the street was a bit pitiful. It looked more like a campfire than a bonfire. Actually, I am not so upset about this because […]
I hope that all of you have a joyous Passover full of peace and love. I am going to be very busy the next couple of days preparing for the seder and will be back with more stories and photos to share with you this coming week. Here are a couple of teaser photos for […]
Pesach or Passover is in a little over three weeks! April 2nd is the evening of Pesach and it is time to prepare the house and think about what I am going to bring to my cousin’s house in Jerusalem. I always bring my grandmother’s world famous matza balls, David’s world famous haroset (secret recipe […]
Baroness because my direct ancestor, Baron Jacob Bassevi von Treuenberg, was an ennobled Jew from Verona, Italy and Prague, Czech Republic. Tapuzina (a variety of Israeli orange and a softdrink) because I used to live in a town in central Israel that still has orange groves in the middle of town. I now live in […]