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Traif: Williamsburg Restaurant devoted to pork and shelfish

Traif is a new restaurant that says it is going to celebrate pork and shellfish and I find it really funny, some of you may find it sad that a Jewish guy is opening up a restaurant devoted to his favorite foods which happen to be the farthest from kosher you can possibly get, but I just find it hilarious ...

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Holocaust Memorial Day: Remembering the Unspeakable.

Today I won’t be posting any craft projects, because I’ve got something much more important on my mind, and weighing heavily upon my heart. Today is Holocaust Memorial day in Israel, and around the world.In Israel a siren is sounded and the entire country pauses for one minute and stands in memory of the 6 million who were tragically taken ...

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Re-Hametz-ification

I still haven’t broken Passover. And I’m kind of cool with that.(Okay, I sort of promised myself as I sat down to write that this wasn’t going to turn into a my-Passover-was-cooler-than-yours post. I’ll try to keep it that way. But it still might.)A few years ago, when I was living in Israel, I went out to lunch with a ...

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Happy Bird Day Cake Decor: Birds From Styrofoam Balls!

Here’s the cake I promised to share with you yesterday! Isn’t it just amazing what one can do with some styrofoam ballsand a few pipe cleaners one (well, me anyway) has sitting around? I must say, I even surprised myself, especially sincewhen I started making these birds for the party I really had no idea that I’d end up using ...

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Two days without phone or internet or chometz

I was on the internet for about 10 minutes after Yuntiff on Wednesday night, Iimmediately logged off and about 10 minutes ago I logged on and found a filled up emailand facebook waiting for me. Yuntiff was a good break, but there is nothing quite like acomplete break from internet and phone usage on days when you are allowed to ...

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“Life Is Not One Big Afikomen Gift”

That’s the takeaway line from Marjorie Ingalls’ thoughtful column “Kids These Days,” and it pretty much sums up how I feel about Passover.Ingalls writes about dichotomous wish have the seder be accessible and “fun” for the kids while at the same time teaching the complex meaning of the meal. (You, with the plague finger puppets, you know what I’m talking ...

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What Not To Do At The Shabbat Table

The Broodo family of Dallas, Texas is now a well-established Orthodox family. They’re leaders and role models in their community. However one event during their first Shabbat experience almost derailed their teshuva journey. If it was not for the quick thinking of their hosts, their lives might have been very different today.Read More: @ beyondbt.comReaders found more information by searching for:shabbos ...

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How To Write A Proper Petition

Find attorneys who know the case, inside and out. Consult with frum attorneys, who know how words are taken by the people expected to read the petition, and what impressions about the Orthodox community will remain years later. Speak to a cross-section of community leaders.Read More: @ Cross-CurrentsReaders found more information by searching for:how to write a petition (1)how to write for ...

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Honorifics and Honor

This year, the yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Zahava Braunstein, the 25th day of Adar, fell out in the thick of the recent brouhaha over an Orthodox rabbi’s conferring of a rabbinical title on a woman.For anyone who knew Rebbetzin Braunstein, or even of her, the coincidence carries a lesson.Read more: @ Cross-CurrentsReaders found more information by searching for:jewish honorifics (8)honorifics (1)jewish honrifics (1)zahava braunstein (1)You might ...

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My first days of pesach were awesome

My nose was filled with sweet cologne as two men sat in back of me, I could smell them as soon as the door to sanctuary swung open, before they proceeded to sit down and insult my nose with their overdone cologne and rapid fire whispered Hebrew I could tell they were Israeli, I wondered if whispering was possible for ...

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Matzah: It’s What’s For Dinner. And Lunch. And Breakfast.

So about now you’re probably entertaining thoughts of gooey crust pizza and Wonder Bread sandwiches, am I right? Eight days is a loooong-ass time to not eat bread or any other poofy pastry, but I figure it’s not nearly as hardcore as running away from Egypt and wandering around a desert wasteland for 40 years. A little suffering for the palette ...

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More Passover Memories

The other day I blogged about celebrating Passover on my great aunt’s dairy farm outside of Baltimore. I sent the link to my aunt and uncle (on the other side of the family). They read the latest books on their Kindle and have digitized all their old LPs, but it didn’t occur to my 80-year-old aunt to write an online ...

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