I spent a sleepless night surfing the internet for creative and beautiful ways to prepare eggs. While nothing tops these beautiful huevos haminados prepared by Ima on the Bima, I didn’t have it in me to track down piles of onion skins. instead, I started exploring a Chinese tradition, tea-soaked eggs. Most of the recipes…

I was scrolling through last year’s Passover posts and found this. We’re not going to my mom’s this year, but the issues we confront are the same every year. More about this year’s solution, and how we maintain a loving, respectful marriage despite our radically different feelings about Passover after the seders are over. Until…

I write a lot about contemporary Jewish children’s books. It’s a topic I care a lot about as a parent, a teacher and an author. I think the quality of these books has, overall, increased enormously since I was a child. There was some real, shall we say, dreck when I was a kid. There…

My kids didn’t watch Sesame Street when they were little. But last year, they received the entire run of the Muppet Show on dvd. So, it’s not surprising that their favorite parts of Shalom Sesame‘s It’s Passover, Grover feature those lovable, furry creatures. In this episode of the brand new series of Shalom Sesame, the…

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