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I posted a couple of weeks ago about how much my grocery shopping habits change as Passover approaches. Over the last few days, I’ve noticed a similar phenomenon in my environmental footprint . I’m a cloth diapering, line-drying, walking-not-driving, composting kind of mama. (That doesn’t mean I consistently accomplish all of those things, mind you,…

I dragged the girls to the park to recite the blessing of the sun, and it started snowing. My children shivered under blankets while we sat through an unbearably long recitation of prayers (at least from the perspective of two little girls with frozen fingers.) In retrospect, I wish we had gone to the top…

When the Bon Ami starts to look like spilled flour, it’s time to go to bed. A parting link, in case I don’t get back on before tomorrow night – a great new seder resource put out by JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (really!) with wonderfully creative activities for the seder that are rooted…

From the 2009 OU Passover Guide:   Leave the dishwasher unused for twenty-four hours,  make sure that the dishwasher is clean, and then run  two cycles. If the lining of the dishwasher is plastic,  it is debatable as to whether one may kasher it; ask  your Rabbi for guidance. If it’s kosher enough for the…
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