The JCC Kosher Nutrition Program will hold first and second night seders at the Covenant House I dining room, 10 Millstone Campus Drive. The 4:30 p.m. seders will be led by Lesley Levin (April 18) and Jan Goldman (April 19). Food will be prepared by the...
There will be several new additions to this year's 3rd Annual Shabbat St. Louis community-wide worship service, set to take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at United Hebrew Congregation, 13788 Conway Road in Chesterfield. Worshippers can arrive early...
By Dasee Berkowitz, JTA
• Published March 30, 2011
NEW YORK - What woman has changed your life? My toddler intuited his answer when he said to me, "Thank you ima for making me." That's right folks, mothers, hands down, have probably had the single biggest impact on our lives. Giving birth to children...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearing its 80th birthday, perhaps it was time the most printed Passover Haggadah in history had a major facelift. The Maxwell House Passover Haggadah, which has had more than 50 million copies published, hits the shelves -- and supermarkets...
By Dasee Berkowitz, JTA
• Published March 30, 2011
NEW YORK - What woman has changed your life? My toddler intuited his answer when he said to me, "Thank you ima for making me." That's right folks, mothers, hands down, have probably had the single biggest impact on our lives. Giving birth to children...
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA
• Published March 30, 2011
LOS ANGELES - In every generation, the Haggadah tells us, the wise, the simple, the non-askers and even the baddies are obligated to see themselves as though they themselves actually had come out from Egypt. Unfortunately, the closest many of us come...
SCARSDALE, N.Y. - You can find the secret to creating lively Passover seders in a surprising place -- an 1,800-year-old law code called the Mishnah. For starters, the Mishnah did not envision reciting a Haggadah at the seder. Instead, it designed a careful...
By Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman, JTA
• Published March 30, 2011
If a pharaoh fell in the Red Sea but nobody told the story, did it actually happen? No. If no pharaoh fell in the Red Sea, but we told the story for 3,000 years, did it actually happen? Yes. Is it still happening? Yes. To people brought up in the modern...
NEW YORK - With all the restrictions, are decent desserts even possible during Passover? "My particular talent is working around restriction," says Paula Shoyer, author of "The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy" (Brandeis...
By Leah Koenig, MyJewishLearning
• Published March 30, 2011
NEW YORK -- One of the dirty little secrets about the Jewish calendar is that many of the holidays have agricultural subtexts, which over time have been muted or lost completely under the historical and religious themes that were layered on top of them....
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published March 23, 2011
Fashionably frum for Pesach Who says modest clothing has to look frumpy? Certainly not the women's division of St. Louis Kollel, which has organized a fashion extravaganza called "Princess with Pride" for women and teens from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday,...
