by Cindy Warren | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
In this week’s Torah reading, the “stiff necked people” in B’nai Yisrael complain about their lack of nourishment. They cry out for meat and fish and even reminisce about the watermelon they had back in Egypt. Our Torah Treat this week features all those foods: gummy...
by Cindy Warren | May 27, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
For our recipe this week, I found something both fun and educational for the holiday of Shavuot. It is a Libyan custom that’s certainly not cookie cutter but literally uses cookies to illustrate the essence of Shavuot. Libyan Jews create a child’s cookie...
by Cindy Warren | May 27, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Next Tuesday evening we will be celebrating the festival of the Jewish calendar known as Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks. The Torah asks us to count 49 days from Pesach to Shavuot, known as the period of the Omer. During this time we have the practice to refrain from...
by Cindy Warren | May 22, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Next week we will be commemorating the holiday known as Yom Yerushalayim, celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem after the 1967 war. After the UN partition plan and resulting Arab-Israeli war, the old city of Jerusalem remained under Jordanian rule. Many...
by Cindy Warren | May 21, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Wandering through the “dessert” (from challahcrumbs.com) This week’s parsha, Parshat Bamidbar, is the opening to a new book of the Torah called Bamidbar or Numbers. This parsha introduces us to the 12 tribes of Israel and their encampment in the desert. Each tribe had...