Idea for Parshat Shelach

Idea for Parshat Shelach

by | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey

This week’s parsha tells the famous story of the spies. Moses sends twelve spies to the land of Israel. Forty days later they return, carrying a huge cluster of grapes, a pomegranate and a fig, to report on a lush and bountiful land. But then they continue with words...

Parshat Be’halot’cha

by | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey

LAZY DAYS AT THE BEACH by Benyamin Cohen Torah from Dixie Staff Writer Summertime is here. Every year, we read the Book of Numbers during the summer, and often it gets less attention then it rightfully deserves. So for the moment, let’s catch up with the Jewish...
Treat for Parshat Beha-alotcha

Treat for Parshat Beha-alotcha

by | 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...
Recipe for Shavuot

Recipe for Shavuot

by | 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...
Parshat Bamidbar – Everyone Counts

Parshat Bamidbar – Everyone Counts

by | 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...