Category: Aish

Imagine a day where all your bad financial decisions disappear: you get your land back, your debt is forgiven, and even if you sold yourself into indentured servitude out of desperation, you walk away free. Sounds amazing, right? This isn’t just fantasy—it’s the Torah’s economic reset button. In the beginning of this week’s Torah portion,…

A rebbe has been compared to a geologist, one who points out where to dig beneath the earth to find diamonds and precious stones. He’ll tell you where to dig and what you’re likely to find, but you must do the digging yourself to find the treasure within yourself. “I don’t have your treasure,” he’d…

Print Honey, Fig and Shallot Chicken Honey, shallots, and melted garlic, need I say more Servings 4 Calories 312kcal Ingredients 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 1 teaspoon cornstarch ¼ cup honey 1 chicken cut in 1/8’s 1 teaspoon kosher salt divided ¾ teaspoon black pepper divided 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 large shallots sliced 6…

Print Mississippi Mud Cake Rich chocolate and gooey marshmallows make this popular with kids and adults alike. Servings 10 Calories 658kcal Ingredients 2 cups all purpose flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 pound unsalted margarine 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1 cup water 1/2 cup pareve milk 1 tablespoon white…

  Print Super Simple Healthy Zucchini Soup This yummy soup has a nice green color and wonderful flavor. I make it all year round. Calories 1365kcal Ingredients 1 onion chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cloves fresh garlic chopped 6 zucchinis chopped in chunks 1 large potato peeled and chopped 6 cups chicken stock 1…

One of the Netherlands’ tourist attractions is a village hidden deep in the woods, between Vierhouten and Nunspeet. Built in 1943 by members of the Dutch resistance, the village provided shelter to more than a hundred people, most of them Jews. A reconstructed hut in the hidden village in Vierhouten. G.Lanting, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>,…

On our first date, my husband, Jeff, told me he was taking classes at an Orthodox synagogue, discovering meaningful traditional Jewish teachings. In fact, he was thinking of becoming Orthodox himself. I wondered if there was something wrong with attractive man I met. I had grown up with a wealth of positive Jewish experiences through…

There’s a quiet moment in every relationship—maybe after a snide comment, a forgotten errand, or a long, disconnected evening—where you pause and wonder: Should I say something right now, or should I let this one go? Is this a moment to express a need or a hurt, or should I just let it slide? It’s…

When Turku Avci, a Turkish student at Hebrew University, began sharing her positive experiences in Israel, she became a pariah in her home country. Targeted by radical Islamists, she can no longer return to Turkey or visit her family. Shattering Myths Raised in a secular Muslim family in Marmaris, Turku had never met a Jew…