Category: Aish

It’s Sukkah season! Although for some the weather is still balmy, many of us are eating our meals in our sukkot with our gloves and coats on! We are all looking forward to the hot, delicious, steaming food being brought out to the sukkah that warms our souls and our bodies. Here are some traditional…

I am so excited to share with you some of my favorite recipes from my new cookbook, Shabbos Under Pressure: Cooking with Pressure = Pressure Free Cooking. It’s a fun and beautiful cookbook with awesome, easy-to-follow recipes, great stories from my life, and mouth-watering pictures of each recipe. You can click here to order your…

With Purim around the corner we are all busy getting ready with our preparations for this super fun holiday! I have always loved to bake, and for me, one of the best parts of Purim was preparing the Mishloach manot – gifts of food for friends and family. This year, we’re making mini versions of…

Hash brown potatoes are basically shredded potatoes that can be found in the refrigerated or freezer section of your grocery store. These were so popular last year that a representative from one of the brands that I recommended, Simply Potatoes, called me to thank me because sales in our area had gone up! Now although…

I’m a little behind on my Passover preparations – like most people! To plan my menus I sat down and went through all my Passover cookbooks, searched online for recipes, and started to develop a plan. I also wanted to come up with some new and interesting, and of course delicious recipes that everyone in…

Print Rhubarb Ices A refreshing frozen dessert, perfect for Passover. Servings 10 Calories 294kcal Ingredients 2 pints / 500 grams fresh strawberries cleaned and hulled 2 lbs. / 900 grams – 1 kilo rhubarb cleaned and chopped 2 cups semi-dry good quality white wine 2.5 cups sugar 1.5 Tablespoons fruit flavored liqueur 1/2 cup freshly…

The Passover Seder is one of the most extraordinary educational events of the Jewish year. We tell the story of the Exodus, elaborate upon it, discuss and debate it and sing about it, trying to relive some of the experience through food, drink and actions. What are the major lessons that we should be taking…

In the darkest tunnels of Gaza where hope seemed impossible, a profound Jewish heroism emerged. Not the heroism of physical strength, but the heroism of the Jewish spirit that has sustained our people through millennia of hardship. In a recent interview featured on 60 Minutes that included a tour of a destroyed Israeli kibbutz, freed…

GOOD MORNING!  This past week I was invited to speak at a board meeting of a once prominent synagogue. The previously bustling synagogue had fallen on hard times with a membership drop off of over 90% from its heyday. The board wanted my advice on how they could possibly revive this once proud institution. In…

1. Kadesh (Sanctification) What happens: We begin the seder by reciting the blessing over the first of four cups of wine (or grape juice). Symbolism: Kadesh transforms ordinary wine into a ritual object of sanctity, marking the shift from mundane time to sacred time. Drinking four cups symbolizes the four expressions of redemption promised in…