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What is a Dreidel Really?

Dreidels are often used to play a game around Hanukkah to win chocolate coins also known as gelt. It has four sides and each side has a Hebrew letter.

Cheese Latkes and Apple Pear Sauce

Cheese Latkes3 egg substitutes1 cup plant milk1 cup vegan cottage cheese1 cup matzo meal1 Tbsp. sugar3/4 tsp. salt1/2 tsp. ground cinnamonoil for frying (canola is recommended)

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The Untouched Oil

To say that life was hard for the residents of the Lower East Side was to do them an injustice. The streets of New York were not paved with gold, as they had…

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Potato and Apple Latkes (Pancakes)

Potato and Apple Pancakes We topped these potato-apple latkes (pancakes) with a dollop of sour cream but they're also delicious with unsweetened applesauce.

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Vegan Baked Latkes

If anyone had told me there would be so many Latke recipes hitting the internet the first day of Hanukkah - Well let's just say I wouldn't have believed it. I…

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Hanukka, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Hanucca, . . .

Every year, for the past 43 years of doing the daily Dry Bones cartoons, I face the same mind-cracking question; how to spell the name of our eight-day…

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Potato Pancake

Potato pancakes are shallow-fried pancakes of grated or ground potato, flour and egg, often flavored with grated onion or garlic and seasoning. Potato pancakes…

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Hag Sameach. Dry Bones Chanukkah

Dry Bones Chanukkah

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Why White on Yom Kippur

People like to wear things that to show how special holidays are to them. The same is true regarding Biblical Holidays. One of the colors traditionally worn by…

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Yom Kippur Fast

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Yom Kippur

G'mar Hatima Tovah

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Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana

It was early September 1956, the High Holidays were approaching, and Elihu Schimmel was in the Cold War's coldest theater.

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Tisha B'Av

Tisha B’Av means the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av and is traditionally a day of fasting to remember the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem.

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Shavuot

Shavuot means weeks and it is one of the feasts of the LORD mentioned in the Torah.

Giving Thanks for the Miracle of Survival

(CNN) - ...almost 70 years after his village in Poland was liberated by the Soviet army, Leon Gersten is meeting the man who is the Oskar Schindler of his own life: Czeslaw Polziec. ... Polziec is…

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Building, Decorating and Dwelling in a Sukkah

Sukkot is a time of great rejoicing. There are at least three commands given by God in relationship to the Feast: the children of Israel are to 1) dwell in sukkot (booths), 2) gather the Four…

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Honey Cake

Honey CakeHoney Cake is a traditional food for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, to bring a "sweet" new year. I wanted to make a vegan honey cake this year, but given that honey isn't technically…

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The Symbolic Foods at a Passover Seder Part 2

Almost every Passover seder (ritual dinner) includes various ritual foods and other items. Nothing on the seder table is selected randomly; each item has its purpose and often its specific place on…

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A Meditation in Time

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Colossians 4:5

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Sounding the Shofar

For those of you who have attended, a Rosh HaShanah service (or watched one here on the Shalom Adventure magazine), a prominent practice you will observe is the blowing of a shofar, or ram's horn.…

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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, the Day of atonement, is the most sacred of the Jewish holidays. It is regarded as the "Sabbath of Sabbaths."

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Simchat Torah

Have you ever been to a simcha? A simcha is a celebration. So if you have ever been to a wedding, birthday party, bar mitzvah, or any other celebration, you've been to a simcha. There is a Jewish…

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Happy Purim!

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Israeli Jets Foil Attack

Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes in Syria

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The Fifth Plague: Plague on Livestock

Ex 9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous…

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Future Fulfillment

As with each of the other Fall Holy Days, with Sukkot we look forward with eager anticipation to the future fulfillment of this Feast. While exiled on the island of Patmos, the aged apostle Yochanan…

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Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Hamantaschen

Introduction A delicious gluten-free version of this Purim treat sweetened only with whole, natural fruits. This was a huge batch, you might want to halve it!

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