A Culinary Celebration of Diversity!
In the early days of modern Israel—from the late 1800s to the late 1940s— almond flour. Those from Northern Africa make charoset truffle balls from most of the immigrants were Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. They came with their own culture, traditions, and adherence to...
Revival in Green
Writing about the Holy Land after his 1867 visit, Mark Twain described it as “rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary…with hardly a tree or shrub anywhere… a rocky, barren, hopeless and heartbroken land.” The first wave of pioneers from Europe in the late...
From Mountaintop to Mountaintop
Dean Chariker was born and raised in a typical Daati Leumi (Modern Orthodox) family in Israel. They kept the laws of Kashrut, they strictly kept Shabbat, they went to synagogue and prayed three times a day. Wearing a kippah and tallit katan was a given for the men....
A Persian Purim
The story of Purim dates back to the 4th century BCE during the Babylonian exile of the Jews from Israel. Most people are familiar with the dramatic tale of Queen Esther and how she and her Uncle Mordechai rescued the Jews from imminent destruction under King...
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