I am fresh from my holiday challah baking class at Breads bakery with Chef uri Scheft and reading recipes. In North America, it is not even Labor Day Weekend, and national newspapers are printing...
Tag - Rosh Hashana
Macklemore Summons the Jews to the VMA with a Shofar?
The video above, a promo for MTV’s Video Music Awards, clearly shows Macklemore using a Shofar to summon people. Is this a nod to the upcoming Jewish High Holidays? A subtle homage to Sumner...
Forgiveness, Repentance and Confessions
We Can Help You Out! The 10 days in between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are known as Asseret Yemei TShuva – the 10 days of repentance. These are observed in a number of ways but generally it is...
Holiday recipes as Sweet as the Traffic Around the U.N.
It is the Wednesday before Rosh HaShanah, and newspapers around the world, from the Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Toronto’s High Park, from the U.N. General Assembly to LA’s Pico...
Arrrhhh… Shiver Me Shofar
As I sat in a synagogue on Rosh HaShanah, I was disappointed that there would be no Avinu Malkenu and no Shofar. But in there was a lesson. Sometimes you don’t get what you expect, not on the...
Extreme Hazanut: Hineni by Jeremiah Lockwood of Sway Machinery
We all know that Matthue Roth has a way with words and he’s a straight shooter, so when he says “Sometimes, you just gotta let your heart cry out. In honor of Rosh Hashanah, and in honor...
Happy New Year of the Jews!
Get down tonight! What? You expected an apple with some honey maybe? Come on man! Be creative! It’s the 70s! ×©× ×” טובה ומתוקה