Category: September 2022

By: Sharon Lurie Rosh Hashanah, a time to renew, revitalise, and in my case revamp traditional recipes using the simanim (symbolic foods). Humus and honey in challah?? Who would have thought? And, as for Appletiser cake? We are blessed with rich culinary traditions and with a surge in the kosher product market. We are seeing wonderful new foods each year making it easier to fuse old-world recipes with modern twists to bring something familiar and a little different to the table HUMUS AND HONEY CHALLAH 3 cups warm water 2…

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A day in the life of Adam and Eve By: Chandrea Serebro Many a love song has been written about the power of one moment or just one day. Lives changed, worlds created, destinies dashed. The archetypal creation story, with its elements of love, lost and found, betrayal, disappointment, and doom – Adam and Eve, the birth parents of humankind – has all the ingredients needed for a smash hit. And for Adam and Eve, this one day is none other than Rosh Hashanah, the birthday of the world. Rosh…

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It’s not only about the teiglach By: Rabbi Moishe Schnerb It is the most frenetic of months! Firstly, just to come to terms with the reality that I’m going to have over 50 people at my Yom Tov table on the first night of Rosh Hashanah! What pressure! I better get my meat order in on time, or else… Should I really invite Auntie Gimpel? Last year she made such a scene with Uncle Fester! And how am I going to do the seating? Don’t forget those Teiglach. They must…

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How to win friends and be nice to people By: Paula Levin Starting the New Year on a blank slate is such a lovely thought – all our past misdeeds erased by the atonement of Yom Kippur. But did you know there’s a teeny, tiny disclaimer in the fineprint? Hashem is willing to let bygones be bygones – at least, where He is concerned – but He doesn’t speak for our fellow man. Those we have wronged, those who have wronged us – we have to do the hard work…

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To cry or to cry twice? That is the question By: Rabbi Dovid Samuels It’s quiet in shul. Eerily quiet. We have just recited Psalm 47 seven times. Each time it got louder and more meaningful, more emotional. “Our G-d has ascended with a blast – Hashem, with the sound of the shofar.” Then the ba’al toke’a raises his voice. The man with the responsibility to blow the shofar for the whole congregation calls out: “From the constraints I called to G-d, He answered me with G-dly relief.” The first…

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