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There are about twelve knaydelach simmering on the stove as we speak. I'm making them early 'cause the boilermaker isn't feeling so hot at teh moment. And we all know that chicken & matzo ball soup is the Jewish penicillin ;) I'll probably wind up making the charoset tonight as well. Speaking of which, I went to five different places with ( Read more... )

Being a Modified Jew (by Liz Polay-Wettengel)

Guess what I am plotting...

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Say Hey (The More I See The Less I Know)In other news, this weekend has been much less productive than I would have liked, but it has been one hell of a good time ( Read more... )

Every once and a while I am overwhelmed by the saga, the history, the collective memory of my People. Maybe it's because the High Holidays  and, subsequently, the autumn season are approaching. It is, after all, one of the most spiritual times of the entire year for us. If the Temple was still around, we would be preparing sacrifices and offerings ( Read more... )

...tonight is the first night of Shavu'ot! I highly doubt that I'd make it through the all-night Torah study session that is the first night, but I can definitely read the Book of Ruth and swing a couple of really nice dairy-based meals :P

This was ganked from demonfafa's website Angry Young & Jewish. It was just too freakin' good to pass up!!


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The Jewish people believe that every 28 years the sun returns to the same position, at the same time of the week, that it occupied at the time of its creation. That is, at the beginning of the 4th day of Creation. (I am not sure how this works on account of the fact that I am 99.999& sure that the sun doesn't actually move, but I digress.) A ( Read more... )

bissel - a little bit
bubbe - grandmother; a term of endearment
bubkes - nothing
chutzpah - nerve, arrogance, or presumption
glitch - a minor problem or error
goy - gentile or non-Jew
goyisher kup - a stupid person; literally, 'a gentile head'
klutz - a dense, clumsy, or awkward person; literally, 'a block of wood'
kosher - something that is acceptable to ( Read more... )