Provençal Jews have shabbes cassoulet ( Read more... )

In Greece, Romaniotes hold the sword fish is kosher as it has scales in the first months of its life, while Sefardim disagree (from Greek cookbook ( Read more... )

Italian Rosh Hashana seder

Italian recipes

Courtesy of my husband's cousin!

Yekke menu (except we REALLY don't hold by inventing simanim or brachos!)

The Maharil mentions eating the head of a sheep. I'm trying to remember where I saw this, but the Maharam MeRothenburg dipped his fish in honey as well.

In Alsace people used to eat cinnamon cakes and plum ( Read more... )

Baba is grandfather in (Judeo) Arabic, Baba is grandmother in Russian, Bube/Bobe is grandmother in Yiddish ( Read more... )

• 20:58:10: "Mama you don't have a collar!! let's sing, I'm a tznius princess!" Mati
• 20:58:27: I miss total wipeout!!!!
• 21:00:45: how do I make cityville inhabitants happier?
• 21:01:00: How do you write Mecha?
• 21:01:20: "You should do the Paris fashion week guest post on my blog! You got style girl!!!"

• 13:47:42: Shana gave birth to 6 babies, 3 dead, one very sickly :(
• 16:11:46: Shana has a blocked baby inside, argh! IYH it will go out
• 16:29:11: Mati, about a song: "Is it Yiddish? Is it Ladino? Is it Judeo Italian? No, then I don't want"
• 18:07:02: Mati : "I'm a big gal now, I can get up (at night) to bottlefeed the rat baby".
• 22:40:27: shana had ten ( Read more... )

• 20:23:55: My dad is so depressed my mom is in Israel lol cute
• 21:09:28: Mati wanting her door to open: "Open! Open!" (in English!)
• 23:33:09: Ramchal had no beard because italian kabbalists ruled a beard only had a significance in eretz: fascinating!
• 23:36:26: An acquaintance born in the 20's, discussing when she lost her virginity on facebook! wash ( Read more... )

These are cousins of my husband, and distant cousins of mine.
Rabbi Giacomo (Yaakov) Tedesco, Italian Yekke (German Jew), was born in 1799. This is his daughter Adelaide (typical Italian name) with a wig (and her husband). They spoke Yiddish and Italian.


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• 10:51 Mati cleans for Pessach and "kosherize" her tea party! #
• 10:52 Mati tells the story of Pessach to the cleaning lady! #
• 11:59 "everything must be kasher le pessach, are you sure this is kasher le pessach?", Mati #
• 14:08 cleaning lady who knows about kosher, separated dishes and pessach and will come to help for pessach on her free day, what a ( Read more... )

On Friday I was so dead I didn't light the candles, husband did before going to shul while I was in bed.

He went to Yeshurun, a shul we had wanted to check for a long time as it is Yekke. Big disappointment, almost all people "like us", especially women, were older or tourists. The young crowd doesn't at all have an European gefil, most are dati ( Read more... )