When the residents of the Kibbutzim around Gaza came out of their safe rooms, those who were fortunate enough to do so, most after hours...

Almost from the moment I stepped off the plane in Israel, there were reminders of the hostages - a display of the silver dog tags many...

This is the first parsha with a Parsha Inspired Menus post from last year (I was doing the project for longer, but I wasn't blogging...

Today our Israel Volunteer and Solidarity Mission went to visit the Nova Music Festival Memorial. This memorial was first set up in...

There’s something very powerful about counting. We use counting in a whole variety of ways… Counting down to something that we’re excited...

This week some of the ingredients are mixing together from different parts of the parsha, so rather than share the idea and then the...

Much of this week's parsha will sound familiar since this week (and next) cover the heart of the Passover story. While one year at seder...

With the move into Shemot, we move away from the stories of our patriarchs and Joseph and solidly into Moshe and Egypt. For this week's...

I am biased. In fact, pretty much we all are. Some biases we are aware of, but many are unconscious. As I sit here at the very tail end...

You've probably heard it said that "translation is commentary." Exactly how someone translates one language into another often reveals...

This week we get the big finale of the Joseph story - Joseph's dramatic reavel to his brothers, Jacob learning his son is alive and...

Chanukah may be over by the time we light candles on Friday night, but I want to extend the Chanukah feel for one more night with our...

This past Shabbat I was perusing the paper (yeah for the Sunday sections that come on Saturday) and was greeted by a full page image of...

While this parsha is chock-full of memorable stories, not all of them are ones I want to honor with food, so I got creative. The first...

I was recently working with a Coaching client and we were discussing how her plans to relax fell through. She was supposed to go away...

We are in the dramatic, story-rich section of the Torah and this week brings us the beginnings of Yaakov establishing his own family. In...

Here it is, folks. The OG. The Grandaddy of them all. The first and original parsha that inspired me to make a specific food. It was...

Sometimes when I read the parsha something food related jumps out at me. Other times I have to dig a little deeper, think a bit more...

As I cycle on a full year of this project, the question has come up - Will I make the same things for the parsha this year? In most...

In 2001 I had the opportunity to study at The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. It was a wonderful time of learning for me, as it was...