As we began a new cycle of reading the Torah, I was trying to remember when I first really began this Parsha-Inspired Menus project. I...

Yesterday I saw a post on Facebook and that caught my attention because it put into words something I'm seeing and feeling. I am sharing...

The world of last Shabbat feels like a lifetime ago. I wasn't even sure if I should think about and post about a Parsha-inspired menu...

This weekend we come to the end of the high holiday season. On Shabbat this week we will read the Torah reading for Shemini Atzeret that...

Since this Shabbat is Chag for Sukkot, we have specific Torah readings from outside the normal calendar cycle. Therefore, rather than...

No matter when in the secular year Ha'azinu falls, it is always found in the midst of the fall chagim, after Rosh Hashanah and before...

It’s day-of-Erev Rosh Hashanah. Perhaps like me, you’re going into your final preparations for the holiday. (Or perhaps you got...

This week is a double parsha, but I had a whole menu in mind before I got very far into studying the parsha, so all the references are in...

The summer before 11th grade I read Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I was glad to have read it and recognized quotes, even...

As the boys and I read through the parsha to find our "menu inspirations" we read one section that surprised us. It's just not something...

For all of my friends, colleagues, and clients who will be sharing wisdom over the High Holidays, perhaps some of these stories, quotes,...

Each year around this time I make the menu plans for our Rosh Hashanah celebrations and it's always important to me to include some of...

One of the things I find meaningful and valuable in the Torah text from this week are the commandments that give the Israelites guidance...

For the last month, camp was my home base and at each staff meeting we would start with a page from Big Panda, Tiny Dragon by James...

This summer I had the privilege of learning from Rabbi Gordon Tucker. He comes to teach at Camp Ramah and then even after he left camp he...

For those of us in the Northeast, our summer is winding to an end and I know for my friends who live further south and west kids are back...

This week's Dvarim review of things previously shared with the Israelites covers information about the Temple and what should be...

I almost took the easy road and was going to recycle some menu ideas from previous weeks. I mean, Moshe is reviewing a lot of the same...

Yesterday I took myself to the Botanical Gardens on the campus of Smith College. It was a beautiful day and loved walking among the...

As we read further into the book of Devarim, we continue to hear Moshe's recounting of the history and travels of the Israelites since...