Shabbat Songs. Oooooooyyyyyyyyyyyy. Shabbat.com - the new Jewish Social Network helping connect Jewish people from around the world. Jews Survived WWII by Living in a Cave. The Stermer family's inspirational story might have stayed a secret if not for the efforts of Chris Nicola, a "veteran caver" who was part of a team that explored Priest's Grotto in 1993, according to the 2004 issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine. The discovery of "two partially intact stone walls and other signs of habitation" within the Grotto piqued his team's interest. Locals told the team about a group of Ukrainian Jews that had lived in the caves, but whether there were any survivors remained a mystery. Nicola devoted the next decade of his life to figuring out the full story, until he finally "located six of the cave survivors, most of them members of the extended Stermer family.
" In an interview with National Geographic Adventure, Nicola explained what made the cave dwellers' story so special. "The chance of a Jewish person surviving at all [in western Ukraine] was less than 5 percent. Latke recipe from The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate. Lovely, Luscious Latkes Of course, no one makes latkes like Momma. The grating, the making, the smells and the mess are what memories are made of: oil splattering, potatoes turning black, shredded skin in the batter, kitchen smoky, Momma frying a new batch of latkes while everyone in the other room eats them as fast as she can make them. Sodden, heavy, crispy, delicious, smothered with sour cream, sometimes smelling of shmaltz. Ah, those were the days! It’s not clear that Momma’s memories are quite as pleasant, but it is always good to have the family around, and so grate and fry she must, and does. Eat, eat, my children. In consideration of those Mommas (and Poppas) who’d like to be out there eating crispy latkes with the rest of the family, the following recipe suggests how this can happen.
Latkes (Makes about 28 potato pancakes, 2-3 inches each) Line a large baking sheet with paper towels. Khazaria.com - History of Jewish Khazars, Khazar Turk, Khazarian Jews. Potato Latkes For Chanukah! Above: My children's Chanukiot (menorahs) on Saturday night, the 2nd night of Chanukah Potato latkes (pancakes) are a classic and delicious Chanukah dish. And since it's now Chanukah I am taking a tiny break from crafting to celebrate the holiday with my family, which involves feeding them! I made latkes tonight, but since I eyeball most of the quantities, my own recipe would be a bit too vague. So thanks to some help from my friends over at gourmetkoshercooking.com here's a few simple recipes with exact measurements: Classic Potato Latkes 10 potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks 1 onion, peeled and cut into chunks 4 eggs ½ teaspoon pepper 1-1/2 teaspoons salt Oil for frying (canola is a good choice) In a food processor, using the grater blade, (or with a hand grater) grate the potatoes and onions.
Note from creativejewishmom: My family prefers Moroccan/Israeli style cooking, so applesauce and latkes is strange to them. Sweet Potato Latkes. How the Jews Invented Checks. How the Jews Invented Checks Kai Feng Jews A Christian merchant in 12th century London once remarked, “As long as Isaac of York trusted his brother Jacob of Marseilles, and both of them trusted their cousin Joseph of Jerusalem, all three stood to make a profit.”
That wasn’t true just in the Middle Ages; it was true in the ancient world as well. Back then, everything was paid in coinage, which was a severe hamper on trade. But Jews early on were successful on the silk and spice routes. They had outposts from the Middle East all the way to China, and all because they invented what we today call “letters of credit” or “checks.” Paper money was first invented by the Chinese in the 11th century, but evidence of the first check came from the geniza of the Great Ezra Synagogue of Cairo, which dates back to the 9th century. Cairo Genizah Fragment from Maimonides' son Now as we all know, trust depends upon honesty. “Oh, no,” I thought to myself. Shakshuka. There are a lot of reasons to make shakshuka, an Israeli Tunisian dish of eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce: It sounds like the name of a comic book hero.
Or some kind of fierce, long-forgotten martial art. Or perhaps something that said comic book hero would yell as they practiced this elaborate martial art, mid-leap with their fist in the air. Or you could make it because when I talked about making eggs in tomato sauce a while back a large handful of comments were along the lines of “oh, this sounds like shakshuka” and “I think you would love shakshuka” and “you really should make shakshuka” and you may have shrugged and forgotten about it until you finally had it at a café one day and whoa it turns out you really would like shakshuka!
Or you could make it because that café had the audacity to close for Passover last week, right when you had the fiercest shakshuka craving yet. I mean, couldn’t they just not serve it with pitas? Serves 4 to 6.
Sukkah City: NYC 2010. S area. The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול. The Jewish Holidays Directory. Jewish Holidays Around the Year Click Here For Your Purim Guide Jewish Holidays are so Jewish! How so, you may ask? If you live outside of Israel you know that the holidays are never on time. They are either early or late. Though Jewish Holidays are celebrated each year, the time of celebration depends on the Lunar based Hebrew Calendar, with each month beginning with the new moon. But since Jewish Holidays are also celebrating the solar seasons, Jewish leap years occur every two or three years. Unlike the Gregorian calendar used by most of the world which arbitrarily sets the length of months to 28, 30 or 31 days, so it corresponds to the 365.5 days of the Solar year, the Jewish calendar coordinates the astronomical characteristics of our cosmological environment, the Months are either 29 or 30 days corresponding with the 29½-day lunar cycle, and the years are either 12 or 13 months, corresponding to the 12.4 month solar cycle.
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Many people do not give much thought to when, what and how they eat until their cardiologist tells them to lower their cholesterol or their friends begin to ask if they are pregnant (for men this question is especially disturbing). A kosher animal must be a ruminant and have split hooves -- cows, sheep, goats and deer are all kosher, whereas camels and pigs (having each only one sign of kashrut) are not kosher.
References: The Jewish Dietary Laws, Isidore Grunfeld, Soncino Press, London. Why Do People Hate The Jews? Why Do People Hate The Jews? It has been said that the history of almost all of the Jewish holidays can be summed up succinctly: "They wanted to kill us; we won. Let's eat. " Why has anti-Semitism been so pervasive in so many countries, in so many time periods and for so many reasons? (One begins to wonder. Perhaps there is something wrong with the Jews and Judaism?
After all, there is an old Yiddish saying -- "If one person calls you a donkey, ignore him; if two people call you a donkey, buy a saddle. ") Between the years 250 CE and 1948 CE - a period of 1,700 years - Jews have experienced more than eighty expulsions from various countries in Europe - an average of nearly one expulsion every twenty-one years. Historians have classified six explanations as to why people hate the Jews: Economic -- "We hate Jews because they possess too much wealth and power.
" As we examine the explanations, we must ask -- Are they the causes for anti-Semitism or excuses for Anti-Semitism? Hitler Quotes. Home - URJ. Yiddish Radio Project. Judaism - The Jewish Website. Yiddish in America. Kosher Blog. A Passover Inquiry. KESHER - From the Union. ICC Home Page - Israel on Campus Coalition. Actions.cfm (application/pdf Object) Actions.cfm (application/pdf Object) KESHER - KESHER Home. EPYC | Home.
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