Itās carob time again! Come Tu BāShvat, congregants, Hebrew School students and those who attend Jewish Day Schools prepare themselves perennially to hear all about their āraisinā dāetre. Perhaps itās time to branch out, and leave the almonds, figs, and dates alone and look to the trees for a different source of nourishment. Perhaps its time for the trees to […]
For the last few centuries, if there is one particular food associated with Chanukah, at least for those of us of eastern European descent, it would be the potato. Availability and cost factor aside, I truly believe, that come Chanukah, the potato is not only rich in potassium and vitamin C, but in meaning as well. It must not go […]
An etymologist Iām not. Nevertheless, it seems to me that the term āsit-inā dates back close to six decades. It was at a lunch counter in early 1960 at a Woolworths in Greensboro North Carolina where four African American college students remained seated despite the fact that they were refused service. Unbeknownst to those four college students, the very first […]
