38 days ago by Gedalya's Ima

They might be seemingly unrelated but were next to each other in my picture folder, so I will come up with a connection! Savta came to G's show and it made him so happy! We also recently enjoyed seeing Neta Shalom at our Chanuka party! (was that good enough?)

40 days ago by Gedalya's Ima

This amazing dance is Gedalya's current favorite song. It's called "Mi She'maamin Lo Lefached". Achinoam learned the dance too. I'll post that one later. Enjoy! This was the girls dance at Gedalya's party.

41 days ago by Lavender Took

Happy New Year and thank goodness 2011 is gone! I have so much I need to report here and hope to get to some of it soon. This is just the first week since things went topsy turvy in October that I feel Ai kan haz owt of hamzter bal nou!!! I spent the morning of the last day of the year reading some ...

44 days ago by pragmaticattic

The above is actually a picture of Hungarian Yeast Rugelach, from a much earlier post. I don’t have a picture of the crescent shaped rugelach my grandmother A”H favored. I went with roll shaped rugelach this time. If you want to see how the crescent shaped rugelach is made, you can take a look at [. ...

44 days ago by pragmaticattic

I don’t know why, but I usually feel the urge to make rugelach this time of year. Not pareve yeast rugelach, but dairy rugelach, with real butter and cream cheese. It always seems like a fabulous idea . . . until I am halfway through rolling out, filling and shaping the dough. Then I remember [...]

45 days ago by Dina

. This is how chanukiot looked last night, after all 8 + 1 candles were kindled. And early this morning, this is what I saw in a street in Jerusalem! A sure sign that today is Zot Chanuka, the 8th (last) day of the holiday. The man was pouring boiling water from his electric kettle to melt the wax. ...

45 days ago by Dina

. And while we are on the subject of soofganiot/jelly donuts, take a look at the (approximate) statistics on how many of them soldiers ate this week of Chanuka! And that is only at their bases, not at home. And while you are at the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's blog, you can cast your vote fo ...

46 days ago by Dina

. As far as I can figure, [x] in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the sound of a voiceless velar fricative. Good enough for X-Day at ABC Wednesday, no? . So happy [x]anuka! hehe Today is the 8th and last day of Chanuka. In Tel Aviv, on one of the fancy streets, this shop was full of many varie ...

46 days ago by Helena Stone

Tonight isn’t just December 27th, but it’s also the last night of Hanukkah – AKA, the 8th night. But before those last candles burn out, it’s not too late to play dreidel. And if you’re a jewish geek like me, you’re really going to want to check out the Hanukkah Droidel which is inspired by everyone ...

46 days ago by Avishai Magence

A few years ago Assaf Wole, an Israeli columnist, wrote acute piece about two children – one Ultra-Orthodox and one secular –questioning their fathers about the essence of Chanuka. With his great knackfor sarcasm he portrayed the secular father trying to avoid discussion of the religiousmotivation b ...