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Why making products with Yiddish moves me so deeply
I have never been interested in making pretty products that sit on the sideboard. Each product I make has a story and comes from my Kishkes - gut. I love making products with YiddishIn our family, a typical Jewish family, lots of languages flew around the kitchen table. I spoke to my mother in Hungarian to my father in Yiddish, my parents spoke German together, my mother spoke Ladino to her mother and when my parents didn't want us to understand them, my mother spoke in Serbian and was answered
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5th May 2016
Seder Checklist
As Pesach and the Seder approaches, I thought it could be useful to have a checklist handy to ensure that you don't forget what to place on the table.
As SEDER means order, I thought a little assistance on this front might be helpful.Is there something we have left out?AT THE SEDER TABLESeder plate with:
Sliced
Cucumber / celery / potato (Karpas)
Lettuce
(Chazeret)
Horseradish
(Marror)
Charoset
Roasted
chicken wing (Zero'ah)
Hard
boiled egg (Beitzah)
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10th Apr 2016
10 Topical tips for the Big Passover Clean Up
Are you multi-tasking so much that you’re just not getting anything done? Who and what is draining your time and energy? Click here to view full clock collection Best to start with a plan and think of the salami approach - one slice at a time, thus avoiding an "all or nothing" approach. A glass of wine may also put you in the mood!1. Create a plan. Walk through each room and and decide what areas need to be cleaned out. Plan what you want to accomplish each week, and then di
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3rd Apr 2016
Spring Cleaning of Soul and Home
The concept of spring cleaning came from the Jews. It is a wonderfully renewing and revitalizing process. So as the blooms are starting to burst, and the earth literally rises once more to its prime, we mere mortals have a need to cleanse our souls and cupboards of the all the dust that has accumulated over the year. I am grateful for the gift of Pesach or Passover, that gives me the deadline and formal and religious sanction to get the house in order in every sense. And I am far from a clean or
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27th Mar 2016
Purim - a freedom to be ridiculous
Many far more learned than I can speak of the inner messages of the Megillah of Esther. I think of the festival and the joy it spreads for all ages. I am so pleased we have such joyful festival that gives us permission to be ridiculous and look ridiculous, to dress up and to play out our fantasies. Humour and the ability to laugh at ourselves and not ourselves too seriously gives so much important perspective.I think of some other major religions and their lack of humour and emphasis on keeping
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24th Mar 2016