sarah in nyc

My parents had many prized possessions, but among the objects they loved was a set of pewter plates they found in a local antique store. Amazon.com Widgets They are most probably 19th century copies of 18th century plates. The top one reads Shabbes Fish  the lower plate reads  Shabbes Kugel. Those plates hung in our kitchen in Quincy from the time my parents acquired them in the 1970's until after my mother died. Now they hang in our dining room. During Passover we ate one big meat meal after another. I wanted to have a lighter meal this Shabbat. I suggested to my husband that we eat fish tonight. He quipped that we should eat both S habbes Fish and Shabbes Kugel,   just like our plates. I rarely make kugel  but to match the plates, I did. It's a spinach and cheese kugel. It isn't cooked in a round pot like the one on the pewter plate. I know that those round kugel pots were how kugels were made in Eastern Europe but I think that both of my paren...

Rebecca and I have worked together on and off over the years I have taught her how to sew. Amazon.com Widgets Lots of kids in our community are primarily smart in,  for lack of a better term, book learning. Rebecca is a smart kid but she is at the core someone who is smart with her body. She is an athlete and a dancer and understands the world in much more of a physical way than an intellectual way. She had gone to a Jewish day school for elementary school and it left her something of an anti-theist. Rebecca was unsure if she wanted a tallit or not. We met and talked. ultimately she did want a tallit.  Choosing the fabrics for the tallit was easy, selecting the text was harder. Rebecca chose a taupe shantung for the body of the tallit and orange organza for the 'stripe". The text she chose is one I often suggest for the theistic-ally challanged. it comes from the Shabbat morning services if only our mouths were as filled with song as the sea and our tongues filled ...