B'tayavon: Tabbouleh

*Tabbouleh is one of the most popular salads in the Middle East. It is often served family-style in a little bowl along with many other appetizer-type dishes (humus, falafel, baba ghanoush). My strategy for eating Mediterranean mezze is to just pile my pita with everything that looks tasty. The only hard to find ingredient in…

Music video for Shavuot

Just in time for the Festival of Weeks, a Shavuot holiday music video (produced by “Rebbetzin TAP & Friends”) reminds Jews around the world that Tuesday night is the time to “stay up all night!” Jews have a custom of remaining awake throughout the night in order to study the Torah. The custom is kept…

ABCs of Shavuot

BY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS, AISH It is ironic that Shavuot is such a little-known holiday. Because in fact, Shavuot commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history ― the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot is the culmination of the seven-week-long “counting of the Omer” that occurs following Passover. The very name…

Tabbouleh

*Tabbouleh is one of the most popular salads in the Middle East.  It is often served family-style in a little bowl along with many other appetizer-type dishes (humus, falafel, baba ghanoush).  My strategy for eating Mediterranean mezze is to just pile my pita with everything that looks tasty.  The only hard to find ingredient in this…

Shavuot Music Video

Just in time for the Festival of Weeks, a Shavuot holiday music video (produced by “Rebbetzin TAP & Friends”) reminds Jews around the world that Tuesday night is the time to “stay up all night!” Jews have a custom of remaining awake throughout the night in order to study the Torah. The custom is kept…

Lawyers, not IDF, at forefront of battle against flotilla

BY RON FRIEDMAN, JPOST— In an effort to prevent the upcoming flotilla into Gaza, the Shurat HaDin Law Center has threatened lawsuits against companies offering services to the participating ships. In letters to maritime insurance firms and satellite communications companies, Shurat HaDin, an independent non-profit organization, has warned that any companies that provide services that…

Remembering Six Days in 1967

BY MICHAEL OREN, FOREIGN POLICY— “We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants,” declared Palestine Liberation Organization leader Ahmad al-Shuqayri. “As for the survivors — if there are any — the boats are ready to deport them.” A half-million Arab soldiers and more than 5,000 tanks converged on Israel from every direction, including the West Bank,…