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Persian Almond Cardamom Pistachio Cake

Passover desserts can be seriously lousy. Luckly, flourless cakes seem to be the rage right now. That makes the great search for delicious Passover desserts much easier. My own search began in earnest when I had a child born in early April. Every few years her birthday is during Passover and she still wants the…

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Posted in Passover
Published on April 4th, 2018

Passover Seders Around the San Francisco Bay Area

The J-Weekly has an exhaustive list of Seders in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are still without a Seder dash over and look through their list. The most common practice for Jewish families is to spend the first night of Seder at a home gathering with family and friends. Some synagogues won’t even…

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Posted in Passover
Published on March 28th, 2018

Where and with whom will you have Seder?

Here it comes, the most celebrated Jewish holiday of all, Passover! Where and with whom will you have Seder? A few years ago a Jewish woman participating in a Passover cooking workshop said, “I have a question. We have lived in the bay area for a few years but no one invites us for Seder….

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Basic Judaism – always a good idea

I advocate that every interfaith couple take a class on Judaism together. To the Jewish partner I say, You need to hear what’s being taught. You won’t know it all and you probably haven’t thought about many of these subjects as an adult.  I particularly love the Introduction to the Jewish Experience class because it has…

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