Shabbat dinner of Chanukah – time to step up our game.
A favorite in my family: gefilte latkes! Start with your favorite latke recipe (box or homemade) and add your favorite homemade or defrosted gefilte fish loaf. Fry!
Delicious with apple sauce or horseradish!
To receive…
Last night, my colleague Sara went with her husband, Tim, and their four-year-old daughter, Olivia, to the Chanukah dinner and art show at the Early Childhood Education Center at the Schenectady Jewish Community Center where Olivia is a student.
Olivia made a beautiful chanukiah at sc…
Wednesday morning, my day started with a request for a Federation position on the New York Times article on President Trump’s Executive Order. As my day progressed, it didn’t get much better.
Our mission is to build a strong and united Jewish community, and issuing statements tends…
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have been running rampant on college campuses around the country. While not incident-free, our local schools, fortunately, have been much more tolerant. And so, when an event occurs, we take notice.
On Tuesday morning, a UAlbany student shared her politica…
My daughter Bina is on a gap-year program in Israel, housed about 30 miles north of the Gaza Strip. Tuesday morning, we received the following text from her, “We had a couple of sirens and will be moving up north.”
My daughter Jenny lives in Jerusalem and teaches in a school about 4…
