Haute Kosher
“I am a proud convert”: My conversion to Judaism
I am a proud convert. My interest in Judaism began with my family background, and I cannot explain my conversion without first explaining that.
My mother’s side of the family,...
A retrospective on Pesach 2022: Leah
"Perhaps the question of how we can connect to traditions authentically, without doing things we don't believe in for the sake of it or giving up on truly living our Jewishness, is a universal diasporic and/or secular conundrum."
A retrospective on Pesach 2022: Naomi
"I definitely felt a greater level of spiritual connection to the holiday of Passover than I ever have before."
Jewish reading recommendations
It is these expressions of Jewish life before the war - beset with jokes, neuroses, and anguish - which stay alive long after reading the texts. I would highly recommend.
Haute Kosher: The lady doth kvetch too much (or does she?)
kvetch
Etymology: Yiddish kvetshen to talk about something at great length and (often) in an...
Haute Kosher: meditations on chicken soup
During the pandemic, some of us have come to measure out our lives in Friday night dinners and matzah balls...surrounded by the people that we love, chicken soup sits at the heart of the little sanctuary in the week that Friday night dinner represents.
