4 Tips for Beating Jet Lag

When the Jewish people were led out of Egypt on Pesach, they wandered for forty years in the desert before reaching their final destination. There were a lot of drawbacks of traveling that way – it took a long time, they were traveling on foot, and they encountered dangers such as plagues, droughts, and enemy ...

Prepping Your Phone for Your Passover Travels

I’m always trying to declutter my phone. That’s deleting photos (or printing them out), reading emails (so I don’t see a number of unread emails in the thousands), and removing apps that I’m not using anymore (mostly it’s just games that I try but don’t get into). I’m not always successful, but I do try ...

A Guide to the Campania Coastline

Imagine spending your Passover vacation exploring hilltop towns rich with history, resting on white sandy beaches, and basking in the warm Mediterranean sun. A trip to the Campania region of Italy for Passover in 2020 offers you all of this and so much more. The Campania region is divided into five provinces, each with its ...

4 Ways to Spice Up Your Matzah

I want you to think back to your first bite of matzah. If you can’t do that, then at least try to think back to your first bite of matzah of a certain Pesach, or even last Pesach. How did it taste? Pretty boring, right? Remember, the first bite of matzah is at the seder. ...

Passover in the Desert

The letter S is a pretty unassuming letter, as far as letters go. In Scrabble, it is worth only one point, and when placed at the end of the word, the letter S usually changes a noun from singular to plural. But as I was looking at the Dessert section in one of my Passover ...

On Pesach and Sandwiches

Hello dear readers, A popular story about the invention of the sandwich involves an English nobleman titled the Earl of Sandwich, after whom the sandwich is obviously named. In the story, the Earl asked for his meat to be brought between two pieces of bread, such that he could eat with one hand and continue ...

Packing for a Pesach Vacation

Hello dear readers, So, you’ve decided to go away this Pesach! I would say that’s a wise choice. Don’t get me wrong, I love being at home as much as the next person, but Pesach can be super stressful, so I’m all for going away for Pesach. I guess it’s like spring break, except instead ...