Thinking of embarking on a Kosher Sukkot Vacation? Check out last year’s photos from the Grand Hotel Palazzo Della Fonte to see what kind of luxury accommodations you can expect from one of the world’s leading hotels. Enjoy views from the Terraza overlooking the picturesque town of Fiuggi. Enjoy the beautiful countryside while swimming ...
Hello dear readers, As many of my readers may know by now, I love to travel. When I travel, I always find myself making connections. Sometimes those connections are literal, like when I had only 45 minutes to make a connecting flight, and sometimes the connections are fairly obvious, like when I see Colorado Boulevard ...
Hello dear readers, When it comes to the holidays, it often feels like pesach is a holiday of knowing. There is an emphasis on teaching at the seders, and it’s a time to explain and to sing and to relate and to praise and to ask. On the other hand, sukkot feels more like a ...
Hello dear readers, Sukkot is always such a joyous holiday; it’s even right there in one of its alternate names, zman simchatenu, the time of our happiness. But am I the only one that sometimes gets another feeling lurking below the surface? A kind of holiday exhaustion, after two days of Rosh Hashana and Shabbat ...
Hello dear readers, Sukkot is one of my favorite holidays, and one of the reasons why is all the time to spend with family. True, there’s a lot of family time in the previous holidays of Tishrei, but Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur just have a different feel to them, you know? During those holidays ...
Hello dear readers, Every holiday on the Jewish calendar provides a different experience, but in terms of preparations, they’re usually very similar. For davening, there are some things to add or subtract, hallel or a megillah or something. There’s food to prepare, either for before the holiday (like Yom Kippur) or during the holiday (like ...
Hello Dear Readers, Many of you know by now that I am a big homebody. I love my house (or my home, really), and all the things I’ve designed to go in it: my dishes and my comfy chair and my bed that is firm but not too firm (I sound like Goldilocks now, I’ll ...
Hello dear readers, Pesach is fast approaching, which means it’s time to ask yourself: Do you know where you’ll be for seders this year? There are many options you can choose from: you can stay at home or get invited out; you can do something small and intimate or big and bustling; you can stay ...
Hello dear readers, We read in the Torah that when the Jews left Egypt, they were told to ask the neighboring Egyptians for gold, silver and clothing to take with them when they departed for the Red Sea on their way to freedom. Well, if you’re going away for pesach, say, on a kosher Passover ...
