Category: Blog
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Redemption Through Cake and Challah
I want to tell you that I want to write – but that is a blatant lie. Moving is exhausting, and though we are in our new home, it feels like we have been moving not since December 29th of 2024 – when we had our first phone call with our now community in Melbourne…
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Learning Australia One Shopping Trip at a Time
On the first of September we started our move to Melbourne. We would not move into our permanent home until the first of January. Our home in London was packed up, and we went from a house full of stuff to four under-23-kilo suitcases. On the 9th of October we flew to Israel and spent…
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Three Weeks in Australia
Three weeks in Australia, and we are still counting. Weeks, not months, not years, the way you count time with a newborn. I’m waiting for the moment when the counting stops, when a place shifts from temporary to lived-in. I don’t yet know when that moment arrives, with babies or with stays in one place.…
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Australian Beginnings: A Jew in Shock
What I have learnt about Australia in the two weeks since we got here is this: Australia, like my country of birth, America, is patriotic, but unlike America they are far more quiet about it. This is not a country of big, showy displays. As far as I can tell, they are understated, casual and…
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Becoming a Melburnian, One Confusing Season at a Time
Jump straight to My Fridge Door or Creamy Pantry Vinaigrette I would try to tell you how long it’s been since I have updated my blog, in general I do so every single week. But it’s definitely two if not three weeks since you have heard from me. Not just because we moved halfway around…
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“Are You Just a Mom?” The Answer You’ve Been Looking For
Over the years, I have been asked more times than I care to remember: “are you just a mom?”. And then when Daniel became a rabbi as a second career, I started to be asked a follow up question: “are you just a Rebbetzin?” “I’m not a ‘just’”, I would scream in my head! “But…
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Why My Kitchen Is Holier Than My Synagogue
Or Jump straight to Two New Apple Desserts! I have been thinking a lot about keeping kosher; what it means to me and what it means to others. How it fits into modern life and how it fit in a while back. About its evolution into the systems we have in place today, and how…
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Still Waiting for My Jewel-Filled Fish
Or jump straight to Two new recipes. There is an old Talmudic story of Joseph who loves Shabbat (for the original and full story look up tractate Shabbat 119a). Joseph, in good Talmudic tradition, is a poor Jew. Yet his love for Shabbat means that whatever money he makes during the week he spends in…
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The Night the Gefilte Fish Met the Charif
Jump straight to Two New Recipes. About twenty-five years ago, we were living in Raanana. We had invited our next-door neighbours to Friday night dinner. The couple had children about the same age as ours and had been kind during our first few months in our flat. I was excited to host them. The meal…
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Of Golda and Mrs Bennet
Jump straight to: And more places to eat in Jerusalem or to Two New Rugelach Recipes What’s your favourite musical? Your favourite play? Your favourite book? Your favourite composer? Your favourite city?Fiddler on the Roof, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, Hans Zimmer, and Jerusalem. I actually think that a Jewish version of…