Let My Pharaohs Go… It’s About Finding Freedom And Participating At The Seder – By Marc
First off, let me just say that neither Ben nor I noticed that this blog hit the one-year anniversary mark on April 2, 2016. It has been a pleasure melding […]
Category Archives: Holidays
Pesach: Why Does the 4 Questions Have Only 1 Question? – By Ben
Ma nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot? The treasured moment of the Passover Sedar where the youngest child sings a song about asking the 4 Questions. He/she probably doesn’t really care […]
Pesach: The Matzah! – By Ben
It’s that time of year again. Where you’re stuck eating that stale saltine cracker for a week while your non-Jewish friends say, “Matzah? I love that stuff!” Yes, everyone’s favorite […]
Between Purim And Passover… Food And Thoughts For The Soul – By Marc
First off… my humblest apologies for putting this up a day late. Second, next month will mark the one year anniversary of this post… and while I am sure Ben […]
Purim (part 2): A Roadmap to Jewish Halloween — By Ben
Between Marc and my entry last week, this is the 3rd Purim post from SixDegrees. And as well as those posts expressed the spirit of Purim, I wanted to lay […]
Prune Or Poppy… Pondering The Power Of Purim – By Marc
Yes, I like alliteration. But here’s the real thing. Poppy filling can be dry and gritty and just not that tasty. I’m a prune guy… Always have been. And there […]
Jewish Holidays: Purim (part 1) – by Ben
Purim is just a week away. Growing up, all holidays other than Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Chanukah, and Passover, I knew virtually nothing about. I vaguely remember dressing up for […]
The Yom Kippur Blog Post — By Ben
Yom Kippur. The day of atonement. The day where the Jews get all their sins wiped away. All you have to do is two things: suffer fasting for 25 hours […]
Ugh. Not High Holidays services again. — By Ben
The vast majority of Jews in America don’t attend prayer services (aka davening) very often. But there are two days that if anyone has any shred of religious connection will […]
Tishah B’Av, The worst bad day. — By Ben
Shakespearian actors and Jews have few things in common. 1) Both groups feel at home in New York. 2) Both groups pour over their source material, analyzing every letter, as if […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 