At one time, there were 40,000 Jews in India. Today there are less than 4000, most having made aliyah to Israel in the 1950s after the establishment of the State of Israel and in the face of uncertainty about their fate in the newly independent state of India. On our recent trip to India, we visited synagogues in three principal areas – Mumbai (west coast of central India), Kolkata (east coast of central India) and Cochin (southern coast). (more…)
B’nai Mitvah families shopped and prepared meals for MESH this week under the guidance of experienced MESHer Sarita Eisenberg. The meal was Sarita’s usual – barbequed chicken, roasted potatoes, and salad. We cooked and did some packing on Monday and then reheated the food and completed the packing on Tuesday.
Cook Sarita Eisenberg and her team whipped up a meal for 50 in just 2 hours!
The team included Sarita’s usual crew of Lou Hammerman and Linda Ariel joined by Sarah Steindel, Risa Bernstein, and Carol Rothman. Also helping were Risa’s son Coby and his partner Sam Benke, visiting from Germany (putative prizewinners for the longest distance traveled to help with MESH).
Pesto for me is seasonal – a summer treat using basil from my garden. It can be frozen to have year-round (although I’ll admit that, when I’ve done this, I’ve usually forgotten that I have frozen pesto and it got too old to use).
I’ve been making pesto since my kids were little, although they initially needed a bit of incitement to eat food that was green. I was teaching an evening class in the city once a week and Lou let the kids stay up until I got home. They would watch me eat, not infrequently begging food from my plate. One night my meal included pesto – the kids gobbled it up and I announced that they were no longer to tell me that they would not eat green food. (more…)
For this last MESH of the year, cook Sarita Eisenberg and her team of Lou Hammerman and Linda Ariel were joined by Risa Bernstein and Carole Rothman. Menu was our usual barbecue chicken legs and roasted potatoes with a side of salad, cookies and fruit cups.
