These fillings go with Nanny’s hamentashen, the dough I use each year for making Purim pastry. Prune or apricot filling 1 lb dried fruit water 2-4 tablespoons of honey grated ginger, lemon rind Put fruit in a medium saucepan and fill with water almost to cover. Add honey and ginger for apricots, grated lemon rind […]
This is my grandmother’s recipe and my mother taught me how to make them. Sometimes my uncle would come assist. Now my daughter and a friend’s daughter help me. These are plain, simple and simply the best hamentashen ever, because they evoke childhood, family and Jewish life in the best possible way. They may […]
Ah, youth! For only youth, in all its headstrong, contradictory and stubborn ways could see the need to partner against its own interests. The driving desire to be seen as open-minded, fair and even-handed, though, is what must drive the Open Hillel movement, those students who feel that International Hillel’s partnership guidelines are too restrictive. […]
