Not long ago, on an unseasonably cold Parisian evening, I found myself sitting at an outdoor caf?, with a large snifter of Calvados. As I
Let the feasts begin. In the next twenty-five days, with ten days of Yom Tov and Shabbat, there will be 18 festive meals (19 if
As summer comes to an end while we still face hot and humid weather, few thirst quenchers are quite as refreshing as a nice, crisp,
While Shavuot may be the shortest of the three pilgrimage festivals, like Pesach and Succoth, it has a large number of venerable customs, such as
In Israel, the day of the garagistes has arrived. Garagistes (or garage-winemakers) are small-scale wine producers who source the best grapes and the best barrels
In the traditional Jewish liturgy, Passover is referred to as the “Festival of Matzoh, the time of our freedom.” And during the Seder, that ceremonial
Purim is unique in the cannon of Jewish holidays in that while wine is a critical component of most holidays, it is only on Purim
In the early days of 1904, British and French diplomats signed a series of treaties known as the Entente Cordiale. The treaties, the result of
