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Avocado Egg Salad Recipe

This salad is so tasty and filled with healthy protein to keep you going! YUM. Ingredients: 2 avocados 4 Israeli cucumbers 2 hard boiled eggs Olive oil Parsley Directions: Dice the cucumber. Cut the avocados into chunks (do not mash). Chop the hard boiled eggs (make sure they are cool). Drizzle with olive oil. Add…

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Dreidel Game for Kids

Perhaps the best-known Jewish toy, the dreidel–a spinning top traditionally made of wood–has a place in the homes of Jewish children around the world. Most often played for chocolate coins called “gelt,” or M&Ms for those whose sweet tooth overrules concern for historical accuracy, the dreidel reminds Jews of the Hanukkah story’s miracle of the oil.

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The Worst Mother in the World

Allow me to introduce myself: I’m The Worst Mother in the World. Now, before you start arguing that I am certainly not the worst mother in the world, that surely, other women with uncontrollable tempers and penchants for certain class A narcotics are much more likely to hold that title than I, let me explain that I am not really talking about the World, as in, the seven seas and seven continents, but that I am talking about my world, as in, of the four people living in my house, I am the mother, and therefore the only one capable of being the worst at it.

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My Family’s First Road Trip

When I was a teenager, our family used to make the eighteen hour drive from Pennsylvania to Florida ever year for winter break. Wed pile our suitcases in the trunk, wed load up with books and snacks, and my brother and I would cram into the backseat of my dads car, arm rest down in the middle like our own, personal, Berlin wall.