For Rosh Hashana this year, I am sharing three chicken dishes that you can prepare for your family holiday meal. Every family has their own recipe for roast chicken, but if you\’re looking for something new and different to serve on Rosh Hashana, try one of these.
My son Zack, 17, is celebrating Shabbat dinner tonight at the Bohema Restaurant in Krakow, Poland.
In fact, not only is he celebrating Shabbat, but he and his group — 15 students from Milken Community High School in Los Angeles and 140 students from Tichon Chadash High School in Tel Aviv, plus teachers and parent chaperones (including my husband, Larry) — are practically doubling Krakow\’s Jewish population, estimated at 200. It is a population that, at its height in the late 1930s, numbered more than 60,000.
\”Fish is meat,\” announces Danny, my 9-year-old vegetarian son.
\”Fish is fish,\” responds Larry, my 50-something pescetarian husband.
Judaism backs up Larry, classifying fish as pareve, neither dairy nor meat, and telling us that fish first appeared almost 6,000 years ago, on the fifth day of creation, when God commanded, \”Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures\” (Genesis 1:20). God later elaborated, \”anything in water, whether in the seas or in the streams, that has fins and scales — these you may eat\” (Leviticus 11:9).
When an important local rabbi invited me to his house for Shabbat dinner to discuss my column — which he doesn\’t like — I was appalled. How patronizing, I thought, to summon me to his home so that he can tell me, with home-court advantage, to change what I do.
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