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In Europe, new kosher ski options that won’t break the bank

Skiing has always been something of a rich man’s sport. Between the costs of travel, accommodations, lift tickets and lessons, a family with children can easily drop upward of $6,000 for a few days on the slopes. If you keep kosher, the costs can be even higher.

In a remote New Mexican valley, a Jewish skiing legacy at Taos

One of the most wonderful things about skiing is the sense of seclusion, the incomparable quietude and serenity of standing atop a 12,000-foot peak surveying miles and miles of snow-covered emptiness. Somehow the prosaic concerns of the everyday world don’t seem to reach there.

Snow Job

Maybe I\’m crazy, but each winter I plan a family vacation that is fraught with danger. To reach our destination, we must drive up a perilous mountain road studded with hairpin turns. Oddly, during our ascent, this NASCAR-approved artery is usually choked with fog or hail.

Shabbat on Slopes Takes Wrong Turn

To me, skiing is almost a religious experience. When you\’re flying down the back bowls, sun on your face, cool air filling your lungs and a warm feeling filling your heart, it\’s like you can feel the hand of God.

Skiing With a Purpose

As people shoosh down the California mountains, one group will be getting more than just snow: Torah.

Skiing in God’s Country

A California gal for most of my life, I endured jabs and digs about the dearth of culture and the abundance of silicone in our fair city during my two-year stint in New York. (I am neither blessed with blond hair nor an 18-inch Malibu Barbie waistline, nevertheless my East Coast friends had many a laugh at the expense of my geography.)

It was on a weekend ski trip to Vermont that I got to wave my California banner with pride.

Downhill Doubts

My father has disowned me. We did not get into a fight about the family business — there is no family business. I did not marry out of the faith, and I have no children about whose upbringing we can disagree. The source of our irreconcilable differences is that we went skiing together last year, and he is convinced that I cannot be his natural child.

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