I was schooled last night by my wife who told me that makeup and cosmetics have to be kosher for pesach, whether or not this is the halacha or the social halacha determined by kashrus organizations wishing to scare everyone…
Tag: chometz
My first year making Pesach: My first year not craving any chometz
For the first time in my life I wasn’t craving chometz the entire pesach, this was also the first pesach that I “made”. Usually I go away for pesach and for the last couple of pesach’s I lived in places…
Everybody suddenly loves Quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa sucks and I’m sure most of you would agree, if it didn’t suck you’d have people eating it as is, like they do with rice, but instead quinoa is usually dressed up with all sorts of things to mask…
The Great Minyan Day.
It’s about two weeks before Pesach and Rabbis across the country are emailing their shul members with the chometz sales forms. I’m not going to poke fun at the whole business of “selling” chometz, since we’ve pretty much accepted this…
Stuff people say on Pesach
The never ending meme…
I just had chometz
Now I have the song stuck in my head again, but it never gets old – another parody of I just had sex – this one awesome as well!
Two days without phone or internet or chometz
I was on the internet for about 10 minutes after Yuntiff on Wednesday night, I immediately logged off and about 10 minutes ago I logged on and found a filled up email and facebook waiting for me. Yuntiff was a…
Selling your chometz seems like such a sham
I sold my chometz last year on erev pesach, via an online form from Chabad, I think it’s BS but it sure made me feel like I still had all of my energy bars, trail mix and granola to look…
What non-Jews may think of some Jewish rituals
I wrote this post last night and just this morning I received word that a flight was diverted from New York to Philly because some kid decided to whip out his tefillin, and some folks thought it was a bomb.…