“Awesome” High Holidays
You can scour any Jewish records before the Middle Ages and you won’t find the High Holidays referred to as the “Days of Awe.” In the grand scheme of Jewish history, it’s a recent term, [...]
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A Sweet Seder: The Rosh Hashanah Meal
Apples and honey are a well-known holiday staple at Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) tables all over the world. We indulge in sweet foods, so that the year to come will be just as [...]
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Union: A Roundtable Shabbat with Jordan Blashek, Christopher Haugh & Sarah Hurwitz
Last Friday, on the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 tragedy, OneTable was honored to host and facilitate a virtual Shabbat gathering with community. Union | A Roundtable Shabbat brought together co-authors of Union: A [...]
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Shemini Atzeret | A OneTable Shabbat Guide
In Hebrew, Shemini Atzeret literally means the Eighth (Shemini) day of Assembly (Atzeret) — an eighth day of gathering and celebration that follows Sukkot. Both connected to Sukkot and a distinct holiday of its own, [...]
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From Generation to Generation | A OneTable Shabbat Guide
Whether we live with our family or are celebrating Shabbat with them for the night, may this intergenerational experience be an opportunity to welcome the wisdom of our elders, inspire the energy of our youth, [...]
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Jewtina x OneTable | El Seder de Rosh Hashaná: Edición Latina
While Rosh Hashanah Seders are more typically celebrated in Sephardi and Mizrahi homes, more Jews from around the world are starting to incorporate this practice into their New Year celebrations. This year, we want to [...]
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Celebrating Jewish Creativity Through Shabbat
When I visited Poland, I wasn’t expecting a society which had moved on, in many ways, from the days of Fiddler. I kept expecting the Jews I met there to be like my imagination of [...]
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![Shabbat [Summer] Hygge](https://onetable.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mark-tegethoff-ojU4SmuZzrU-unsplash.jpg "Shabbat [Summer] Hygge")
Shabbat [Summer] Hygge
I spent my semester abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark and while living there, I learned about hygge. As I became quickly obsessed with this Scandinavian principle of hygge, a mood of coziness and warmth (pronounced hoo-gah), [...]
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Dinner Description Glow Up
One of the many things I love about my job is getting to read through the descriptions of the Shabbat dinners that hosts create with OneTable. I feel like I could curl up with a [...]
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OneTable Live | Michael Twitty Talks (and Cooks!) Shabbat with Jake Cohen
Last Thursday, Michael Twitty, acclaimed author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South and forthcoming Kosher Soul, joined us virtually for a conversation and with Jewish Food Influencer & OneTable Board [...]
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