"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A wonderful apple cake recipe for Passover from our dear friend Libby Sklamberg, ala-ha-sholem.
Ingredients
2 large eggs
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup peanut or safflower oil (use olive or walnut oil if you consider peanut or safflower oil kitniot)
1 tsp kosher for pesach vanilla
2 cups matzo cake flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp... Read more here
Two great friends of ours, Emily Sokolov and Sybil Goldstein, came up with the exact same treasure quite independently from one another.
Matzo Crunch sure isn't slimming, but it tastes divine......
Ingredients
5 pieces of unsalted matzo
3 sticks of unsalted butter or margarine
1 cup of firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 tsp of kosher for pesach vanilla... Read more here
A Passover treat for those sick of trying to make sandwiches out of matzo.....
This recipe came from our dear friend Libby Sklamberg, ala-ha-sholem.
Ingredients
2/3 cup water
1/3 cup peanut oil (use olive or walnut oil if you consider peanut oil kitniot)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
1 cup matzo meal
3 extra large eggs
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit. Grease a 6-muffin tin and set ... Read more here
Passover Recipes - what's the big deal?
If you're anything like Mrs. Wex and the yearly search in the kosher-for-passover aisle of your local supermarket for anything even vaguely edible makes you want to lie down and beat your tiny fists against the floor, trust me - you are not alone. Over the next fourteen weeks before Pesach we will be sharing some great kosher-for-passover recipes that will help... Read more here
Proving once again the value of a single-city tour, Uptown Magazine in Winnipeg has voted The Frumkiss Family Business one of its top novels of the year.
At the beginning of December Quentin Mills-Fenn wrote a great review of Frumkiss and has followed up today by including the book as one of his favourite novels of 2010.
You can read the article in its entirety here - below is an extract that specifically... Read more here
Wex has done several book tours with the Jewish Book Council and all this week he will be blogging for them.
Find out how The Frumkiss Family Business was born and what it's really like to be a Jewish writer and Yiddish expert.
You can read the first entry entitled Birth of a Family Business here.
Make sure to check in to the Jewish Book Council's website every day this week for another installment.
Happy... Read more here
Mike Regenstreif presents a considered and very favourable review of The Frumkiss Family Business in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.
Imagine suddenly finding out that a defining aspect of your identity was not what you thought it was all your life – that you weren’t really who or what you thought you were. That’s what happens to members of the Frumkiss clan in Michael Wex’s very funny comic novel about... Read more here
