Our family still eats this meal every Shabbat and even if my mother is hosting, I make the eggplant and butternut squash.
Every roast, every chicken, every stew, every soup starts with onion. It’s engraved in stone for a Sephardic cook.
The holiday of Shavuot marks the receiving of the Ten Commandments by Moses, but it’s also a kind of Jewish Thanksgiving, when farm bounty and grains — “first fruits” — were brought to the temple.
Although today\’s bar mitzvah parties are often as elaborate as yesterday\’s weddings, there\’s a new trend on the horizon — a, noisy, jubilant oneg Shabbat and lunch directly after the ceremony, and a quiet, intimate dinner at home for a few close friends and family at night.
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