Together with Kosher River Cruises Executive Chef, Tobias Fritz, we have, for the past 11 years, tried to bring you the best of traditional recipes onboard plus “Modern Jewish Cuisine”. Next year we will be introducing new ideas for the eclectic range of cruises for...
Questions about how the Israelites looked often start in the Torah. These questions come up in parts that talk about ritual purity and skin conditions. In Leviticus 13:31, the focus is on diagnosing skin diseases. Here, hair color also plays a key role. The text...
From Islay to Oban: Scotland on a Plate If the earlier part of our journey explored whisky, this chapter turns to something even more fundamental: food. The food of the Scottish islands is not complicated. It was shaped by what the land and sea could provide—fish from...
Jewish history is filled with moments when scholarship became more than intellectual study. In times of persecution, books often became tools of survival. Rabbi Yosef Albo was a key figure in this struggle. He was a medieval thinker. His writings boosted Jewish belief...
Anne Frank is remembered by many as the girl whose diary showed the human side of the Holocaust. Her words, written while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, became one of the most read books in the world. Beneath the well-known story is a richer history. It shows...
The Torah portion called Shemini is well-known for introducing several kashrut laws. This includes the ban on eating pork. These dietary laws are often seen as religious rules. However, archaeology shows they might help us identify ancient populations in Israel....
