February 6, 2012 archive

Tu B’shevat reminder and ideas

Tu B’shevat is coming! Tu B’shvat is the new year for the trees, and it’s Tuesday night and Wednesday (2012). It’s not a holiday that has prescribed observances, although eating fruit and making the “‘ha’aitz” bracha are common, and some people do “shehechianu” on a new fruit. It basically celebrates the awakening of the earliest …

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Pharaoh Chicken part 1: How do you make a mummy chicken? (And why?)

Yep, we’re making a mummy chicken. For real. We’ve been studying some basic facts about ancient Egyptians, including their writing system, which was among the first in the world, and their burial practices. Without getting to much into why, we compared how we prepare bodies for burial with how they did, and read some articles …

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