These little Chanukah touches add a lot! This table accent is the perfect, easy element to add to your table (just make sure you have enough dips to serve). Click here to see the full tablesetting featuring this idea! You’ll need: Of course, you can change the color to match your table. If using the…
Holidays
A Chanukah Tablesetting: It’s Chic and Super Easy to Duplicate
We’ve given you everything you need to set a special-for-Chanukah table right here. When Between Carpools asked me to create a table setting for them for Chanukah, there was one big requirement: “It has to be easy to do!” Well, this is certainly something anyone can do! And it’s something that works with any white…
How to Play Menorah Trivia
This is a fun game that the grownups, teens, and kids will all love to play and watch. The great thing about being behind the scenes at Between Carpools is that we get to hear all the new ideas and try them out right away, long before they make it into a post. So, when…
The 2022 Chanukah Gift Guide for Men & Women
It’s not easy to choose a gift for him or her! Find inspiration here in our latest roundup. For More Gift Ideas, see these posts: 2021 Chanukah Gift Guide11 Gifts Any Host Would Appreciate2020 Chanukah Gift Guide for Men & Women2019 Chanukah Gift Guide for Men & Women Cashmere Travel WrapCozy like a sweatshirt, yet…
The 2022 Chanukah Gift Guide for Kids & Teens
The cutest, the latest, and the most fun gifts for your kids and teens. The Jewish Kids Journal -$14.99 Our new version of the Jewish Kids Journal is now in full color! Kids will love answering questions and learning about themselves. Whether your child uses it as a personal journal or it becomes a fun,…
“A Perfect Shabbos Table”–It’s Not What You Expect
Do your dreams get crushed every Friday night when the Shabbos table fails to be the place of your dreams? This post was a conversation between the five of us on the topic of: the Shabbos table. Tables Have Stages “I remember, when my children were a bit younger, after a day of shopping and…
Shabbos & Money
Food has become more extravagant than ever–at the same time, it’s also more expensive than ever and budgets are stretched. So, there’s the question: is there such a thing as too much to spend on Shabbos? There’s a story in At Any Hour, the biography of Rav Shlomo Gissinger (p. 267): The Steinbergs* had just…
Tips & Tricks to Help You Make an Early Shabbos
This is a roundup of different tips and tools we shared with you over the years that can help you be ready for Shabbos early. It’s not about how early you wake up. It’s about how prepared you are from the beginning of the week.
What Do You Do Special for Shabbos?
Aside from preparing special meals (whether they’re traditional or not so much), there are different things that we all do that create an atmosphere of oneg Shabbos. And everyone does different things to increase our families enjoyment and anticipation. We compiled some comments from ourselves, our friends, and family. Also: A lot of Shabbos-related treats…
How to Apologize
It’s not always so easy to say “I’m Sorry,” (especially if you were right!) It’s that time of year, when we work toward cleaning our slate both bein adam l’Makom and bein adam l’chaveiro. And while hurts and grudges shouldn’t necessarily be left to fester until just before Yom Kippur, if you haven’t made up…
