Holidays
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The New Must-Make Hamantasch This Purim: Challah-Taschen
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Make sweet or savory challah-taschen for your Purim Seudah. With surprise fillings inside, they’ll be a huge hit! Here’s how to do it. About 4 years ago, not long after I began my challah business, I came up with this idea as a fun twist on the traditional hamantashen. Since challah is kind of my…
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Want to Give Real Food for Your Mishloach Manos? Here’s Our Solution.
These are the real food mishloach manos your recipients are guaranteed to open and enjoy pronto. We all crave real food on Purim, but for some reason, food (as opposed to sweets) is so much harder to package. We needed a solution (and assumed you’d like one too) that still looks neat and classy (and…
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Didn’t Choose a Purim Costume Yet? Be Inspired by These!
From the super creative to the super cute… you’ll be amazed by the thought and details in each costume. Every year, along with a couple of other photographers in other cities, my studio holds a fundraiser by taking Purim portraits in exchange for a donation. Each family comes in their Purim costume and gets a…
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Your Shabbos Menu Organizer is Here!
Stay organized and plan each week effortlessly with this Shabbos menu organizer template and download. We know. Your Shabbat menu is scribbled on the back of an invitation. There’s not much room there for planning when you’ll do what or what you need to add to your shopping list. Now, with this menu organizer, you…
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These are the Fritlach for When You Literally Have Five Minutes. Literally
Could fritlach get easier? Not easier than this. Try this 5-minute version. Fritlach are thin, fried strips of dough and while they’re certainly easier to make than doughnuts, we wanted an even easier version. Perhaps our grandmothers wouldn’t be happy with our nontraditional method, but gone are the days of painstakingly rolling out dough as…
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These Are the Only Vegetable Latkes You Will Actually Love
![These Are the Only Vegetable Latkes You Will Actually Love. [deck:] Do the healthier substitutes for potato latkes just not do it for you? If you’re going to change it up a bit, this is these vegetable latkes are the only way.](https://betweencarpools.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/0Y9A6775e-small.jpg)
Do the healthier substitutes for potato latkes just not do it for you? If you’re going to change it up a bit, these vegetable latkes are the only way. I’m a purist, and really I don’t think anyone should mess with latkes by making different versions and variations. I prefer my latkes the plain, old-fashioned…
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Family Time! Play Driedel Yahtzee This Chanukah. Download and Print Our Custom Scorecard.
Want to spend some family time playing a game? Keep it in the Chanukah spirit with Dreidel Yahtzee. I love Yahtzee. If you read this post, you’ll know it’s one of the top classic games I like to play with my kids. Unfortunately, though, since the game involves keeping score using a pen and scorecards,…
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Women and Real Empowerment: 3 Things to Learn from Yehudis
What does it mean to be a truly empowered woman? Let’s learn from Yehudis Empowerment is a buzzword today. It’s the term people use when they want to do as they please, when they please, how they please—but it may not necessarily be pleasant. The emphasis placed on “women’s empowerment” in championing for equal rights…
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Get Out the Crayons and Download Our Chanukah Coloring Page (Free!)
Because Between Carpools always has just the thing or idea to help you keep the kids busy, entertained, and having fun. And, of course, for every season, there’s a coloring page. Let the kids use their creativity and imagination while coloring and decorating this Chanukah coloring sheet. Download, print, and have fun! More Chanukah Coloring…
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The Fun Menorah Project That’ll Occupy Kids of All Ages
Be amazed. This might look simple but children aged 1 ½ – 8 will be equally entertained while building this menorah project (while keeping the adults free to schmooze.) Every year, my family gets together for a Chanukah party and somehow I end up with the job called “figure out how to entertain 30 kids…
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