Exhibit Two Gets Aished! (Exhibit Two at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem earlier this month) A bit of explanation is in order. Aish = Aish HaTorah. [1] Aish HaTorah is an apolitical network of Jewish educational centers in 35 branches on five continents. [2] Aish is all about Jewish education and kiruv… drawing Jews closer to [...]
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Exhibit Two Gets Aished!
Posted in Children, Community, Culture, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Parenting, People, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, tagged Children, Community, Culture, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, parenting, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One Year Anniversary!
Posted in Blog, Blogging, Community, Cooking, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Inspiration, Japan - Japanese, Jews/Judaism, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Opinion, Personal, Samurai, Style, Thoughts, tagged Blog, blogging, Community, cooking, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Opinion, Samurai, Style, Thoughts on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One year ago, yesterday, May 17, 2011, I created this blog, the Kosher Samurai. One year ago, today, I published my first blog article, set out below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I prefer to spell it bl*g or bl*gging. I have some strange aversion to the way the word is usually spelled. Not sure why. I just do. [...]
Exhibit Two Flies Back to Israel!
Posted in Children, Community, Culture, Family, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, My Life, Parenting, People, Personal Observations, Relationships, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, Travel, tagged Children, Family, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, My Life, People, Relationships, Religion, Thoughts, Travel on April 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow morning, May 1, 2012, my son, Exhibit Two [1], flies off back to Israel. He is taking part in the Jerusalem Fellowships program for three weeks, studying at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem as well as traveling to various other places as part of the program. His sister, my daughter Exhibit One, did the program last [...]
Returning April 16th!
Posted in Cooking, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Inspiration, Israel, Japan - Japanese, Jews/Judaism, Kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, People, Recipes, Research, Science, Space, Style, Thoughts, Vampyres, Zombies, Zoology, tagged cooking, Culture, Fashion, Food, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Life, Modern Culture, Opinion, Research, Style, Thoughts, Vampires, Vampyres, zombies on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Kosher Samurai continues to be away for Passover. Look for this award-anticipating blog to return this coming Monday April 16th!
R’ Michael Skobac’s Healthy Challah for Dummies!
Posted in Cooking, Culture, Faith, Food, Friends, Health, Inspiration, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, My Life, People, Recipes, Reviews, Style, Thoughts, Toronto, tagged cooking, Culture, Faith, Food, Friends, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Recipes, Style, Thoughts, Toronto on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of spending Shabbes with my rebbe and mentor, R’ Michael Skobac [1] and his charming wife, Chashi. R’ Skobac is Master Po to my Grasshopper. (R’ Skobac and I SO don’t look like this!) Shabbes dinner featured a spelt/camut challah that was out of this world! He was kind [...]
Quick & Easy Purim Hamantashen
Posted in Community, Cooking, Culture, Faith, Food, Fun, History, Holidays, Inspiration, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, People, Recipes, Religion, Spirituality, Style, tagged Children, Community, cooking, Culture, Faith, Food, Fun, History, Holidays, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Kids, kosher, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, People, Recipes, Religion, Spirituality, Style on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This Wednesday night, March 7, marks the beginning of the Jewish festival of Purim, commemorating the events of the biblical Book of Esther in ancient Persia (now Iran). The wicked Persian premier, Haman, plotted to wipe out all the Jews (sound familiar?) but was ultimately thwarted. Purim falls into the “they tried to kill us, [...]
Ring Around the Moon
Posted in Astronomy, Education, Environment, Inspiration, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, My Life, Nature, Opinion, Personal Observations, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Education, Environment, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, My Life, Nature, Opinion, science, Space, Thoughts on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this month (February 7, to be exact), was the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat. Like some other Jewish holidays, it occurs on a full moon. But unlike Purim (the following full moon), Passover (the next full moon after that) or Succot (either a Harvest Moon or Hunter Moon), the Tu B’Shevat full moon happens [...]
Partners in Torah
Posted in Community, Culture, Education, Faith, Fun, History, Inspiration, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kosher, Law, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Opinion, People, Personal, Personal Observations, Relationships, Religion, Reviews, Spirituality, Style, Thoughts, Toronto, tagged Community, Culture, Education, Faith, Inspiration, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, People, Religion, Reviews, Spirituality, Thoughts on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, I signed up with a program called Partners in Torah. It is run by that fabulous adult Jewish education organization, Aish HaTorah. [1] The premise is quite simple. People who, for various reasons, cannot get together with a study partner to learn Torah, Jewish history, Hebrew, Talmud, Halacha (Jewish law), and [...]
Exhibit Two Turns 20 Today (The Big Shot!)
Posted in Culture, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Opinion, Parenting, Personal, Personal Observations, Relationships, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, tagged Community, Culture, Faith, Family, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, parenting, Religion, Thoughts on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just when I barely got my mind around the fact that my son, Exhibit Two, was no longer five years old and was, in actual fact, a teenager… he turns 20!! (My son with his sister, the lovely Exhibit One) It seems hardly fair, to my mind. For those of you who think that you [...]
Exhibit One Moves to Israel!
Posted in Community, Culture, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Israel, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Love, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Parenting, Personal, Religion, Thoughts, Travel, tagged Children, Community, Culture, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, parenting, Religion, Thoughts, Travel on February 6, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Those of you who have been following this blog for a while are aware that my daughter, Exhibit One, along with her brother, my son Exhibit Two, first went to Israel last May on a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip. (My daughter on a camel during her Birthright trip) A few months later, Exhibit One returned to Israel [...]
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