Preview of Kosher Cooking Carnival–Passover Recipes

I’ll be hosting the Kosher Cooking Carnival this month. But since it won’t appear until after the holiday, I selected a few posts for those who haven’t decided what to cook yet.

Leora and Ilana-Davita had the same idea and posted selections of recipes on their blogs.

I put up a recipe for chicken with black olives and tomatoes.

You can try Israeli Potato Salad at Ilana-Davita.

Leora suggests Chicken Soup with Matzah Balls.

G6 gives us Strawberry Fluff.

Israeli Kitchen has been experimenting with many Passover recipes. Her most recent ones are Passover Cooking: Sorbets and Meat-Stuffed Potato Patties.

Batya gives suggestions for dieting on Pesach.

The Preparing for Passover edition of Haveil Havalim is up at Ima on the Bima.

And since Passover recipes only improve with age, here is last year’s Pre-Pesach Kosher Cooking Carnival.

Click here to submit recipes to the next Kosher Cooking Carnival, which will appear here on April 22, 2009.

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Finding Your Place in a New Community

Those of us who have made aliyah to Israel from western countries experience both a sense of loss and a huge cultural adjustment. In a guest post at An Englishman in New Jersey, I talk about the things that helped me feel at home.

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Soldier Gives Birth, No One Detects Pregnancy (Including Her)

This morning on Channel Two radio show Seder Hayom, host Keren Neubach interviewed Meital, 19-year-old mother of a four-month-old baby called Amitai. Amitai was born while the mother was doing basic training in the Israeli army. Meital had no idea she was pregnant, and none of the army’s doctors considered the possibility despite Meital’s many medical complaints. She was already pregnant when she began her service.

Meital didn’t realize she was pregnant for the following reasons:

1. She is overweight, and didn’t feel the baby’s movements or notice the weight gain.
2. She has irregular periods.
3. She was on birth control pills.

At one point she got off the bus and crawled to the infirmary, where the doctor laughed at her and sent her away. Other times doctors prescribed antibiotics and painkillers.  The army even required her to do another thirty days of basic training because she did not pass the first session. Meital was pregnant when she began her service.

When she began having contractions, Meital called her parents to bring her to the emergency room. The nurse diagnosed a urinary tract infection, and when the membranes ruptured, the nurse claimed it was urinary incontinence. Meital’s mother suggested that perhaps her daughter was in labor. A gynecologist checked her, and the healthy baby was born within minutes.

She received NIS 800 from the army, a release notice, and no further contact.

My husband and I kept waiting for Neubach to ask Meital about the baby’s father but she didn’t. But one of the lawyer’s complaints in his lawsuit against the army is that the father missed out on the pregnancy.

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Links for March 8, 2009

Our friend Hagay Amir, an orthopedic surgeon, was instrumental in replacing an arm lost by an IDF soldier with a state-of-the-art “bionic arm.“

Haveil havalim is up at The Real Shaliach.

Jews aren’t the only bloggers with carnivals. Check out the Festival of Frugality at Green Panda Treehouse.

And Nadneyda reports about the effect of a Palestinian Authority decision on the pediatric cancer patients she treats.

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What to Do When the Elevator is Broken

The above sign is one of my favorites. Located near the elevator door at the Avnet Mall in Petach Tikva, it reads, “When the elevator is broken, use the stairs.” In case you still don’t know what to do, a helpful graphic is provided.

Click here to see an unusual graphic.

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Purim Costume Brainstorming

For an updated list for 2010, see Easy Costume Ideas.

Reiza, who is pregnant and due right around Purim, tweeted that she hasn’t thought about Purim costumes yet for her three kids. I always find it hard to come up with easy, inexpensive costumes. After Purim, of course, I have dozens of ideas.  Reiza wrote, “Costumes should be eco-friendly (aka cheap).”

Please post suggestions for easy-to-execute costumes in the comments. My own small ones want to be a waiter and Queen Esther. I can handle that.

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