Gazelle Horns This is my grandma’s recipe for Gazelle Horns, which are eaten during Mimouna. They are marzipan-filled puff pastry with cinnamon and rose water. These horn-shaped pastries are widely ...
Peace Tagine My grandmother started making the Peace Tagine when I was about 10. She always cooked prayers and made designs in the food for her guests. She liked to ...
Recipes to Celebrate Mimouna All recipes are courtesy of Ezina Le Blanc Hoff, who is helping to organize the Momouna event at Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas on April 30. ...
The festival of Mimouna honors the end of Passover and marks the beginning of a new period of abundance and prosperity. Traditionally celebrated by Maghrebi, or North African Jews, in ...
Passover during the Civil War During the Civil War, there were about 7,000 Jewish soldiers serving in the Union Army. Many of them saw the war’s effort of freeing the ...