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If there is one thing I really miss is my grandmother’s cooking. Oh, her legendary chicken soup passed from generation to generation in our family. Historians say that my grandmother's soup came even before the chicken. Even before the egg! I decided to share the recipe with you guys.

Grandma’s Famous Jewish Chicken Soup:

Ingredients

Chicken
Water

Directions

Put chicken in pot. Cover with water. Cook. Eat. Yes eat eat! You don’t like? Why you think you’ll get something better in a restaurant? Then go! I don’t care. You don’t eat, you don’t eat. I’ll eat alone. Golda’s children loves this soup!

My grandmother had lots and lots of special recipes that I just loved and for years I’ve been begging my wife to make a kugel, just once, but she can’t even cook an egg. So you know what I did? I bought this Cooking Jewish cook book and let me tell you, its got everything from gefilte fish to Tanta Esther Gittel’s Husband’s Second Wife Lena’s Nut Cake.


Make your Jewish belly happy! For the biggest selection of kosher cookbooks and for all your Judaica needs visit www.eichlers.com

Dudu Fisher, one of the greatest Israeli artists, is planning a fall tour here in the East Coast. Fisher is known all over the world thanks to a magical performance as Jean Valjean in the original cast of the hit musical "Les Miserables." Actually, he was the first actor to be excused from weekend performances of the London production - as he is Orthodox.

During October 2009, Fisher will perform here in New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Boston, Baltimore, head up to Canada to do some more singing and end up in Kansas City before going back to Israel.


Here is your chance to get ready for the show. Check out Fisher's CD Shabbat Shalom - a treasury of Shabbat songs. It is a traditional collection with songs like Lecha Dodi, Shabbat Hamalka and other songs that have been a part of the jewish people for generations. This album brings you all the classic melodies coupled with a touch of the modern.

This CD and more of Fisher's music is available on line at www.eichlers.com together with all of your Judaica needs. Give us Eichlers a visit, and in the meantime, enjoy Fisher's Chazonim Oif Probe:

Yair Emanuel is a true Israeli artist. Being born on a Kibbutz and growing up in an Orthodox home in Jerusalem, Emanuel’s art is deeply influenced with a unique fusion of traditional Judaic motifs and modern Israeli and Asian art which he also acquired during his studies at the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Emanuel hand crafts his Judaic art in a Jerusalem studio and uses special techniques such as silk painting, hand embroidery and wood painting.

Check out this lovely Oriental Shabbat set:

The Shabbat set consists of two Shabbat candlesticks and a Kiddush cup. When the candlesticks are overturned they become a Havdala set. The vivid and harmonious colors characterize Emanuel's hand-painted ritual articles. Each wooden article is hand-painted with brush using acrylic colors and than lacquered.

This is another lovely piece, a "Jerusalem" Challah Board and matching knife:

Both the Shabbat set and the Challah set can be used for eating and drinking, and can be washed in water since it is coated with several layers of lacquer.

At www.Eichlers.com you can find many of Emanuel art, including a Raw Silk applique'd Tallit setand and adorable Mayim Achronim cups. For all your Judaica needs drop in to www.eichlers.com and don't miss out on the great deals going on every day!

One of Israel’s most celebrated artists is the singer songwriter - Adi Ran. Ran started his musical career back in the 1990’s in Tel-Aviv’s underground bar scene. His songs were heavily critical, humorist and even anarchistic, influenced with punk music, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin.



In 1993 Ran became a baal teshuva and got closer and closer to the Breslov Hasidim that dance around the streets of Tel Aviv and spread the word of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. But Ran’s music only got better and better. He kept his rock influence and humorist spirit (he’s got a song titled “It’s so fun to be Jewish) and began recording albums that can only be defined as Hasidic Underground.



Today, Adi Ran leads the Jewish original alternative music, and proudly carries the title “the Rocker” of Jewish music. It’s hard to even try and explain the magic that is happening in Ran's live concerts, as his music brings together all kinds of Israelis from all over the religious spectrum. People can not stay still when Ran starts to jam live on his guitar, and the next couple of hours are accompanied with wild dancing, jumping and singing like in no other show.


No need to travel to Israel - 3 of Adi Ran's albums are available online at www.eichlers.com and they are all really good. So log on and get yourself into the underground Hasidic scene.

Mazal Tov! Your little boy made it to the Tora. We hope you tossed the candies hard enough… I remember my Bar-Mitzvah like it was yesterday. Most of all, I remember the gifts. Oh, the wonderful gifts. My family and friends gave me so much money on my Bar-Mitzvah – I had enough to put a down payment on a house. Of course that my parents took the money and put it in a bank account or something stupid like that. They took all of the money. I was devastated. Oh, the humanity!

Children, what is our lesson for today? Well, the lesson we’ve learned is ‘don’t give money to Bar-Mitzvah kids because their parents will take it.' Good! So, what should you give the Bar-Mitzvah boy?

How about the The Kestenbaum Edition Tikkun?

Just look at this! It is a Tikkun like no other. It includes the entire Chumash, the Haftaros, and the Five Megillos, in newly set Torah script. For the Bar Mitzvah boy this will be the Tikkun of choice because this Tikkun is unique - not only in the quality of its presentation, but in these many new features:

• Facing the Tikkun page is an English translation and a concise new commentary of Scriptural songs, dotted letters, and so on
• Laws and customs of the Torah reading
• Bar Mitzvah Anthology with the laws and meaning of tefillin and the halachic customs of the Bar Mitzvah

There is no better Bar Mitzvah Gift - it's thoughtful and useful for anyone with a love of the Torah reading and a desire to understand it better. And - this is a gift for a lifetime, because its usefulness never ends.

Got one already? No sweat. How about a KOSHERLAMP?


For that Bar-Mitzvah kid that won't stop reading - here’s an easy way to read in bed on Shabbat!

It’s called KOSHERLAMP and he'll be able to Direct the light -- Dim the light – and even “Turn it off!” thanks to a technology which allows you to direct the light and set the brightness of your lamp with a simple twist of the shade.

And last but not least, give that Bar-Mitzvah kid something to talk about with a special gift-boxed set of The Weekly Halachah Discussion:

Breaking the ice was never easier with this comprehensive review of practical halachic issues related to the weekly Torah portion. Presented in a thorough, decisive manner with classical and contemporary halachic opinions. From separating challah to the laws of yichud and the blessings made on various breakfast cereals, this work is an asset to every Bar-Mitzvah boy.

So what are you waiting for? For all your Judaica needs drop in to www.eichlers.com - dont miss out on the great deals going on every day!

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