Judaica Store Blog

If you’re thinking about your favorite people this Purim, you should buy them a gift basket for mishloach manot and spread the love! There’s nothing nicer than coming home to see a beautiful Purim basket sitting on your kitchen counter. Purim was my favorite holiday when I was a tyke, and it wasn’t just because of the candy. Purim reminds you of who your friends are and it can help you make new friends too! In fact, I met one of my best friends at school when I gave him misloach manot. Giving is a way for us to remember that all Jews are entitled to some tasty food and drink on this holy day.

In these baskets, gourmet goodies are presented with lots of flair, and tons of taste. Wafers and chocolates, hamentashen and wine, flowers and candy all remind us that spring isn’t so far away, and that when it comes you’ll have plenty of friends and family to celebrate with in the warm weather.

You don’t have to splurge, but you can if you want. Eichlers.com has a wide variety of Purim baskets available in all styles and sizes. So go ahead and give on this day of feasting and gladness – besides, it’s a mitzvah!

Holidays are over but this doesn’t mean that shopping season is over too. Oh no. There’s always a Bar Mitzvah, a wedding, a birthday or even just a romantic date that requires some sort of a gift. Of course that a lot of people will just write a check or give a gift card, but what’s fun in that?

Here’s a great gift idea for you – Challah Covers! Yup, a classic and elegant challah cover will make any Jew happy. Hey, who likes a dry challah? Not me! There are many Challah covers available today, heck, there are even designer challah covers.

For example, take a look at the always lovely, Yair Emanuel Challah Covers from our famous Judaica store. Like all of his, the challah covers are hand-made and fashionable and will suite any Shabbat table. The designs are numerous and the products include Hand-Embroidered Challah Covers, Raw Silk Applique'd Challah Covers and Silk Painted Challah Covers.

What else? Our Judaica Store Terylene and Velvet Challah Covers offer a classic design and a timeless לכבוד שבת קדש decoration that will make your guests feel right at home!

For more Challah Covers and other gift ideas, visit our Judaica store at www.Eichler's.com today!

I was shopping for a new Challah cover from an online Judaica store when I discovered their wide selection of beautiful kippot and yarmulkes—I’ve never seen so many in one place outside of a synagogue!

For the fashion conscious, I recommend a silk designer yarmulke by Yama & Sons, available in tons of unique prints, even paisley! Satin kippot are also very striking and come in a variety of colors, from the memorable fuchsia and turquoise options to the more subdued black, gray, and silver—and everything in between.

I think my personal favorites are the suede embossed yarmulkes, in modern and artistic patterns that exceeded my skullcap expectations. I love the subtle checker pattern, or the two-toned zebra kippot for a look that’s sure to get some attention.

Even children can find excellent kippot from www.Eichers.com. My sons adore the hand painted suede yarmulkes featuring everything from SpongeBob SquarePants to Scooby Doo, in addition to scenes from the Torah like Noah’s ark.

Looking at the Jewish section of a regular bookstore is so depressing—the selection is just so minimal, offering none of my favorite genres like humor, women’s interests, Kabbalah, and more. If you want a satisfying assortment of Jewish books, you really have to visit a Judaica store. From there, the options are endless. I laughed for hours reading Simcha Weinstein’s “Shtick Shift,” a guide to 21st-century Jewish humor.

When I’m looking for some right-to-left reading such as Seforim, I can also trust my favorite Judaica store to have to products I’m looking for, all available in elegant hardcover editions that I display prominently at home.

By the way, www.Eichlers.com has some beautiful options if you’re looking to buy a Mezuza. I love the sand blasted products, available in vibrant gold and blue, and well as brown, copper, and silver. The wooden Mezuzot are also very elegant, available in timeless designs in addition to more modern patterns. And plastic Mezuzot are just as diverse—you can get a classic white and gold design, or a marble pattern that looks like the real thing.

Now that my family and I have moved into a larger house, I’m eager to start hosting my own Shabbat dinners, in particular to thank my mother for all the hard work she’s put into our meals over the years.

But before I could start inviting people over, I needed supplies, both for preparation and presentation. It’s amazing how many Shabbat items I found at an online Judaica store, www.Eichlers.com.

We actually already have a Challah board, a beautiful hand painted wooden piece with a matching knife. Or, it used to have a matching knife—I think that got lost somewhere in the moving process. I’m currently torn between two replacement options: a silver-plated Challah board with an engraved knife, or a wooden board with crumb trays and a built-in slot to store the matching knife that comes with it. I’ll probably choose the latter, to avoid misplacing another knife. Plus, wood like that will go with any Challah cover.

For some help behind the scenes, I’m eyeing a cool bug checker for lettuce available online at the same Judaica store. On such a holy day, the last thing I want to be worrying about is insects!

I was getting so tired of wearing cookie cutter tzitzis – if it wasn’t too short or too tight it was the wrong cut and style. Luckily, I discovered the Tzitzis Wizard at www.Eichlers.com, a step-by-step process that can help you design the perfect tzitzis.

You begin by selecting your lineage (Ashkenazic is always a safe bet), then you can filter by material and style – cotton, wool, mesh, or Perf-Tzit. Next, select your desired width and length – the width choices range from 18 inches (for men 5’4” to 5’6”) to 28 inches (for men over 6’2”). Finally, options for all sizes!

After choosing a width and length, you can now truly personalize your tzitzis with a variety of style options, including the neckline, knotting, and tassel materials. After that, you’re all set – the website will take you to the finished page for your product, in addition to providing you with some relevant suggestions for similar tzitzis, in case you’re not quite sure what you want (or how many).

Visit Eichler’s online Judaica store today and give the Tzitzis Wizard a spin – you’ll soon forget what it’s like to wear a tzitzis you didn’t design!

And now for my favorite Judaica Store subject: Kosher Inventions! Yes, too many good Jews are focusing their minds on fancy stuff like physics and biology, but luckily for us, there are still a few thinkers out there that just want to make our life easier. Kudos.

You know, when Tevye the milkman had to wake up on Shabbat mornings, he had a rooster as an alarm clock. But most of us do not live in Tsarist Russia anymore and don’t have chickens in our back yard. So how can you make sure you wake for Shabbos Shacharis without accidently touching the alarm buttons in your dreams?


Well, that’s why they invented the KosherClock! Yup, the KosherClock features:

• Shabbat Mode- All alarms shut off by themselves after one minute! Once set, no need to touch your KosherClock on Shabbos! NO PROBLEM WITH MUKTZAH.
• 5 Beep Alarms- on Shabbos wake up for shacharis, enjoy a snooze, don't miss your chavrusa and be on time for mincha.
• Record Feature- on weekdays only, wake up to the voice of a loved one, or a recorded melody. (Do not use recorded alarms on Shabbat.)
• Photo Frame- holds a 2.4" x 2.7" picture.

How does it work? Good question. You set the first alarm to 7:30am… na… to early. How about 8:00am. Sounds better already! Then you set the second alarm to 8:15am. Each of the alarms will ring for one minute before it shuts itself automatically and you don’t have to do anything!

For more info about the KosherClock, visit you one-stop Judaica store at www.Eichlers.com!