What Gift Do You Give at a Jewish Wedding?
As the summer heats up, our calendars start filling with weddings and celebrations and our heads start spinning with worry over finding the perfect gifts.
Between MyJewishLearning’s editors, we’ve gone to enough weddings (both our own and others’) to be able to give some advice. So we’ve gotten together to share the most successful gifts we’ve given and received. We hope our picks can ease your gift-giving angst!
Friday Night Essentials Shabbat begins with candle-lighting and the accompanying blessings and rituals, which present great opportunities for useful gifts. |
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Cookbooks Filled with brand-new dishes and cookware, a newlyweds’ kitchen is a great place to experiment with recipes. Here are some of our top picks: |
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The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy ($22.98) |
We hope our guide helps you navigate through the whirlwind that is wedding season.
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Here’s wishing you and your loved ones a hearty “mazel tov,” from all of us.
Hanukkah
Pronounced: KHAH-nuh-kah, also ha-new-KAH, an eight-day festival commemorating the Maccabees’ victory over the Greeks and subsequent rededication of the temple. Falls in the Hebrew month of Kislev, which usually corresponds with December.
kosher
Pronounced: KOH-sher, Origin: Hebrew, adhering to kashrut, the traditional Jewish dietary laws.