A Healthy Way to Break Your Tisha B'Av or Yom Kippur Fast

A Healthy Way to Break Your Tisha B'Av or Yom Kippur Fast

How do you break your fast on Tisha B'Av or Yom Kippur without spiking blood sugar or causing bloat, nausea or stomach pain? Read on for some meal ideas for ending your fast in a healthful and blood-sugar-stabilizing way.

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Avoid Dehydration with a Homemade Electrolyte Sports Drink

Avoid Dehydration with a Homemade Electrolyte Sports Drink

Do you get dehydrated during long fasts like Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur? To alleviate the potential for dehydration skip the sports drinks before the fast begins. Instead, prepare a homemade electrolyte beverage made with coconut water and other common ingredients.

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Gluten-Free and Vegan Linzer Cookies

Gluten-Free and Vegan Linzer Cookies

A a child, I always looked forward to eating a Linzer cookie during the kiddish after Shabbat morning services. There was about those 2-layered sandwich cookies stuck together with jam, with a hole on the top. With this memory in mind, I recreated the Linzer cookies of my childhood using gluten-free and vegan ingredients

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