Category Archives: Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites | Cooking in Style

It’s the Friday before Rosh Hashanah so we are gushing about something that was made in Israel that you can sport while you enjoy cooking adventures in the kitchen for the holidays.

Once again, our friends at ModernTribe have a practical item that’s fashionable and meaningful! Do you want to make sure you keep your temple clothes kugel-free? Want to avoid a clothes-altering explosion of powdered sugar from the honey cake you baked? Do you want to make it look like you were rockin’ it in the kitchen while you sneak in the catered platter for your holiday guests? Protect your outfit and look adorable! We are totally gushing over the Modern Pomegranate Apron designed by Barbara Shaw and made in Israel.

During this International Week at The Wedding Yentas, we wanted to make sure we tip our hats to some of the most exotic places to be married by honoring them with Real Weddings and a Friday Favorites installment. We’ve taken virtual trips to Mexico and South Africa and today we are visiting Israel by obsessing over the apron.

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Why pomegranates? Pomegranates are a symbol of fertility and abundance, so it’s only fitting that you should wear it with pride during this season of new year, atonement, and harvest. Thankfully, ModernTribe brings Judaica and Jewish gifts to the new generation of Jews that will help them express and develop their Jewish identity, and this apron is another example of how ModernTribe successfully equips its customers with the best Jewish merchandise available.

And it could be yours! Get cookin’ and look cool while doing it. Just enter to win for your chance to have your own apron.

Leave a comment below and share with us your favorite Rosh Hashanah food! You may enter through Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be announced on Monday! May your luck be as sweet as your apples and honey!

Friday Favorites | Bubbe’s Brisket

It’s Friday, so today we are sharing a favorite recipe: brisket!!

We’re not going to pretend that we are all-knowing when it comes to cooking. In fact, our favorite tool in the kitchen is the take-out menu. However, when we do want to dabble in the kitchen and use anything other than a microwave, we can find easy recipes on cooking websites. But what if you want entertainment and a good recipe? That’s where “Bubbe” comes in from our new favorite online series, “Feed Me Bubbe.”

This bubbe is adorable and her grandson is her sidekick in the kitchen which is totally cute. We’re plotzing over how special that is! Not only does Bubbe show off recipes, she answers questions to emails and introduces the Yiddish word of the day. Perfect.

So, learn a thing or two from our new favorite cooking show!

Real Weddings | Kansas City, MO

BREAKING NEWS! Laine and Adam are married! The two television news anchors created a wedding day that showcased their love and devotion to each other, accented with hues of purples and blues. Not even a little rain could sprinkle frowns on their faces. Brides and grooms: Learn from this. If the possibility of rain becomes a reality on your wedding day, don’t despair. Realize that there are so many cute photo options because umbrellas make awesome props! We love the photos of Laine cuddled up with Adam beneath a wind-blown umbrella.

Laine presented Adam with a super cool groom’s cake! The cake features the couple skiing pine tree-topped slopes and even decked out with ski lift gondolas! The tradition of a groom’s cake has its roots from the American South. It’s considered to be a gift from the bride to the groom and usually pays tribute to one of his interests or hobbies. Groom’s cakes are fun — and delicious — ways to celebrate the bride’s new husband! Laine did a great job with Adam’s.

Reporting live from TheWeddingYentas.com, mazel tov, Laine and Adam!

Venue – Club 1000
Photographer – Solar Photographers
Videographer – Kairos Moment Wedding Film
Event Designer – Soiree Event Design
Florist – Bella Design Studio
Ceremony Entertainment – Guitar Elegance
Reception Entertainment – Saucy Jack
Bakery – Caren’s Cakes

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Keeping Up With the Friday Favorites

Nothing gives us a bigger laugh than watching funny Hava Nagila videos on YouTube. Geeky, yes, but there are so many ridiculous versions online, so if you need a chill pill and haven’t refilled your Xanax, let the glory of the Internet guide you to your happy place.

This particular Hava Nagila is from one of the greatest in a category I like to call “Jewishy movies” where Jewish icons fill the screen and Yiddish plays on words are abundant in the script. Keeping Up With The Steins stars everyone’s favorite HBO foul-mouthed and steaming-tempered Hollywood agent, Ari Gold, who’s so good at playing Ari Gold that we don’t even care to call him by his real name (Jeremy Piven). Guess what? He basically plays Ari Gold’s twin brother in Keeping Up With The Steins so naturally, Jewishy, Hollywood hilarity ensues. Now, the story revolves around planning a boy’s Bar Mitzvah and, yes, we know, we are a wedding planning site, but let’s face it: except for the pubescent boy and a Torah and a potential gift of a Mont Blanc pen, planning a Bar Mitzvah and planning a wedding are similar experiences (okay, and it’s possible you might even receive a Mont Blanc pen for your wedding). In this day and age, it seems like weddings get bigger and fancier and everyone’s got to have the newest, trendiest feature (last year was definitely The Year of the Photobooth, and it’s going strong… which we LOVE! Yentalicious!!).

So, to honor the biggest and the best, we present to you a Hava Nagila sung by one of the biggest and the best, not only in music, but in The Tribe.

Enjoy and happy Friday!

Winner Announced!

Wow! We had an awesome turnout to the party with last week’s Friday Favorites. Thank you to everyone who participated. You all contributed such amazing anecdotes about you, your loved ones, and that necklace we all drooled over. Thank goodness our winner was selected at random, so we wouldn’t have to make difficult decisions ourselves. The most difficult decision we like to encounter is choosing between red velvet or chocolate marble wedding cakes.

Still, we offer heartfelt congratulations to ERIN! Enjoy your Tree of Life necklace brought to you by ModernTribe Jewish Gifts. We hope you’ll wear it in good health and with spectacular outfits!

Please continue to check back for other fabulous Friday Favorites sweepstakes. We are so grateful to our sponsors who make these prizes possible! And to all of you who shared about growing your trees or honored women with strong branches, we are truly touched that you shared with us Yentas.