Tonight's Faith Feast: An Intercultural Progressive Dinner was a tasty success. A sold-out crowd of 30 guests dined together at the Spokane Buddhist Temple, Temple Beth Shalom and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Her specialty is the carrot tzimmes.
First she browns the chopped onions — two 5 pound bags of them — with six cubes of pareve margarine, to keep it kosher.
According to Jewish Virtual Library, the world contains roughly 13.7 million Jews. An estimated 5.4 million of these live in the United States, making up just 1.74 percent of the country’s population. Even in the nation with the second-largest Jewish population (after Israel), we are a small minority. In light of this, the task of engaging millennials—- people who are currently 13 to 30 years old — can appear crucial to the very survival of Judaism.
Next week Spokane’s Jewish community will observe Passover, an eight-day commemoration honoring the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.