Honey Cake: stories and recipes

We are reposting this honey cake article from 2020, lest these recipes sink out of sight in the list of blog posts, and our holiday baking suffers. But first, an article on the history of honey cake from Janet Stein-Larson of the kitchen Committee. The Kitchen Corner:...

Dancing on break until end of September

Dancers, I’m just adding this update.. we will be taking a break until the end of September.I hope everyone manages to dance with springy knees and no Covid. We keep hoping that we will no longer have to dance with masks, but so far everybody is simply getting...

Dancing in the Social Hall and on Zoom

Hi dancers… Wednesday June 8 at 7 pm we can meet in the Beth Ami Social Hall for Israeli dancing, and i will also have zoom going (see new url below). It will be something of an experiment to see how it goes. Note I set the time a bit earlier, at 7. I might put...

Will we ever dance away from Zoom?

We were just about to try dancing in person in Beth Ami’s social hall when Omicron sent us back to Zoom. The social hall floor is not optimal, but there is good ventilation there. We will see if we can try it again in the future. Dancing on Zoom at home is not...

Leanne’s recordings for Purim 2026

Rough recordings. This reflects our latest decisions on key. Solos are not divvied up in these. Tempos on some things could get faster when we are more familiar. Under Galleries on the Beth Ami Website you can scroll down to 2017 to find videos. I am adding a pdf of...