Holidays

Kol Nidre Meaning and History: Why This Ancient Yom Kippur Prayer Still Stops Us in Our Tracks If you’ve ever stood in a packed synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, you know the feeling. The lights are dim, the room is hushed, and then it starts...

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August 18, 2026

Thanksgiving Catering in Chicago: How to Time Your Order

August 18, 2026

Thanksgiving Catering in Chicago: How to Time Your Order

Thanksgiving is the one holiday where the food and the schedule are the same problem. A single home oven, a fixed dinner hour, guests arriving over a ninety-minute window, and a menu where six dishes all want to be hot at once. Catering solves that, ...

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August 18, 2026

When to Book Holiday Party Catering in Chicago

August 18, 2026

When to Book Holiday Party Catering in Chicago

Most holiday parties do not fall apart because of the food. They fall apart because decisions arrive out of order. A host picks a date, then discovers the venue needs a certificate of insurance. A company approves a budget, then learns the room has n...

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August 18, 2026

How to Host a Large Rosh Hashanah Dinner Without Losing the Evening

August 18, 2026

How to Host a Large Rosh Hashanah Dinner Without Losing the Evening

There is a point, usually somewhere around twenty-eight guests, where a Rosh Hashanah dinner stops being cooking and becomes operations. The menu barely changes. What changes is that your oven has four racks, your table has one leaf, your dishwasher ...

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September 9, 2025

High Holiday Catering: When to Book and What to Plan First

September 9, 2025

High Holiday Catering: When to Book and What to Plan First

The Jewish High Holidays are not one meal. In 2026 they are a two-week span containing at least four distinct catering decisions, two of which fall on the same weekend, one of which cannot receive a delivery at all, and one of which has to be ready t...

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