Honey Tasting & Fall Tablescape

Last year I discovered Rebekah Lowin who’s basically a young, Jewish Martha Stewart. Her blog is chock-full of pretty tablescapes, holiday decor, and recipes, all surrounding the Jewish culture. It was so inspiring to see what she’d come up with in this niche because there is undoubtedly a hole in the Pinterest (and mainstream) world when it comes to creative Jewish lifestyle ideas. And her take on it is fresh and modern while still embodying the traditions from this 4,000 year old religion. Growing up with one Jewish parent and one agnostic parent, I attended Sunday school every week and went to temple on holidays, but still celebrated Christmas (the Santa and tree version) and Easter (the Easter Bunny and chocolate version) never feeling whole-y in one camp or the other when it came to religion (or lack there of). I’ve always considered myself Jew-ish, or Jewish-lite. I love the community, culture and history aspects of religion and Judaism specifically and as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized how important it is to me to keep parts of my Jewish roots, my heritage, alive for me and for the new family I’m building.

And what’s the easiest, and most fun, way to keep my Jewish roots alive? Through the things I already love—celebrating with family and friends, eating food and creating traditions! Rebekah’s blog was a perfect way for me to find new ideas for keeping Judaism fresh and accessible for a Jew-ish girl like me.

Alright, that was a long preamble for a honey tasting post, right? So here it is. It was her idea, I fell in love with it. Copied what I liked, tweaked it a little to make it mine, but mostly took this wonderful thing she wanted to share with the world and used it to have the loveliest evening with my family celebrating Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) in a whole new way.

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