Edible Purim baskets. And, introducing…the cookie fairies!

My very favorite Jewish holiday tradition, bar non, is the mitzvah of mishloach manot - preparing and delivering gifts of homemade goodies to friends and neighbors on Purim day. This is a mitzvah which embodies so much of why Judaism is meaningful to me and why I'm sharing it with my daughters. First of all, I love to prepare food for others. Because I'm married to a man who once told me he would rather "take a food-pill" than eat dinner, I don't get a lot of satisfaction from...

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