Carla Birnberg is a journalist, noted health/fitness columnist, and author of the book, The Whole Megillah: Mitzvahs, Matzo Balls and Everything in Between. Carla and her husband adopted their daughter from Guatemala in 2006.

Shabbat is the Hebrew word for Sabbath, the day of rest in the Jewish religion, that begins before sundown on Friday night and ends right after sundown on Saturday night.