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Food Mechaia wine blends Italian grapes with a Yiddish name
Yiddish was spoken in Howard Paul ’s home until he was 5. That’s when “my father was explaining to a friend some stupid thing I did, and I turned and said to him, I understand what you’re saying. And that ended Yiddish as his code language.” Fitting then, that the East Bay winemaker has a…
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Recipes Beth Lee’s ‘The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook’ has essential Rosh Hashanah recipes
Some day in the (hopefully) not too distant future, when talk turns to how productive or unproductive we were during Covid, Beth Lee will be able to best many of us: She wrote a cookbook. Not only that, but it’s her first. And it came together in a matter of months. “The Essential Jewish Baking…
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News Palestinian peace activist chooses California Jewish writer to tell his life story
When a Palestinian peace activist who spent a decade in Israeli prison decides to share his life story, asking an American Jewish ally to write his biography might seem like an unusual way to go. But Sulaiman “Souli” Khatib has devoted his adult life to promoting understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, and working with such…
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