Eric Schulmiller is the cantor at Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore in Plandome, New York. Follow him on Twitter @ericbop.
Eric Schulmiller
By Eric Schulmiller
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Culture It’s Jews vs. Jaws This Month on the Discovery Channel
Sunday, August 4, marks the beginning of an important week for all lovers of our finned, fanged friends from the deep: Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week. At 25 years and counting, Shark Week is this country’s longest-running cable programming event. But many might not realize that there’s a Jewish connection to this summer phenomenon, and…
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News For the Glove of the Game
Whether for catching balls, protecting hands or knocking your opponent’s block off, gloves have played many roles in American sports and culture — and Jews have been a big part of practically all of them. Jewish ingenuity outfitted Hall of Famer Hank (The Hebrew Hammer) Greenberg with a revolutionary baseball mitt, made the boxing glove…
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News Showing Their True Colors
“Everything looks worse in black and white.” – a lyric from “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon The last picture ever to be developed with Kodachrome film was processed on December 30 at the lone lab still handling the film — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kan. A year after Kodak announced that it was retiring Kodachrome film…
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Opinion The Value of Brokenness
“It did not take long before the first heavy grey stones came tumbling down, and the children of the village amused themselves as they flung stones into the many coloured windows. When the first rays of a cold and pale November sun penetrated the heavy dark clouds, the little synagogue was but a heap of…
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Food Q & A (Part 2): Chef Amanda Cohen Chats About Vegetarianism and a Humorous Kitchen
Last week we sat down with the visionary vegetarian Chef Amanda Cohen of New York’s Dirt Candy, one of the city’s most acclaimed and forward thinking vegetarian restaurants. This week she discusses her vegetarian rebel philosophy, more Jewish food memories, and using humor in her restaurant. Eric Schulmiller: You were a vegetarian for sixteen years….
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Food Q & A: Chef Amanda Cohen Dishes on “Iron Chef” and Jewish Food
The Jew and the Carrot recently caught up with Amanda Cohen, the visionary chef-owner of Dirt Candy – one New York’s most acclaimed vegetarian restaurants – who took on Chef Morimoto last month in a broccoli challenge on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America.” Cohen, who put up a good fight but was ultimately defeated…
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