Gerri Miller
By Gerri Miller
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Food Jake Cohen celebrates the joys of “Jew-ish” cooking
Depending on your heritage. Jewish food may be your bubbe’s brisket, babkas and latkes or the shakshuka, bourekas or dolmeh recipes your family brought over from Iraq. In his cookbook “Jew-ish,” subtitled “Recipes from a Modern Mensch,” food writer, editor and test kitchen director Jake Cohen puts a fresh spin on classic dishes from the…
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News At one JCC, new classes make it easy for adults with disabilities to tune in
Jews may be the “chosen people,” but when it comes to Jewish education, adults with disabilities have often been left out. Coinciding with Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, the Marcus JCC of Atlanta’s Lisa F. Brill Institute for Jewish Learning offers inclusive education classes through the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning virtually…
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Culture To Adapt a ‘Book Thief
Based on Australian author Markus Zusak’s best-selling 2006 novel of the same name, the movie “The Book Thief” concerns a young German girl who finds solace in purloined literature and befriends the Jewish refugee her family hides in their cellar. The film stars Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as the foster parents of Liesel (Sophie…
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Food Meet Joseph Levy, The Man Behind ‘Spinning Plates’
With the popularity of Top Chef, The Food Network and just about any TV show focused on food, it was only a matter of time until a film on the people who’ve made cooking a lifelong labor of love made it to the silver screen. The three restaurants showcased in the new documentary “Spinning Plates”…
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Food A Jewish Chef in Fiji
There are few Jews living in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, aside from a small Jewish community in the capital city of Suva who are mostly descendants of Australian merchants who arrived in the 1880s. One of them is Ofir Yudilevich, executive chef at the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa on the…
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