Leah Hochbaum Rosner
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
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News Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to ‘Hava Nagila’ as Party Classic Nears 100
Not every Jew has had a bar or bat mitzvah. Not every Jew has attended a Passover Seder. Not every Jew has planted a tree in Israel. But if there is one thing that brings together virtually all Jews — and large swaths of non-Jews — it is “Hava Nagila.” The most joyous of Jewish…
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News Bible Study
For his first book, “The Know-It-All” (Simon & Schuster, 2004), Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs tasked himself with reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica — from “a-ak” to “zywiec” — to become the smartest person in the world. When it came time for him to pen a second work, he wanted to immerse himself in something even…
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News Sephardic Flavors
For us Ashkenazim, getting guidance in cooking the cuisine of our ancestors is easy: We just consult one of the many Ashkenazic cookbooks in our libraries. But for Syrian Jews raised in the Sephardic tradition, finding recipes that existed outside the minds of aging Syrian women has been nearly impossible. Until now, that is. Poopa…
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News As New Year Dawns, Jewish Women Mark Milestones
Just in time for the new year, several notable firsts have taken place in the world of Jewish women. On Sunday, September 9, the first Torah to have been scribed by a woman was unveiled at Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, located in midtown Manhattan, before being transported to its home at the United Hebrew…
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News A Fishy Tradition
The Jewish New Year should be about spirituality, about Jews’ aspirations to be better people than they were the year before, about their hopes to find and stick to the righteous path. But like most other Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah is really about a little bit of theology and a whole lot of food. And…
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News Old World Online
For most of us, Facebook is an easy way to keep tabs on friends, enemies, exes and currents. But from the start of the Facebook phenomenon, Jacob Orin Gold, 22, saw the site as a means of helping Jews stay connected to their heritage. In June, the recent Princeton grad launched “Straight Reppin’ My Shtetl!,”…
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