Lucy Cohen Blatter
By Lucy Cohen Blatter
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Food Fire up the grills: Fourth of July barbecue, 2 ways
As American foodies, we love our independence and all, but for us, the best part of the July 4 holiday weekend is the barbecue. Perfectly grilled meat (or veggies), tasty fresh sides and stone fruits roasting in our backyards are what makes our weekend. These days, July 4 barbecuing means backyard grilling, but it wasn’t…
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Fast Forward Putting The ‘High’ In Havdalah — With Marijuana
NEW YORK (JTA) — Marijuana entrepreneur Catherine Goldberg was working on an event with the Orthodox founders of Mitzva Herbal, a company that makes kosher-certified cannabis-infused edibles, when she shared her dream of uniting marijuana-loving Jews over Friday-night dinners. “They were, like, ‘Cat, we can’t smoke on Shabbat,” Goldberg, 28, recalled. “So I figured havdalah,…
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The Schmooze Orthodox Rabbinic Student Rocks ‘American Ninja Warrior’
( — On Monday night’s episode of “American Ninja Warrior,” Orthodox rabbinical student Akiva Neuman competed with his yarmulke, tzizit and a T-shirt that showed a muscular rabbi lifting a Torah over his head. “Usually ‘rabbi’ goes along with ‘pot belly,’ so I’m gonna try and change that,” Neuman, a resident of the Queens borough…
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Life Get Ready for Summer With Modest Swimwear — It’s Also Super-Sexy
“The only options we were finding were these long, flowery dresses that just weren’t our style or skin-tight surfing-style wetsuits,” Wolf says. The company specializes in casual, sporty mix-and-match tops and bottoms. The tops come in all sleeve lengths — from sleeveless to long sleeves — and the bottoms are pants, skirts, shorts or skorts…
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News Synagogues See Condos as Path To Financial Security When Old Neighborhood Gets Pricey
(JTA) — If there’s one story that sums up the changes afoot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a once heavily Jewish neighborhood, it’s the saga surrounding the Anshei Meseritz synagogue. The Orthodox shul at 415 E. Sixth St. is a relic of a time when “tenement” synagogues — so named for the narrow…
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Life Modesty Is the New Sexy on the Red Carpet
Pity Jennifer Lopez. As far as memorable red carpet moments go, she set such a high bar at the 2000 Grammys with her now-legendary plunging green Versace dress that she seemed destined to never top it. But many fashion insiders (and followers) have been buzzing about the actress-singer’s Golden Globes gown earlier this month. That’s…
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Food The Rise of Jewish-Fusion Restaurants
Molly Breidenthal is executive chef at Einat Admony’s new Sephardic-Israeli tapas spot, Combina. JTA – The successful chef and owner of four buzzy restaurants in Manhattan, Einat Admony recently decided to take on a new challenge. The Israel-born chef, who runs two Taïm falafel joints and modern Mediterranean eateries and Bar Bolonat, wanted to create…
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Life Kate Middleton Effect Brings Frum ‘Fascinator’ Hats to Synagogue
The so-called “Kate Middleton effect” — by which anything the Duchess of Cambridge wears becomes an instant best-seller — seems to know no bounds. She has graced the covers of countless magazines; entire blogs are devoted to what she wears. And, as it happens, the duchess is the perfect style icon for observant Jewish women….
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