Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Bread and Bakers Rising Together
Baker on the Rise: Most employees graduate to jobs at other bakeries. Courtesy of Hot Bread Kitchen Staff. The week before Rosh Hashanah, inside a low-slung East Harlem building under elevated rail tracks, a crew of women will quietly mix, knead, shape and bake challahs in an immaculate kitchen. Their dough will yield thousands of…
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The Schmooze Israeli Artist Assaf Evron Takes Chicago By Storm
Photo: Rea Ben-David When September’s Chicago magazine tipped Assaf Evron as one of “four rising artists worth investing in,” it was the first many in the Windy City had heard of the Israeli-born creator. But Evron has long been a name to watch among the cognoscenti. In Israel, his work is in permanent collections of…
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Opinion Founder of Canadian Nazi Party Runs for Office
John Beattie / Youtube Will voters in a small Canadian town overlook the hate-filled past of a town-council candidate? John Beattie is betting on it. Beattie, the 73-year-old founder of the Canadian Nazi Party, has thrown his hat in the ring for elected office in Minden, an Ontario hamlet of 5,600 better known for tidy…
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Books The Clothes We Carried
Musician Rosanne Cash reminisces about a purple shirt that once belonged to her legendary father. Designer Cynthia Rowley rhapsodizes about the Girl Scouts sash that helped ignite her entrepreneurial spark. And an octogenarian Holocaust survivor named Dorothy Finger shares memories of a suit made with a bolt of cloth she took from her childhood home…
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The Schmooze Bergen-Belsen Scarred Alex Colville for Life
Image courtesy Canadian War Museum The hazy images take up just one small corner of a massive new exhibition on revered Canadian artist Alex Colville at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But his depictions of corpses at Bergen-Belsen, where a young Colville was dispatched to document World War II atrocities, hold the key…
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Opinion Board Member Quits LGBT Synagogue Over Gaza
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah’s Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum / WN Claiming “Hamas propaganda” has infected the pulpit, a director of the nation’s largest LGBT synagogue resigned in an angry e-mail this week, igniting a firestorm on social media. But the rabbi of New York’s Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is calling the resignation letter “a twisted perversion…
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The Schmooze Should National History Museum Quit Being Jewish?
With attendance figures stagnant, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History should change its name, retool its mission, and target broader audiences. That’s the message in a prickly editorial from Liberty City Press, an independent news service whose publisher boasts personal ties to the museum’s founders. Headlined “History Museums Sucking Wind on Independence Mall,” the…
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Food Jewish or Chinese? Try Both At Toronto’s People’s Eatery
Smoked fish platter at People’s Eatery // Photo by Adrian Ravinsky Toronto has become an unlikely mecca for nouveau-Jewish food, from Caplansky’s luscious smoked meat to S. Lefkowitz’s creamy hummus to Fat Pasha’s decadent gribenes. Now, you can add Jewish-Chinese to the mix. Just-opened Peoples Eatery is drawing on the divergent food culture of Spadina…
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