Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Food New Owners Hope To Return Kossar’s Bialys To Glory
Legendary bialy bakery Kossar’s was recently sold, but we’re going to have to wait until the flour dust settles for the new owners to share their long term plans for the landmark Lower East Side bakery. Marc Halprin and Evan Giniger are only the third set of owners since the bakery’s founding in 1936 as…
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Life Anat Hoffman, Women of the Wall Denounce Latest Plan
People like to frame Women of the Wall’s struggle in terms of Jewish religious pluralism. That approach is mistaken, and a confluence of events this week reminds us of that fact. WoW’s fight is for women’s rights, civil rights and equal rights. It occurred to me how important it is to regard WoW’s struggle in…
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Opinion Kippah in Crosshairs as Quebec Mulls Ban
You may have heard that if Quebec’s government has its way, we’ll be seeing far fewer yarmulkes on the province’s streets. We certainly would be seeing none of them on the heads of people working or receiving services at government offices, and public schools, daycare centers and hospitals. The governing Parti Québécois party’s proposed “charter…
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News Filmmaker Joseph Shamash Tries To Bridge Gap With Iran
Joseph Shamash believes that film creates space in real life for conversations to happen. That is his intention with his “One Wish for Iran, Love Israel,” video, which has gone viral since it was uploaded to YouTube in early August. The video shows Israelis and Palestinians from different walks of life and religious backgrounds sharing…
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Food Teen Chefs Dish Advice for Junior MasterChef Contestants
On September 27, 24 culinary whiz kids will whip out their knives and cook for their lives on TV on the first season of Junior MasterChef to hit U.S. television screens. Ranging from eight to 13-years-old, these kids will have to impress kitchen hard-ass Gordon Ramsay and his fellow judges, restaurateur and winemaker Joe Bastianich…
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Food Naked Sea Salt: Taste of the Dead Sea
For ages, people have touted the benefits of rubbing their skin with mud from the Dead Sea. That’s one way to have your mineral-rich Dead Sea salt, but thanks to a new Israeli company called Naked Sea Salt, you can eat it too. The phrase “Naked Sea” may sound familiar. It was the name of…
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The Schmooze Read Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers From 1895
The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project is making it easier for genealogists and historians to do their research. Begun in 2004 and completed last year, the digital archive stores and makes accessible every edition of four different local Jewish publications dating from 1895 to 2010. Anyone with an Internet connection can access the archive, which contains…
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Life Words Drove Hadassa Margolese Away
Somehow, I did not put two and two together. I read Hadassa Margolese’s post (in Hebrew) on the Maariv website back in May about her negative — even traumatizing — experience at her local mikveh (ritual bath) in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Then, recently, I read several Facebook posts she wrote about her family’s move to…
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