Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Food Israel’s School Lunches May Get a MObama-Style Makeover
One of the signatures of modern Israeli cuisine is fresh, flavorful food made with fruits and vegetables that grow almost year round in the country’s temperate Mediterranean climate. So, it might be a bit surprising to learn that Israeli kids are eating school lunches that are as lacking in freshness and good nutrition as some…
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News Toronto’s Tears for Couple in Mystery Slaying
The Toronto Jewish community has been stunned into a mournful silence by the murder of beloved educator Rochelle Wise and her husband David (Donny) Pichosky in Florida last week. Many turned inward with their grief as the couple was laid to rest on Monday at the Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park. However, one man, whose children…
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Food New York’s Newest Kosher Steakhouses
It’s a kosher carnivore’s delight lately in Manhattan. Hot on the heals of news that The Prime Grill is moving to a larger location in order to accommodate more diners, we learn that La Brochette is coming to 340 Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill. The new kosher steakhouse, is replacing La Carne Grill, whose name…
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Culture It’s Not Easy Being a ‘Rabbi’s Daughter’
When we think of children who carry the burden of having famous parents, we often think of the offspring of movie stars or politicians. But in the Religious Zionist sector of Israeli society, being the child of a prominent rabbi comes with some very heavy baggage. Filmmaker Racheli Wasserman, herself the daughter of such a…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Lights Up the Golden Globes
While the Golden Globes are still fresh on our minds, let’s relive some of those exciting moments: Lena Dunham, who looked lovely in a chocolate brown Zac Posen gown, won for best actress in a TV comedy, and her show “Girls” was named best TV comedy show. And all this happened on the same night…
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The Schmooze One Direction’s Harry Styles’ Tattoo
Tattoo aficionados continue to be intrigued by One Direction’s Harry Styles’ tattoo of his sister Gemma’s name in Hebrew on his left bicep. Either he or the tattoo artist had to have known Hebrew well enough to know an accent mark was needed over the gimel to denote the “j” sound at the beginning of…
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Food Dining in the Dark at Nalaga’at
One doesn’t usually expect restaurant patrons to eat high-end cuisine with their hands. But that is precisely what guests will be encouraged to do when they dine in total darkness at a special pop-up restaurant called BlackOut in New York later this month. Not only will the restaurant be pitch black, but its waiters will…
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The Schmooze Play Dress Up at Walmart
cIt seems we’re barely past Hanukkah, and it’s already time to think ahead to Purim (and of course, to Tu B’Shevat in between). This year, however, there is no need to fret between now and February 23 about where to buy unmistakably Jewish kids’ costumes. You’d think you’d have to seek out a specialty shop…
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