Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Food Introducing the Crogel: Part Bagel, Part Croissant
The crogel is here. You can’t say you didn’t see it coming, what with all the hype last summer about the cronut. If someone could think of crossing a croissant with a donut, then it’s obvious someone else was eventually going to come up with a croissant-bagel hybrid. We can thank Stew Leonard’s, the family-owned…
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Books Gary Shteyngart Insults Canadian Authors
There’s never been any kind of publicity author Gary Shteyngart hasn’t liked, but it seems the same cannot be said about Canadian fiction. The Russian-American writer, currently making the rounds on a book tour for his new memoir, “Little Failure,” managed to dis the oeuvre of writers north of the border while being interviewed by…
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Life Rachel Azaria, Deputy Mayor of Holy Town
It was only five years ago that Rachel Azaria first got involved in local Jerusalem politics as councilwoman. Now a rising star in the municipality, she was sworn in as the city’s new deputy mayor on November 21. Azaria, 36, was first elected to Jerusalem’s city council in 2008. In elections held this past October,…
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The Schmooze Hitchcock Holocaust Doc To Be Screened At Last
A Holocaust documentary by Alfred Hitchcock will be screened in theatres and at festivals later this year, and on television in early 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Europe at the end of World War II. It was not widely known that Hitchcock was enlisted in 1945 by his friend and…
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News Double Murder of Jewish Snowbirds Makes ‘Every Day a Nightmare’ for Daughter
Police have recovered DNA evidence from two women in the heartbreaking double-murder of a Jewish retiree couple who were found slain in their Florida condo home. The female suspects have not yet been identified in the killings of Rochelle Wise and David (Donny) Pichosky — and police in the Ft. Lauderdale suburb of Hallandale Beach…
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Food 50 Minutes With Mollie Katzen
Mollie Katzen recently told a roomful of Google employees, who have wonderful meals prepared for them every day at work, to go home and cook. Katzen was at the tech giant headquarters pushing her new cookbook, “The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation.” It’s her 12th book published in the 40…
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Culture How Jewish Museums Are Expanding Into the Digital Universe
Last year, the National Endowment for the Arts released some preliminary findings from its 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. The survey found that more than two-thirds of American adults accessed art via electronic media, including handheld mobile devices and the Internet. This information came as no surprise to the most widely known…
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Life Yona Zeldis McDonough on Second Time Intermarriage
In a Huffington Post piece from late October, author Yona Zeldis McDonough positions her latest, highly readable novel, “Two of a Kind,” as a reflection of the growing intermarriage rate between Jews and non-Jews as reported in the by now notorious Pew study. Certainly, we can take Zeldis McDonough’s story about Christina Connelly, a Christian…
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