Sarah Breger is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog. Follow her on Twitter at @sbreger.
Sarah Breger
By Sarah Breger
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Life Weekend Roundup: All-of-a-Kind Family Edition
First for Orthodox Rabbinic group. In a sign of changing times, Dr. Michelle Friedman of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), has been invited to join the board of the Beth Din of America, the religious court of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). Friedman, founder and chair of the Department of Pastoral Counseling at YCT, a…
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Life New York’s First Female Crime Boss
The press called her a “Queen Among Thieves” and the person who “first put crime in America on a syndicated basis.” In 1884, The New York Times named her “the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime in New York City.” During the Gilded Age, Fredericka Mandelbaum, a German-Jewish immigrant, rose to power…
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Culture Comedy About Cancer? ’50/50′ Pulls It Off
I was initially hesitant to see “50/50,” the new Seth Rogen “cancer comedy.” Cancer movies always seem to go in one of two directions — heroism or epiphany. Either the main character’s illness causes a life-altering revelation (“Stepmom”), or a terminally ill character transforms the main character into a better person (“A Walk To Remember”)….
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Food Q & A, Part II: Gil Marks Discusses His New "Encyclopedia of Jewish Food"
Growing up in Richmond, Virginia, Gil Marks, author of the new “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food,” first developed the food bug when his mother told him that if he was going to keep complaining about her food so much, he should just make his own. So he did, experimenting with old and new recipes, which after…
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Food Q & A: Gil Marks Discusses His New "Encyclopedia of Jewish Food"
It’s hard not to be awed by the new “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food” by Gil Marks. With over 650 entries about almost every Jewish food imaginable and 300 recipes, the elaborate book spans the mundane (almonds, spinach) to the foreign (manti, a Bukharan Purim dumpling). Marks fills his reference guide with history, stories and interesting…
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Culture The Women of Israel’s Hit TV Show ‘Srugim’
“Srugim,” the hit television series tracing the love lives of modern Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, returned this past Sunday to the Israeli cable channel YES! The series — its name is derived from the knit yarmulkes favored by the dati le’umi or religious nationalist boys and men in Israel — has surprised even its creators…
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