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Green Rice
Makes 6 Cups 2 cups long-grain basmati rice Salt 1 teaspoon saffron threads or powder 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 leeks, green and white parts, finely diced 1 teaspoon dried lime powder, or 1 preserved whole lime 1 cup minced fresh flat-leaf parsley 1 cup minced fresh cilantro 1/3 cup minced fresh dill 1 cup…
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Fesenjan (Chicken in Pomegranate Walnut Sauce)
Serves 4 to 6 2 pounds skinless chicken legs or breasts, rinsed and patted dry 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 large or 2 small yellow onions, diced 2 beets, peeled, quartered, and sliced 1/4 inch thick 1 1/2 cups walnuts, pulsed in a food processor until coarsely ground 1 clove garlic, minced 1 teaspoon ground…
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Photographic Exposure in Israel
NEWS ITEM: A photographer who is famous for taking pictures of voluntarily nude crowds at sites around the world is planning to bring his shtick to Israel. He will stage the event on the shores of the Dead Sea, where naked masses are expected to attend. Some photo-takers get their kicks From snapping naughty nudist…
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Embryonic Stem Cell Ruling Fallout
An article in today’s Forward explains why Jewish groups are up in arms about a judge’s injunction to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The judge’s ruling interpreted the Dickey-Wicker amendment—a law that prohibits federal funding of research that harms or destroys human embryos—to include all research involving embryonic stem cells, which are obtained…
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The Forward’s Next Step Involves You
The Forward, one of the most beloved and distinguished institutions in American journalism, is moving beyond its traditional bounds of ink and paper to become a full-fledged citizen of the new digital world. Whether you and your family have been readers and fans of the Forward for generations or you just discovered us when a…
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For Many Jews, Stem-Cell Ruling Puts Progress at Risk
A wide spectrum of Jewish groups is voicing outrage against a judge’s surprise halting of federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research and are asserting a crucial Jewish stake in reversing the ruling. “Diseases prevalent in the Jewish community are waiting for cures,” said Sheila Decter, executive director of Boston’s Jewish Alliance for Law & Social…
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Piyutim, Poetry In Conservative’s New Prayer Book
How awesome is God? Not at all, not anymore, according to the new Conservative High Holy Day prayer book, Mahzor Lev Shalem, the movement’s first new prayer book since 1972. One of the changes made in this 460-page book is an update to archaic terms — such as “awesome,” a traditional translation of the Hebrew…
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Yid Lit: Rachel Shukert
In her new memoir, “Everything is Going to Be Great,” author and performer Rachel Shukert travels to Europe after college to “escape the weight of [her] own expectations,” which involves no small measure of drinking, gallivanting and sleeping with (non-American) boys. Amidst a ribald trek of self-discovery, Shukert skewers what she dubs a new paternalism…
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Are Direct Talks the Last Chance for Two-State Solution?
Officials from all sides are striving to keep expectations low for the new direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, a reflection of the disillusioned mood the parties bring to the table. But the instinct to minimize the significance of the upcoming talks masks what some see as a dramatic reality at this point in…
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Survey Says Young Jews Do Care About Israel
Peter Beinart’s essay in The New York Review of Books last spring painted a picture of young American Jews as alienated, increasingly disengaged from the Jewish state and what he called the “illiberal” policies of its current government, and “less willing to grant Israel an exemption because its survival seems in peril.” Beinart briefly backed…
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Kosher BBQ Lovers Try Not To Overcook the Brisket
“Kosher” and “barbecue” are two words that don’t normally fit together in one sentence, but the oldest Orthodox synagogue in Memphis has found a way to make it work by focusing on beef and beans. No pork permitted. On a Sunday in late August, the shul known as Anshei Sphard-Beth El Emeth (ASBEE) hosted its…
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