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The War on Vegetables
Last November, I koshered my kitchen for the first time. I did so with the full understanding that my decision came with certain compromises, like giving up my favorite cheeses and my delicious but uncertified collection of vinegars. While a bit heartbreaking, these were sacrifices I was willing to make as I welcomed in my…
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Maimonidies And Menorahs
FRENCH CONSUL GENERAL LIGHTS L’ HANOUKA CANDLES AND QUOTES THE RAMBAM “I could pass for a Santa,” a jolly, white-bearded Rabbi Mikhael Cohen, of the Centre Communautaire Juif Francophone de New York, joshed as we chatted at the December 17 Hanukkah reception held at the French Consulate. With a yarmulke atop his head, France’s consul…
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Stranger in a Strange Season
My 5-year-old son, Jeremy, likes to watch cartoons on television each morning as he gets ready for school. This month, I noticed that most of the programs seemed to revolve around Christmas, and were particularly focused on presents. For example, on “Jungle Junction,” the blue Elephant, Elizam, was searching for a gift for his friend…
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A Very Salty (Yiddishe) Christmas
Christmas is the one time of year that I culinarily lament not being Catholic. It’s the holiday when Roman Catholics traditionally eat a feast of seven different types of fish — often each has its own course. While many Jews chow down on a feast of lo mein and spring rolls on Christmas, my family…
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Local Holocaust Museums Grow Amid Worries About Future
The numbers speak for themselves: There are now 16 Holocaust museums in the United States, from Albuquerque, N.M., to Houston, to Richmond, Va. And these are just the biggest of nearly 150 Holocaust centers all over the country. The proliferation of museums detailing the story of what happened to European Jewry during World War II…
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Advocate of Strict Conversions in Sexual Scandal
A key proponent of the successful campaign for stricter conversions in Israel and around the world has resigned from a senior post, and has not denied rumors of a conversion scandal of his own. Rabbi Leib Tropper, a founder of the hard-line conversion group Eternal Jewish Family (EJF), announced that he had stepped down as…
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Oren Asks for Inquiry on Wall Arrest
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren blamed his own government for giving him an “incomplete” report recently that led to his giving leaders of Conservative Judaism an inaccurate account of one of their members’ detention at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. The woman, Nofrat Frenkel, was detained last November after she wore a tallit and carried a Torah in…
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Rabbinical Student Heads Up the Fight For Gay Marriage in New Jersey
Steven Goldstein jokes that his office in suburban New Jersey is “like the Jewish Museum of Montclair.” A sage-looking rabbi peers down from a lithograph on one wall, and a print of Theodor Herzl hangs from another. There are a Hebrew movie poster and a mezuza. Goldstein, however, doesn’t work for a Jewish organization; he…
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Mosque Arson Victims Have Low Hopes
The recent arson attack on a Palestinian mosque brought international attention, and solidarity from unusual quarters, to this quiet West Bank farming community. But now that rabbinic visitors have dried up, and Israeli politicians are done condemning the incident, villagers fear that the crime will go unsolved, much like the crimes they say preceded the…
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Advocates for Elderly Succeed in Pushing for Nursing Home Insurance
Jewish advocates for the elderly breathed a sigh of relief as both the Senate and the House of Representatives included a provision for creating a voluntary long-term care health insurance program in their respective versions of health care reform legislation. The Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, known as the CLASS Act, has been…
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Contributing to Humanity
FOOD ALLERGY INITIATIVE HONORS RESTAURANTEUR EMERIL LAGASSE AND OFFERS HOPE TO THOSE FATALLY ALLERGIC TO PEANUTS New Orleans was the motif for the Food Allergy Initiative’s December 7 ball, at which that city’s culinary master, Emeril Lagasse, was presented with FAI’s Lifetime Achievement Award by Four Seasons owner Julian Niccolini, who declared: “Nobody in this…
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