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In Wake of Arrests, Sephardic Group Touts Voluntary Reforms for Charities
In response to the July corruption arrests that swept up a number of rabbis on money-laundering charges, the Sephardic Community Federation is launching a program aimed at making religious charities more accountable and transparent. The goals are lofty, and leaders of the effort say they’re being well received in the Syrian Jewish community that was…
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He Conquered the KKK — Now on to Flushing
As the new rabbi at the Free Synagogue of Flushing, Michael Weisser faces a formidable challenge: revitalizing a historic synagogue in a neighborhood that has gone from being heavily Jewish to being populated almost entirely by Chinese immigrants. Luckily for his new congregation, Weisser is no stranger to accomplishing the impossible. When he was a…
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30-Minute (Sabbath) Meals
The other night I had eggs for dinner. Two of them fried over easy, slipped onto a slice of toast and plopped next to some sautéed zucchini with garlic. My total cooking time clocked in somewhere around 12 minutes — about as much energy as I had on a muggy summer evening after a day…
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Revisiting the Kate We Wanted to Be
I don’t remember the first time I saw a Katharine Hepburn film, but I’m sure it was sometime back when I was in what used to be known as junior high school. One of the local New York television stations was airing a classic movie every afternoon for a week, and I rushed home from…
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Sex — Is It Good For The Jews?
NEWS ITEM: “The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism” — that’s the title of an anthology just published by New York University Press. It explores what the Torah has to say about sex. Provoking praise and some unease: A book about the birds and bees. What makes its publication news? It solely concentrates on Jews. This…
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Yid.dish: Squash Lasagna with Spicy Fresh Tomato Sauce
This has been the summer of the zucchini. With my Tuv Ha’aretz CSA deeply affected both by the Northeast tomato blight and the heavy early season rains, most of what we have gotten this summer has been some form of zucchini or summer squash. It’s light and delicious, but it has been hard to come…
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Yid.dish: Squash Lasagna with Spicy Fresh Tomato Sauce
This has been the summer of the zucchini. With my Tuv Ha’aretz CSA deeply affected both by the Northeast tomato blight and the heavy early season rains, most of what we have gotten this summer has been some form of zucchini or summer squash. It’s light and delicious, but it has been hard to come…
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100 Candles, Times Two
A TRIPLE CENTENNIAL ‘MAZEL TOV’ TO BLANCHE AND ROMIE SHAPIRO AND BEZALEL On July 23, Jerusalem’s mayor, Nir Barkat, presented Blanche and Romie Shapiro with an official proclamation upon the occasion of their 100th birthdays. With friends and admirers gathered at their Park Avenue apartment that is enhanced by electric art, the mayor spoke movingly…
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Charter School’s New Chief Touts Church-State Separation
Standing in the entryway to the building housing the Yeshiva Rambam School in southern Brooklyn, Maureen Campbell was every bit the New York City principal — tough, fast-talking and exceedingly patient. “Now this is very important. The Rambam Yeshiva will be that way,” she said, waving one arm toward a stairway leading to the second…
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A Jewish Mystic Offers Amulets and Predictions, for $180 A Pop
On a recent Monday afternoon in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, eight women and two men sat patiently in the back room of Neuman’s Optical, tapping their feet, chatting in Russian, reading psalms and occasionally letting out an aggravated sigh. Appropriately, a broken clock hung over the windowless waiting area, where some said they…
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Israel Poised To Pass National I.D. Database Law
Israel may become the only democratic country to take biometric information from all citizens and store it in a database. The plan, approved by a Knesset committee and set for a final vote in the fall, is expected to pass easily, as the largest opposition party and the government support the bill. But that apparently…
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