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Yid.Dish: Strawberry Rhubarb Blintzes
Blintzes are most often described in relation to other foods. They are “like pancakes” but thinner, “like Russian blini” except without the yeast, or “like crepes,” just folded a little differently. Still, blintzes are a delicacy all their own. Originally from the Ukraine, fillings like cheese, potato, and kasha were folded inside the blintz wrappers…
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White House: Obama Will Not Unveil Peace Initiative in Cairo
The White House announced on Friday that U.S. President Barack Obama will not be presenting an American initiative for peace in the Middle East during his speech in Cairo on June 4, Israel Radio reported. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that Obama’s speech would address Washington’s relationship with Muslims worldwide. “This will be…
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Philip Glass’s American Life
“GLASS ON GLASS” — A COMPOSER PERFORMS AND MUSES ABOUT HIS WORK Listening to Philip Glass speak is akin to hearing his music — staccato and zigzagging in time. At the April 28 Glass on Glass gala at St. Ann’s Warehouse — a state-of-the-art theater space in Brooklyn’s waterfront DUMBO neighborhood —composer Glass was interviewed…
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Yid.Dish: Sweet Under the Tongue – Coffee Flan With Raspberry Sauce
When it comes to reasons for eating dairy on Shavuot, you have a variety to choose from. Here’s one that I like: on this day that commemorates receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, we remember that the text should lie “like honey and milk” under the tongue (according to the Song of Songs). Why focus…
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Orthodox Women To Be Trained As Clergy, If Not Yet as Rabbis
Plans for a new school to train Orthodox women as clergy are pushing the issue of the role of women in Orthodox Judaism to a new and untested frontier. Rabbi Avi Weiss, a leading advocate for a more liberal Orthodoxy, and Sara Hurwitz, a protégé of Weiss, are now taking inquiries and applications for Yeshivat…
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Escalating Tensions, Protesters Rile Agudath Israel Over Sex-Abuse Bill
Inside the grand ballroom of the Midtown Hilton in Manhattan, Agudath Israel of America’s annual dinner was unfolding according to plan. Men and women dressed in traditional yet elegant clothes dined on salmon and listened to Senator Charles Schumer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledge their fealty. Outside, a storm was brewing. A dozen protesters stood…
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Now Back in Public, Songwriting Legend Leonard Cohen Plays To a New Controversy
Buddhist monk, Jewish poet, famed philanderer and now the subject of political protest, Leonard Cohen performed at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on May 17. The elusive Canadian folk-rock legend, on his first major tour in 15 years, worked the capacity crowd of 6,000 fans who shouted out and sang along through three…
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Jewish Activists Part With Bibi On Settlements
Israel’s change of tone toward the Palestinian peace process under its new government has caught Jewish supporters in the United States off guard, leaving them to grapple with a policy shift that now stresses the need to limit future Palestinian sovereignty and avoids discussing a two-state solution. Following Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to…
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Menorah Illuminates Davis Jr.’s Judaism
If you want to buy Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah when goes up for auction next month, it will cost you a bit more than a song. The bidding will start at $10,000, and Brooklyn-based auctioneer Jonathan Greenstein says the silver menorah could fetch upward of $15,000. But even more than its monetary value, both as…
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Conservative Jews Decry Bias in IDF
When Gabrielle Pollack sought to say kaddish for her recently deceased grandmother, the young female soldier found that in the Israeli Army, it can be daunting to be a Conservative Jew. And the army, for its part, found it can be daunting to accommodate one as non-Orthodox Jewish movements increasingly jockey to break the Orthodox…
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Bibi Backers Push to Rebuild Settlements
It was not only Barack Obama who was bringing demands to bear upon Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Israeli prime minister heard the president press for progress on abandoning the settlements, right-wing activists back home were putting pressure on Netanyahu to do just the opposite. They want him to regress on the issue and turn back…
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