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Brown Finds Warm (If Quiet) Welcome
Haifa, Israel — Barack Obama’s departure from Israel on July 24 marked the end of a summer visiting season during which the Israeli public displayed unusual enthusiasm for its political guests. Just over a month before the Illinois senator’s red-carpet visit, there was a frenzied reception for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his pop star…
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Yid.Dish: Heirloom Gazpacho
I am a little embarrassed to admit that The Jew & The Carrot went the entire summer last year without sharing a recipe for gazpacho. Of course gazpacho – a cold soup which has its roots in Southern Spain – does not obviously belong in the “Jewish food” category. Still, as Tamar rightly pointed out,…
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Amid Pessimism on Peace Prospects, Rice Meets Parties in Last-Ditch Push for Accord
Washington — As top Israeli, Palestinian and American negotiators prepared for a July 30 meeting in a last-ditch attempt to reach an agreement on the establishment of a Palestinian state by the end of the year, expectations of a breakthrough are decidedly low in their respective capitals. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former Palestinian…
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Bruce Adler, 63, Star of Broadway and Second Avenue
Bruce Adler, a two-time Tony-nominated actor who transitioned from the Yiddish theater to the Broadway stage, died Friday, July 25, in Davie, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale. He was 63. According to Moishe Rosenfeld, Adler’s booking agent, the song-and-dance man had been battling liver cancer for four years. Adler reached the height of his career with…
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Orthodox Leaders To Visit Controversial Slaughterhouse
Just days after a protest at the site of the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, a group of Orthodox rabbis and community leaders will be visiting the plant in Iowa on July 31. Agriprocessors, Inc., the country’s largest provider of kosher meat, is paying for a delegation of Orthodox rabbis and community leaders to visit the…
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Giraffe Milk Is Kosher
NEWS ITEM: An Israeli rabbi, an authority on kashrut, declared that giraffe milk is kosher. Said he: “The giraffe has all the signs of a ritually pure animal, and the milk that forms curds strengthened that.” The rabbi based his ruling on a recent finding by researchers at Bar Ilan University who had taken a…
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Spotlight On Folksbiene
LAUGHTER IN THE AISLES AT TOWN HALL’S FOLKSBIENE GALA With its curtain-raising musical opener, “Tzadiks and Nudniks, Shlemiels No Goodniks” — a takeoff on Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” — the June 17 National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene benefit at Town Hall was off and running. In keeping with the…
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Yid.Dish: Black Eyed Pea Salad
When I have people over for Shabbat dinner during the winter I always make some kind of kugel as a side dish. But in the summer, nobody wants a warm kugel, so I have to come up with a nice rotation of cold salads that don’t bore me to death. This one I got from…
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Obama Goes on Charm Offensive in Israel
Haifa, Israel — However it may affect American public opinion, Barack Obama’s midsummer Middle East campaign tour had a powerful impact on the nations he visited — though not in the ways that most observers anticipated. Israelis, many of whom viewed Obama with suspicion because of his rumored coolness toward the Jewish state, awoke Wednesday,…
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Neocons Lash Out at White House for Diplomatic Overtures to Iran
The Bush administration’s recent diplomatic overtures toward Iran have unleashed a torrent of criticism from neoconservatives and have fueled concerns in Israel that Washington is shelving the option of using military force against Tehran’s nuclear facilities. After months of rejecting the possibility of negotiating with Iran until it suspends nuclear enrichment, the administration sent a…
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Nazi-Hunter Claims Most-Wanted Prey Is Alive and Free in South America
After decades of false sightings, the Simon Wiesenthal Center claims it is closing in on Aribert Heim, a former physician nicknamed the “Butcher of Mauthausen” because of the torture experiments he conducted on Jewish prisoners at the concentration camp in Austria. According to Efraim Zuroff, director of the center’s office in Jerusalem, a recent visit…
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