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Yid.Dish: Sustainable Schav
Last January I interviewed my first cousin once-removed about his experience surviving the Holocaust as a child in a Siberian labor camp. At one point he mentioned a “sour leaf” that his family used to make a soup called schav. Soon after, while visiting the Culinary Institute of America in Sonoma, I surreptitiously pinched a…
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Obama Campaign Appoints Adviser To Coordinate Jewish Outreach
Washington — The Obama campaign is beefing up its Jewish outreach operation, adding a senior staff member to oversee ties with the Jewish community. Daniel Shapiro, who served as an outside advisor to the campaign on Middle East issues, formally joined the campaign as a full-time paid staffer this week and will be in charge…
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Rabbi Chosen To Give Invocation Before Obama’s Acceptance Speech
Washington — A leading Reform rabbi will deliver a prime-time invocation at the Democratic National Convention on the day of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Union for Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center in Washington, will give his invocation in front of an expected crowd of 70,000 at Invesco Field and…
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Yid.Dish: Apple Cider Challah
Yesterday, I made two loaves of challah. It felt like a funny activity for a Sunday, I’ll admit. (I usually make challah in a flurried rush on Friday afternoon.) But I’d had a culinary brain flash the other day, that I felt compelled to try out: apple cider challah. The idea was originally inspired by…
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Jewish Questions Arise in Beijing
Oh, who will light symbolic flames At China’s great Olympic games? Perhaps officials will employ A conflagrative Shabbos goy? Will mameloshn be among The languages of print and tongue? Yes, yenta is a Yiddish word, So “Ori-yent-ed” may be heard. (Or would the use of mameloshn Simply lead to more Confucian?) If garrulous, a winning…
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In Rubashkins’ Backyard, Another Tale of Labor Strife
At the farthest end of the Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market, just past Chow Trading Co. and Lancaster Quality Pork, an inconspicuous black-and-white sign marks the presence of a very conspicuous tenant. The building houses the local warehouse for Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meat producer in the country. Agriprocessors is best known for its slaughterhouse in…
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War in Georgia Muddles Efforts To Confront Iran
Washington — Escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the war in Georgia are raising concerns in Israel that broken relations with Moscow might jeopardize international efforts to block Iran’s nuclear program. Washington has threatened Moscow with diplomatic retaliation for its military operations on Georgian territory, and has hinted that it would push for…
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Judge Rules States Must Fund Religious Schools
A ruling by an influential federal judge could open the door for more government funding of religious education. In a unanimous decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, dated July 23, federal judge Michael McConnell ruled that the state of Colorado could not bar state scholarship funds from going to educational institutions that are…
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Georgia on Their Mind: Expats Forced To Juggle Dueling Identities
When U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner organized an emergency meeting for the Georgian community in New York, he didn’t hold it at a community center, church or school auditorium, but at an ornate synagogue on a residential block in Queens. Of the 5,000 or so Georgians who live in the New York area, at least 3,000…
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A New ‘90210’ Offers Truer Picture of Beverly Hills
Los Angeles — When the hit television series “Beverly Hills, 90210” premiered on the Fox network nearly two decades ago, many viewers pointed out that the show did not reflect the reality of Beverly Hills High School. The real Beverly Hills High is both predominantly Jewish and heavily Iranian. While the original cast included two…
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Kosher Fight Turns Rabbis on Each Other
The delicate relationship between Jewish ethics and Jewish ritual might seem like a topic for careful rabbinic disputation, but lately, the arguments coming out of the pulpit have sounded more like a bare-knuckled brawl. Over the past few weeks, the debate spurred by labor conditions at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse has reached a fevered…
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