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Yid.Dish: Sourdough Focaccia
I’ve been working on a few bread projects lately: sourdough starter, and the no-knead focaccia-style bread recipe from the NY Times last year. Today, I completed a successful merger and the result? Only half a loaf left, after my parents & I were through with it at dinner. The no-knead recipe goes something like this:…
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‘Jews’ Parade on the Streets of Vilna
Vilnius, Lithuania – Last week, a samba group in Rio de Janeiro caused an international furor when it announced its intention to participate in the city’s Carnival event on a float depicting Holocaust victims. After outcries from the Brazilian Jewish community, a judge banned the group from using the float. Although less well known, a…
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Hollywood Writers’ Strike Produces Flood of Red Ink at L.A. Synagogues
Los Angeles – At Hanukkah time, one month into the Hollywood writer’s strike, Rabbi Sharon Brous, founding rabbi of IKAR, a spiritual community on Los Angeles’s West Side, sent out an e-mail to her congregants, expressing support for members of the Writers Guild of America. Her position was a no-brainer, in some respects. Brous, who…
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Top Spies To Be Called in Aipac Trial
Washington – In the upcoming trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists, the witness stand will likely alternate between top Bush administration officials called by the defense lawyers and top spy agency officials called by the prosecution. The government prosecutors have revealed their plans for witnesses in a number of recent filings in their case against…
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Voice of the Voters
Two-thirds of the nation’s Jewish votes were up for grabs on Super Tuesday. Exit polls showed that Jews turned out in disproportionately large numbers. Below, a glimpse into what was on the minds of some as they cast their ballots. Yoel Fried age: mid-20s Yeshiva student Lakewood, N.J. Barack Obama’s message of change has resonated…
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GELT COMPLEX: Carter Snubbed, Bush Budget Blasted, Hillel Under Fire, The Orthodox Divide
Carter Snubbed Two of America’s three living former presidents will co-chair a committee in charge of celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, but the third, Jimmy Carter, apparently was not invited to take part. Carter did not get an invitation to be on the National Committee for Israel 60, according to a Jewish communal leader involved in…
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Winograd Report Uncovers Diplomatic Breakdown
Washington – In the final days of Israel’s war against Hezbollah in 2006, a series of miscommunications between Jerusalem and Washington played a decisive role in shaping the war’s outcome, according to the final report of the Winograd Commission released last week. The government-appointed commission found that Israeli disappointment at the wording of an American-brokered…
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Gaza Tensions Mount After Suicide Bombing
The conflict in Gaza heated up again Tuesday in response to a suicide bombing in the Israeli town of Dimona on Monday. Israel killed nine Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip, while Palestinians fired heavy barrages of rockets at southern Israel that moderately wounded a 14-year-old girl and lightly wounded several other civilians. Tuesday’s rocket…
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South Africa and Australia Battle Over Jewish Immigration
Sydney, Australia – South African Jewish leaders are fuming over a new initiative to help Jews immigrate to Australia from Africa. The initiative in question is Project Sydney, a joint effort of the New South Wales Jewish Communal Appeal and the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies that would help South African Jews who…
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Thirty Years in Fashion
HATE-CRIME HERO HONORED BY FOUNDATION FOR ETHNIC UNDERSTANDING “There is no such thing as a ‘good book,’ when people get killed over the book…. We all have a good book — the Bible, the Quran, the Old/New Testament,” said Leon Charney, an honoree at the December 12, 2007, benefit for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding….
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Jews Follow Trend, Split Vote for Dems
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama each won a stamp of approval from Jewish voters Tuesday, as both Democratic presidential contenders captured significant Jewish support in key primary contests. While Clinton laid claim to the overwhelming backing of Jewish communities in New Jersey and in her home state of New York, Obama won the…
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