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Getting Back to Their Roots
Chef Eyal Shani’s theatrics are his signature at his three Tel Aviv restaurants. He has been known to serve food on pieces of cardboard, instead of plates, and without silverware. His menus are lyrical descriptions of his food, with dishes like top-end shwarma meat marinated in local grape juice and drizzled with tangy tahini, or…
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A Jewish Farmer Grows in America
The first time I met an American Jewish farmer was at a falafel joint near the Yeshiva University campus in Manhattan in 2008. We were both killing time before the start of a panel discussion on ethics and kosher food by…well…eating. He was an Ivy League grad, several years younger than I, and at the…
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Obama’s Jewish Team Has 2012 Plan
For the past three months, a group of President Obama’s Jewish supporters has been getting together for a weekly conference call to discuss strategy. The group, includes, among others, former White House adviser David Axelrod, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Congress members Robert Wexler and Mel Levine, Chicago Jewish activist and attorney…
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Bring On the Brisket, Boys
At the center of the Shabbat table, indifferent to the discord and dismay passing above and around it, sits a brisket. In its tepid bath of brown broth, intoxicated with Lipton Onion Soup Mix, shvitzing deckle fat into its ancient Corelle casserole pan, it sits, an unmoved mover, oblivious. And why shouldn’t it? Jewish dining,…
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Most Israeli Jews Back Civil Marriages
Some 62 percent of Jewish Israelis believe that civil and non-Orthodox marriages should be recognized in their country, a new survey has found. The Israel Religion and State Index 2011 conducted for the Hiddush – Freedom of Religion in Israel, Inc. organization, also found that 61 percent of the Jewish public supports equal recognition of…
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Jewish Photographer’s Work Debuts at Islamic Center Near Ground Zero
On a wet afternoon in Lower Manhattan, an elderly man in a rain-drenched tweed coat strolled into the photo gallery at America’s most famous Islamic cultural center — dubbed the “Ground Zero Mosque” by its critics — and perused the portraits of New York children from 169 of the world’s 193 countries. “When you are…
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Wall Street Protest Can’t Match Israeli Tent Cities, For Now
It was one day after New York City police arrested scores of left-wing demonstrators during a march on Manhattan’s Union Square, and the ranks were dwindling at the protesters’ downtown encampment. A member of the group offered a weather forecast extending to the end of the week — not a minor consideration for the activists,…
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How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark
Examining the grants program provides a window into Jewish organizational and political power. It is this power that allowed a small community to create and maintain a government program tailored specifically for its needs and catering almost exclusively to its members
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Yid Lit: Anna Solomon
Jewish mail-order bride. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? And for that matter, Jewish pioneer does too. But they existed. And they inspired Anna Solomon to write her debut novel, “The Little Bride” (Riverhead). She researched Jewish pioneers settling land in the American heartland and the Great Plains in the late 1800s. Enter 16-year-old Minna Losk,…
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Celebrating High Holy Days in Afghanistan
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein will lead Yom Kippur services this year dressed not in the black fedora of his Lubavitch Hasidic sect, but in full battle gear at a Combat Operating Base in eastern Afghanistan. And Rabbi Laurence Bazer won’t be delivering the sermon at Temple Beth Sholom, his Conservative synagogue in Framingham, Mass. Instead, he’ll…
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ICRF Makes a Fashion Statement as It Honors Three Women of Action
“I am not sure how many people are thrilled to get out of bed while it is still dark and go to work,” Deborah Axelrod said at the Israel Cancer Research Fund’s Women of Action Evening, held September 13 at the American Museum of Natural History. Axelrod, one of the evening’s three honorees, is director…
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