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Sidney Lumet, 86, Prolific Director of Gritty, Realist Films That Captured the City
APPRECIATION Just after Sidney Lumet passed away, I received numerous e-mails from film students who fondly recalled his visits with them at Columbia University. A few remembered the emotional wallop of seeing “The Pawnbroker” for the first time, in my American film history course. Others praised Lumet’s humility and candor after a preview of “Night…
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All Bottled Up
It’s a constant worry to most environmentalists. A plastic bottle discarded today is likely to be intact in a landfill hundreds of years from now. But for Haifa-based industrial designer Hadas Itzcovitch, the durability of those bottles has a silver lining. Itzcovitch, 30, is pioneering the bottles’ use in long-lasting and weatherproof outdoor art, and…
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Beyond Bal Tashchit
As we make plans to celebrate Earth Day 2011, we worry about radiation from a crippled nuclear plant in Japan. We face air pollution, species extinction, climate change. Major fish stocks are down 90%. And, more parochially, the Jewish community faces extraordinary stress and uncertainty. The federation system and many of our synagogues have lost…
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Washington JCC Resolves Arts Impasse
Facing tensions that have erupted over community funded artistic expression relating to Israel, the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is carving out a middle road that it hopes will please all sides. Despite being urged by some community members to stop funding plays critical of Israel in the local Jewish Community Center, the federation’s board…
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Palestinian Economy Wins Plaudits, But Statehood Still Distant Without Israel’s Cooperation
Updated: April, 18, 2011, 1:28 p.m. WASHINGTON — It is a classic good news-bad news story. The Palestinian economy is booming and for the first time is being acknowledged as strong enough to support an independent state. That is the good part. The negative side of this news, which comes from the April 13 meeting…
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A Dwindling Community’s Fight To Survive
When the Belfast Hebrew Congregation commissioned its new synagogue in 1964, it chose a circular building held up by concrete beams marked out in the shape of a Star of David. Tall, narrow windows and triangular peepholes allowed shafts of lights to penetrate the space. Today, a thin wall cuts across the center of the…
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Church Leaders Showing Rifts Over Vatican’s Pius XII Papers
Updated, April 20, 2011 Catholic Church leaders appear to be at loggerheads over expediting scholarly access to the Vatican’s Holocaust-era archives in fulfillment of a promise first made to Jewish leaders 24 years ago. The internal church tensions have manifested themselves in conflicting messages that different church leaders have recently given Jews in discussions of…
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Sandy Gertler’s Mandel Bread
2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup butter (or margarine for pareve) 6 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 3/4 cups matzo cake meal 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup potato starch 1 cup mini chocolate chips 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 tablespoon cinnamon combined with 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter…
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Bill Telepan’s Dark Chocolate Almond Cake
ABC US News | ABC Business News Serves 8 2 ¼ cups almond flour 1/3 cups + 1 heaping tablespoon cocoa powder 5 large egg whites 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons margarine or butter 1 ½ cups dark chocolate chips 1) Spray ring molds or aluminum cups well and dip in sugar. Shake off excess….
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Warm Runny Chocolate Soufflés
Dairy or parve Makes 8 servings Nonstick cooking spray 4 ounces good-quality semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate 1⁄2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter or margarine 4 large eggs 11⁄2 cups sugar, plus more for coating ramekins 3⁄4 cup matzo cake meal 2 tablespoons potato starch 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1) Preheat oven to 450˚F. Generously coat…
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Susie Fishbein’s Chocolate and Pineapple Truffles
Dairy or Parve Makes 30-36 truffles 12 ounces good-quality semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate 2⁄3 cup heavy cream or nondairy whipping cream 2 tablespoons Dutch processed cocoa powder 2 tablespoons confectioner’s sugar 3 tablespoons finely chopped unsalted pistachios, almonds, or hazelnuts 1) Finely chop the chocolate by hand or in a food processor fitted with a…
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