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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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Food Network’s Flourless Walnut Date Cake
For the Cake: Cooking spray 3 cups walnut halves 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 cup sugar 4 large eggs, separated 2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional) Pinch of kosher salt 3/4 cup chopped pitted dates For the Glaze: 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped 4 tablespoons unsalted margarine (for meat meal)…
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Michelle Obama, Natalie Portman at Center of Mommy Debate
Before my daughter was born, I didn’t tell a number of my editors that I was pregnant. It was an accident-on-purpose slight of omission, and started because I work remotely so much of the time and barely ever see them. It continued because one of my (male) editors had assured me that, like his wife,…
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A Grave Marker Unveiled for Six Triangle Fire Victims Who Had Been Unknowns
A grave marker inscribed with the names of the six victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire who were only recently identified was unveiled April 5 in Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn. The six were buried as unknowns 100 years ago, and later a large monument was dedicated to them at the cemetery. The new stone…
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