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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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Tel Aviv Mayor Wants Illegal Immigrants To Feel at Home — Diplomats, Not So Much
He’s the budget-conscious, business-friendly mayor of his country’s most cosmopolitan city. Amid a building boom that has transformed the city’s skyline, critics accuse him of abetting gentrification and pricing out lower-income residents. Meanwhile, at a time when concern over illegal immigrants is playing out in a big way on the national political stage, he has…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Richard Goldstone’s About Face; Ford Foundation Leaves Israel
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with assistant managing editor Larry Cohler-Esses and staff writers Gal Beckerman and Nathan Guttman about what motivated Richard Goldstone to declare in a Washington Post opinion piece that he no longer believed that Israel had a policy of targeting Palestinian civilians during its 2008-2009 military incursion into…
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Top Pinto Aide Tied to Porn Sales and Legal Troubles
In early 2005, porn producer and actor Ashley Gasper realized that someone was bootlegging his films. Counterfeit copies of “Jules Jordan’s Flesh Hunter 6” and “Jules Jordan: Feeding Frenzy 2,” among other titles, were showing up among the DVDs being returned to his distributor. According to a recent decision issued by the U.S. Court of…
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Did a Private Meeting Prompt Goldstone To Change His Mind?
When Richard Goldstone returned home to South Africa last May for his grandson’s bar mitzvah — an event that he was almost unable to paticipate in because of protests planned against him — he also attended a separate meeting whose details were kept secret until now. In the wake of Goldstone’s bombshell retraction of a…
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Ford Foundation, Big Funder of Israeli NGOs, Pulling Out
After being a target for political attacks during the past year, progressive nongovernmental organizations in Israel are now bracing for another hit: the loss of one of their largest donors. The Ford Foundation, which has provided $40 million to civil society NGOs in Israel since 2003, will not resume its funding for programs in Israel…
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Israelis Argue on Behalf Of U.S. Detainee Rights
The contending sides in Zia-ur-Rahman’s detention case are hardly a surprise. On Rahman’s behalf, the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the 27-year-old Afghan’s indefinite detention by American authorities — without right to counsel or judicial review — at Bagram airfield, outside Kabul, violates his right to due process. On the other side, the Pentagon,…
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