Carol Leifer
How To Make Easy, Vegan Hanukkah Delights
Community | Hanukkah is coming. Are you prepared to make latkes, devour sufganiyot, and spin the dreidel? Here’s how to do so-vegan and cruelty-free.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Name Misspelled on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Walk Of Fame? How About Walk of Shame. Julia Louis-Dreyfus of “Seinfeld” fame received a high honor when she was bestowed with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday. Unfortunately a wrench was thrown into the celebratory day when, upon the star’s unveiling, it became apparent that Louis-Dreyfus’ name was misspelled. A careless terrazzo-star maker unwitting spelled “Louis” as “Luis”!
On Culture: Diamant's Friendship Narrative; Debating Sophie Tucker
• “Day After Night,” the new novel by Anita Diamant, author of “The Red Tent” and “The Last Days of Dogtown” as well as many nonfiction titles about Jewish life, concerns the friendship between four scarred young women — all survivors of the Holocaust, living in a postwar refugee camp in Palestine shortly before the 1948 war. If you happen to be in New York, Diamant will be reading at 7 p.m., Monday, September 14 at McNally Jackson Books in Soho. Here’s an early review of the novel from the Miami Herald.