Mac Miller, born Malcolm James McCormick, died too soon. His life was notable not just for his massive popular and critical success, but also for his habit of living with curiousity, introspection, and generosity. The beloved rapper and producer, who celebrated his Judaism in all that he did, died on September 7. Cause of death…
An activist who believed Israel isn’t the one and true homeland of all Jews, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, died of Parkinson’s disease at 72, The NewYork Times reported. “She was living and breathing the dynamic movements of her time,” said her long time partner Leslie Cagan. The civil rights movement started Kaye/Kantrowitzbegan’ social activism. Mobilizing in the…
Nova Scotia lox and egg scramble. A toasted poppyseed bagel. A pot of black coffee and a glass of orange juice. The staff at Barney Greengrass, a historic Jewish deli on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, honored chef Anthony Bourdain by serving his regular breakfast order today, at an empty table with a single chair. Bourdain…
Anthony Bourdain died Friday morning at 61. He was one of the world’s best known chefs, a monster presence in the culinary world who built a cult of personality by approaching food and eating with sensuous gusto. He was defined by the sharpness of his intellect and the insatiability of his curiosity. More than anything,…
Elias Friedman married late in life, especially for an Orthodox Jew. At 47, he married Rivka, and less than a year later, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Just four days after the birth of his beloved child, while he was soothing her at 2:30 a.m. in the dark, he collapsed, and died…
(JTA) — Filmmaker Milos Forman, famous for the Academy Award-winning films “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeaus,” has died. Forman, who was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States at the end of the 1960s, died on Saturday at a hospital near his home in Connecticut at the age of 86….
Just over half of all adults in the United Kingdom pray, even those who say they’re not religious, a new poll shows. One in five adults who say they’re not religious still pray — and half of those say they think God hears their prayers. A poll done by Christian aid agency, Tearfund, found that…
I am not a Jew who prays three times a day, in the morning, afternoon and evening as proscribed by Jewish law. Not like my wife’s four religious cousins who live with their large families in Israel. Not even like my Modern Orthodox brother in Jerusalem, who often dons a baseball cap and finds time…
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