Sarah Silverman’s dad Donald is in perfectly good health for an 81-year-old. So Silverman decided “to show you just how important it is to take your elderly parents, bring them on your television show, and make a plan for their death.” As Donald said, popping up next to his daughter during the season finale of…
The past year had been a really tough one for me. I experienced a frozen shoulder which lasted over six months, digestive symptoms only a GI doctor could listen to, multiple skin problems and — oh yeah — one of my front teeth suddenly came out unexpectedly while I was out of town. Also, I…
Like many families, I go into the Jewish holiday season with some sense of sorrow and regret. There is nothing sad about these holidays themselves — even Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and forgiveness is pervaded with a sense of hopefulness and expectation that God will forgive us and inscribe us in the “book…
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…
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