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Opinion GOP Jewish Coalition Rips Ron Paul as Anti-Israel. You Don’t Know the Half of It.
Our friends at the Republican Jewish Coalition have issued a strong statement criticizing Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and newly announced contender for the GOP presidential nomination. Paul is scored for espousing “a dangerous isolationist vision for the U.S. and our role in the world” and for having been “a virulent and harsh critic of…
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Books Turkish Coffee for the Crown Prince
Earlier this week, Reyna Simnegar, the author of “Persian Food from the Non-persian Bride: And Other Sephardic Kosher Recipes You Will Love,” wrote about Miss Venezela Material and Sephardim Strike Back! Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog…
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Food Queen Esther’s Cuisine: A New Persian Cookbook
Of the many unusual ingredients in Persian cuisine, rose water, which tastes like flower petals, may be the most exotic. Persians, according to Reyna Simnegar, the Jewish, Venezuelan-born author of the new cookbook “Persian Food From the Non-Persian Bride, and other Kosher Sephardic Recipes You will Love!,” consume rose water in order to carry on…
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The Schmooze Holocaust Documentary To Show in Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be a vile Holocaust denier, but that won’t stop some of his countrymen from learning about the genocide in their own language. The Aladdin Project, a Paris-based organization devoted to co-existence and education, has announced that the landmark Holocaust documentary “Shoah” will be beamed into Iran next Monday via satellite. The film…
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News A New Move to Sever U.S. Business From Iran
Even in times of bitter partisan bickering, there is one issue that easily gets bipartisan support: the Iranian nuclear threat. Two Republicans and two Democrats joined forces today to introduce a new piece of legislation meant to keep the pressure on the regime in Tehran. The Iran Transparency and Accountability Act is co-sponsored in the…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Palestinian National Orchestra Debuts; Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Kaddish’ at 50
An exhibit at the Israel Museum celebrates German Jewish painter Jakob Steinhardt. The Arty Semite contributor Menachem Wecker looks at a 1979 caricature of Henry Kissinger that was cut from the New York Times. Which Yiddish books would you like to see translated? The Palestinian National Orchestra has its debut. Eilat celebrates the 10th annual…
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Opinion Wikileaks Back Israel’s Iran Claims. Sunni Arabs Share the Fear. So Why Don’t They Work Together? Well…
A news analysis by Yaakov Katz in today’s Jerusalem Post makes the very sensible point that the Wikileaks super-dump evidently vindicates Israel’s arguments that the Iranian nuclear project is everybody’s problem, not just Israel’s. Progressives and isolationists have been claiming more or less since the Iraq invasion in 2003 that the constant brouhaha over an…
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Food Honoring Family Traditions: A Persian Rosh Hashanah Feast
This year the final iftar, or breakfast for Muslims who celebrate Ramadan, falls on the evening of the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Iftar culinary traditions vary widely, much like those for Rosh Hashanah, depending upon the community where it is celebrated and the local foods. Louisa Shafia, author of “Lucid Food: Cooking for an…
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