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Food Nouveau Middle East Food Goes West
Kramer and her business partner ate at Haj Kalil, an Arab restaurant in Jaffa, Israel. / Photo courtesy of Sara Kramer Sara Kramer is not the first busy New Yorker to feel the alluring pull of the West Coast. But she might be the first heading there with Turkish Urfa pepper and za’atar, Middle Eastern…
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News I Smuggled a Shul From Sweden to Israel
I had never harbored any ambitions of becoming an international smuggler until one cloud-free summer evening in 1991. I grew up in Sweden, became religious in my teens and immigrated to Israel in 1978. I was living in Ra’anana and working as an engineer at Motorola Israel when Jakob, a new immigrant from Sweden, came…
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Israel News ‘Righteous’ Medal Returned, But Drama of Saved Family Continues
When 91-year-old Henk Zanoli protested Israel’s war in Gaza by returning the medal he’d received from the state for rescuing a Jew from the Nazis, even many of Israel’s supporters voiced some understanding: The Jewish state’s controversial bombing had just killed six Palestinian members of Zanoli’s own extended family who lived in the now devastated…
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Fast Forward New York Woman Admits to Scamming More Than $180K from Jewish National Fund
A suburban New York woman admitted to stealing another person’s identity in order to scam more than $180,000 from the Jewish National Fund. Marie Augustin, 42, of Westbury, Long Island, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Nassau County Court to third-degree larceny and first-degree identity theft, the The Associated Press reported. Prosecutors said Augustin used a fake…
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Fast Forward Hamas Military Wing Claims Responsibility for Kidnap-Murder of 3 Israeli Teens
A senior Hamas official has claimed that the organization’s military wing was behind the kidnapping of the three Israeli boys who were found dead in June, according to Hebrew-language reports in the Israeli media. A video captured during a conference organized by the World Association of Muslim Scholars in Turkey, and aired on Israeli television…
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The Schmooze #IceBucketChallenge Goes Sabra — With Hummus
Wikimedia Commons (JTA) — Over the past month, a viral sensation has flooded the Internet: the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, in which people post on social media videos of themselves dumping buckets of ice water over their heads to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative disease colloquially known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The challenge…
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Life Fighting the Israeli Macho: A Gchat with Elana Sztokman
Copyright Ingrid Muller Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman, the former executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, is a leading writer and thinker on topics of feminism, Judaism, Israel and orthodoxy. Her first book, The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Council Award in the area…
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The Schmooze Nazi-Themed Spaghetti? Why Not.
How about a side of Hitler with your pasta? Taiwan restaurant owner Tsao Ya-sin caused quite an uproar when she unveiled her latest Italian special: “Long Live Nazi Spaghetti.” Why the Third Reich theme? Tsao explains that the dish has German sausage in it. Tsao was also quoted as saying that she just “wanted to…
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