admin | February 23, 2022
As a child, visits to my maternal grandfather and grandmother (of Italian and Polish heritage, respectively) involved eating a lot pasta and pierogi. Dessert, in turn, was sometimes cannoli and poppyseed roll, but often a platter of Stella DOro cookies assorted dainty corrugated rings and logs of buttery dough with almond undertones.
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admin | February 23, 2022
JTA When she was cast as Midge Maisels mother-in-law in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, veteran actress Caroline Aaron had no idea that a series about a very particular slice of mid-20th century Jewish life would strike a chord around the world.
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admin | February 23, 2022
By Marina Anderson Arias Hoyles voice is so smooth it could put you in a trance. Hoyle, whose stage name is Air Jazz, is a 20-year-old Afro-Indigenous musician from Juneau celebrated for his place-based rhymes.
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admin | February 23, 2022
Update: The Ohio Regional Braille Challenge scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 24 has been canceled as an extra precaution due to the COVID-19 omicron variant. COMEDY: Casey Frey, Funny Bone Comedy Club, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township.
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admin | February 11, 2022
Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Heres a selection of some happeningsfleeting or otherwisein the Buddhist world this week
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admin | February 3, 2022
Breadcrumb Trail Links Sure, titling your book People Love Dead Jews is going to get attention. It should
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admin | January 24, 2022
To the Editor: Re Captives Made Daring Escape From Gunman (front page, Jan. 18): Particularly as a member of the Jewish community, I thank God that the hostages taken at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday were able to get free.
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admin | January 22, 2022
When the composer Ricky Ian Gordon saw Stephen Sondheims Follies on Broadway in the early 1970s, it was unlike anything hed watched on a stage.
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admin | January 14, 2022
Lani Guinier, the daughter of a white Jewish mother and Black Panamanian father whose nomination by President Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice was opposed by mainstream Jewish organizations, died on Friday. Guinier, who went on to become the first Black woman on the Harvard Law School faculty as well as its first woman of color given a tenured post, succumbed to complications from Alzheimers disease, according to The Boston Globe
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admin | January 14, 2022
During the Jim Crow era, segregation drove Black children into poor quality schools. But about 100 years ago, a collaboration between two unusual partners built almost 5,000 schoolhouses specifically for Black children throughout the South. Named after one of the partners, Julius Rosenwald, one-third of the Souths rural black school children and teachers were served by Rosenwald Schools by 1928, according to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
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