admin | October 2, 2021
Actress Sarah Podemski sees much kinship between indigenous communities and the Jewish people, particularly when it comes to humor. She would know, after all: she was born in Canada to an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) mother, and raised by an Israeli-Jewish father. These days, shes a recurring character on the hit Hulu series, Reservation Dogs.
admin | September 27, 2021
Before you take your next bite of some delicious chocolate, you may want to check out a new book by British autor Michael Leventhal, that explores the history of chocolate in Jewish food and culture. In his book, the author of The Chocolate King, which won a PJ Library Author Incentive Award, creates a unique recipe book, bringing together individual recipes from more than fifty noted Jewish bakers. If youre a chocoholic, or know one, this book of chocolate-based recipes, or those with an interest in the diverse ways that chocolate is used around the world, this book is for you
admin | September 27, 2021
The quarrel In 1952, the New York-based Yiddish monthly Yidisher Kemfer (The Jewish Militant) published the first prose work by then-noted Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor Chaim Grade (pronounced Grahdeh) titled My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner. It tells the short stoy of an ex-yeshiva bochur, Chaim Vilner, loosely representing the author himself, who has a three-part argument with a friend of his from yeshiva, Hersh Rasseyner, at three points in time: 1937, 1939, and 1948.
admin | September 27, 2021
Over 100 Arabs and Jews gathered Monday at the home of Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi to put religious coexistence on display on the final day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot. The gathering was attended by former U.S.
admin | September 27, 2021
Some Jewish-owned eateries are opening up shop at San Francisco International Airport. Amys Kitchen, the Petaluma restaurant that grew out of its frozen entre line, started by Andy and Rachel Berliner, has opened in Terminal 1.
admin | September 27, 2021
JNS.org The descendants of two Holocaust survivors and the farmer who hid them from the Nazis in Poland have connected with the help of a recently discovered post-World War II letter. Karolina Jurzyk, 35, said that in 1942, her great-grandfather, Stanislaw Jurzyk Sr., and his wife hid two orphaned sisters, both in their 20s, at their family farm east of Warsaw during the war.
admin | September 27, 2021
As Hadassah Greater Detroit makes accommodations for the Judi Schram Annual Meeting for those attending in person or virtually there will be a lot of inspiration. Much of it will come from the guest speaker, film and TV actress Marlee Matlin, known for developing an award-winning career and maintaining strong relationships as a wife and mother all while moving beyond the deaf community and leading others to advance along with her. Matlins topic, to be expressed Tuesday, Oct
admin | September 27, 2021
Abortion is a Jewish value, and the US House of Representatives' vote to pass the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA) is a crucial step in protecting abortion rights across the US, National Council of Jewish Women CEO Sheila Katz said on Friday.
admin | September 27, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) Two suspects in an attack on Jewish men outside a Los Angeles restaurant last spring were charged Tuesday with a hate crime, prosecutors said. The suspects were part of a pro-Palestinian caravan that stopped near Sushi Fumi on the citys west side where diners were eating at outdoor tables on May 18, police said. Witnesses told news media that people in the caravan threw bottles and chanted death to Jews and free Palestine, and men got out of the vehicles and began asking who was Jewish.
admin | September 27, 2021
As he lists the names of his many grandchildren, Joop van Ooijen recites what sounds like a roll call at a typical Israeli classroom. Yair, Yael, Lael, Odelia, Netanya, Yoaz and Shilon are some of his grandkids with modern names, favored by the Israeli middle class. Baruch, Moshe, Elisheva and Yehuda are among the classics, popular with religious Jewish parents all over the world
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