THE VILNA VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK BY FANIA LEWANDO (1938) Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen With a Foreword by Joan Nathan and Translations from Yiddish and...
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Thanks for the Holy Seating Initiative
I would like to thank my Ultra-Orthodox Jewish brothers who insist on our G-d given right not to sit next to a woman on an airplane. I realize that causing two recent El Al flights from JFK to Tel...
Baltimore & Jerusalem protests Affect Perspectives on Parshah Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
The rioting and protests in Baltimore, as well as the protests in Jerusalem this week, are affecting sermons and thoughts related to this weekend’s Shabbat double parshah: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim...
Did Bruce Jenner Pick Shabbat Tazria-Metzora For Transition?
Last week, the number-one rated television show in the U.S. was ABC’s 20/20 interview with Bruce Jenner. It garnered a 5.2 rating among 18-49 year-olds, which in context, is nearly 300% more...
Passover TV: Mad Men Don Draper’s Seder
A lot of TV choices in North America as the third day of Pesaj began. You could watch four-plus hours of The Ten Commandments on ABC, or the premiere of the final season of Mad Men on AMC. Or mash it...
Newbits: Will Chief Rabbi Validate Parking But Not Conversions; Vogue’s Trump Shabbat, and a Jew-nicorn
A Member of the Knesset, Elazar Stern, who identifies as an observant Orthodox Israeli Jew and is a member of the Yesh Atid party, called on Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi – Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef...
Did a Minyan Ruin the NYC Blizzard?
The century old NYC subway, which was built to withstand a blizzard, was closed down on Monday night by the governor of New York. Non-Emergency vehicles were banned from New York roads in several...
3 Reasons BuzzFeed Profits From JewFace
Is it just me? Or do other people notice that when media outlets need to raise cash, they promote something to appeal to Jewish viewers or get all JewFace. U.S. Public TV stations? Notice how they...