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Culture
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Persian Food
My Iranian mother wanted me to cook recipes from the motherland. I wanted to be independent.
A Foxman’s bashert and a chance subway meeting
“Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, a Cuban-American who grew up in Orlando, Fla., didn’t know the Yiddish term for soul mate (bashert) when he bumped into Ariel Foxman on the uptown A train in March 2012.
Portland preschool pushes boundaries of Jewish outdoors education
Even on a cold, gray and rainy morning, the children from the Gan Shalom Collaborative School are outside, seated under a wood-framed shelter topped by corrugated plastic.
For a Jewish baseball purist, Cuba beckons
To the dismay of baseball fan Kit Krieger, future travels to Cuba will no longer include get-togethers with ex-Washington Senators pitcher Connie Marrero.
Arab countries ban release of ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
Several Arab countries banned the release of the film “Exodus: Gods and Kings.”
Sondheim’s Freudian ‘Woods’
The movie version of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway classic Into the Woods, which opened in theaters yesterday, is much more than several interwoven, fractured fairy tales. It’s a thicket of symbols and themes that draw directly on the ideas and Weltanschauung of Sigmund Freud.