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Food
Do Day School Health Programs Make the Grade?
Twenty parents from the Emek Hebrew Academy in Valley Village have come on a chilly winter evening to hear Dr. Francine Kaufman, a national expert on diabetes and childhood obesity, talk about promoting children\’s health. Although the school has 455 families, Rabbi Sholom Strajcher, the school\’s dean, is not discouraged by the modest turnout.
Cozy Kosher Surf Shack: An Observant Oasis in the ‘Bu
Joyce Brooks Bogartz\’s look isn\’t quite what you\’d expect from the owner of a kosher restaurant. Adorned with brown-and-cream dreadlocks, the nearly 50-year-old proprietor of Malibu Beach Grill would at first glance seem to fit in better with customers sporting board shorts than black hats. But this post-punk Gidget is the kind of \’Bu Jew who is as comfortable around Chabadniks as she is with surfers.
Unnecessary Hunger in Southern California
Statistics show that while hunger and food insecurity are on the rise, so is our ability to deal with the problem. Through a combination of emergency feeding agencies (like the Foodbank) and impactful government programs (like food stamps and reduced-price school breakfasts), we have the capacity to end hunger for good.
But Is It Kosher?
It surprised me that a company well-known for its concern for animal well-being and food safety would deem anything kosher treif, or unfit. Long before Whole Foods was even a glimmer in the eye of the Prius-tocracy, hadn\’t we Jews been telling ourselves and others that we were practicing humane slaughter and thoughtful animal husbandry — embodied in the very laws of kashrut? What did Whole Foods know that I didn\’t?
A Man for All Seasonings
Like many baby-boomers today, I sometimes feel older than Keith Richards up a palm tree. So when Irv and Eddie, my better elders, invite me to go out with them, I tag along, if only to combat creepy self-pity.
Not a Minute’s Rest for Min the Dynamo
Minerva \”Min\” Leonard doesn\’t have time for breakfast. She\’s too busy shopping for ingredients and preparing a salad bar luncheon for 80 people at Adat Ari El Sisterhood\’s weekly Multi-Interest Day. Or making 10 lokshen kugels for her friend\’s daughter\’s bat mitzvah. Or baking \”I can\’t even begin to tell you how many\” batches of cranberry and chocolate-chip mandelbread to bestow on friends, neighbors and an appreciative Jewish Journal reporter.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah – Author-Baker Rises to Bimah — at Last
Joanne Rocklin is obsessed with food. On her 60th birthday, she began summarizing her life with the essentials: \”I love to cook. I love to eat\”. But it\’s her passion for writing that has enabled her to come to terms with her life and her faith.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah – B’nai Mitzvah Menu Dishes Up Bonuses
With the flurry that surrounds a b\’nai mitzvah celebration, we often lose sight that this day — this passage from childhood to adulthood — will be one of the most meaningful memories of his or her life.
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