I love cookbooks, but on lazy summer days, I usually read fiction — few cookbooks are engaging enough to replace a good novel. And when I go into the kitchen at all, it\’s usually just to stand in front of the open freezer. But when I do find a cookbook that captures me, cooking with it is just a plus.
Among Jews, the subject of black-Jewish relations inevitably brings to the surface two impassioned, if not unrelated sentiments: a liberal nostalgia for the integrated social activism of days gone by and an embittered cataloguing of the latest anti-Semitic soundbites to come out of the mouths of black leaders.
Hannah Hoch\’s first major U.S. retrospective has arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; it\’s been a long time coming.\n
About the time one is tempted to feel a wee bit sorry for the Swiss over the barrage of flak they\’re now getting, along comes a new probe of the country\’s conduct during World War II to set the blood boiling again.
Members of a small and select club were remembered and honored on Monday with the opening of the exhibit \”Visas for Life: The Righteous Diplomats\” at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
