You can write a decent Jewish cookbook by collecting the recipes of decent Jewish cooks, or you can write a truly fine Jewish cookbook by compiling the recipes of fine cooks who happen to be Jewish. Make sense? It will when you consider two of the newest entries to the Jewish cooking market.
A yeshiva outgrew its downtown quarters and moved to the former site of an upstate boys\’ academy. Finding a boathouse on the property, the Rosh Yeshiva called in one of the rabbis and ordered him to organize a rowing team.
\”Don\’t you want to play with the other little girls?\” my grandmother asked me one summer, while the two of us sat on a park bench near a pack of screaming children.
I buried my head deeper into my book.
To the general Israeli public, the \”Lerner Affair\” reveals the frightening tentacles of the Russian mafia in Israel, and the danger it poses to this country\’s economic and political system. To many in the Russian immigrant community, however, the Lerner Affair is a case of harassment — a high-profile attempt by the established Israeli \”elite\” to cast all Russian immigrants as criminals.
The Holocaust has been the professional focus of Dr. Michael Berenbaum\’s life for 30 of his 51 years — as student, teacher, scholar, author, journalist and administrator.
Few, other than historians of the period, will recognize July 12 as a date of any significance in the annals of European anti-Semitism.
As the decades pass, why does the Holocaust retain, and even expand, its grip on the consciousness of the world and of its scholars, writers and filmmakers?
The Jewish newspaper scene in Los Angeles was recently enlivened by the rise and fall of the short-lived \”Jewish Voice,\” and it is being invigorated again by the significant changes taking place in the local Hebrew-language press.
Many modern forms of anti-Semitism, not least the Dreyfus Affair, can be seen as a reaction to the emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe following the French Revolution, according to Dr. Michael Berenbaum.
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