My mother had a green thumb. Too bad she employed it in the kitchen, not the garden. To her credit, she was such a good housekeeper, you could have eaten off her floors. Which, unfortunately, was preferable to eating off her plates.
The man who introduced \”method acting\” to America and taught the likes of Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, John Garfield, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro and hundreds of other luminaries, was born Israel Lee Strassberg in the Polish part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Moriah Films division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center scoured two dozen film archives across the world, and an equal number of photo archives, to create a dense pictorial narrative of the tumultuous 20 years, starting with the United Nations partition vote in 1947 to the stunning Six-Day War victory in 1967.
Now I understood why Reuven was able to bring me into the neighborhood, into his home, into his shul, invite people to meet me, and then into his yeshiva. No one would question the actions of an ilui. I further understood his ability to teach me, to move so adroitly into the issues of my world and professional endeavors while we were in London.
My relationship with Reuven has continued to grow through further visits, meals with my wife and his wife, and through study. He has brought me as his study partner into all the great yeshivas of Jerusalem. He wants me to see them all.
It\’s not a stretch to call Woodland Hills-based author Faye Levy\’s 625-page \”1,000 Jewish Recipes\” a culinary bible. It may be the only Jewish cookbook you\’ll ever need.
The latest movie from British writer-director Guy Ritchie – known both for his film \”Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels\” and for being the father of Madonna\’s newborn son, Rocco – \”Snatch\” is the story of the aftermath of that heist.
Andrew asked me for advice but soon regretted it, because my prescription for happiness was a bitter pill.
The MPTF was founded in 1921 by Hollywood pioneers Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and others as a service organization for industry employees, retirees and their dependents.
More than any parsha I know, this one portrays the cycle of generations and relations between different groups in a positive, life-affirming manner.
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