fbpx
Category

March 25, 2004

USC Honors Cell Phone Pioneer

As millions of people across the globe yak away on their cell phones, they can thank an Italian Jewish immigrant who laid the foundation for the ubiquitous device.

Delivery for Your Brain

Need an amazing challah recipe? Want a book on Jewish history for your child\’s report? How about a film for the next holiday? Well, now you can order in.

The Art of Religion

How did Israelite religion develop and evolve in its earliest years? What influences led to the centralization of power during the First Temple period? And how did changing perceptions of God fit into all of this?

Not the Next ‘Passion’

A widely circulated Internet report that Steven Spielberg was planning to produce a trilogy of films exposing Christian brutality has been denounced as a hoax and \”mean prank\” by the filmmaker\’s chief spokesman.

Your Letters

Letters to the Editor, Point of View in response to Articles.

Give Matzah a Hand

I still remember the first year we served shemurah matzah at our seder…. It was in the early 1960s and we were living on a ranch in Topanga Canyon.

Charoset to Please Any Palate

On the table at every Passover seder is a plate arranged with foods symbolic of the holiday. Of these, the only one that requires a recipe is charoset.

Behind Kitchen Door No. 1

Monty Hall spent 27 years making outrageous deals with anxious contestants on his TV game show, \”Let\’s Make a Deal.\” But the sweetest deal he ever made with his mishpachah was for a plate of pickled herring if they\’d join him for Passover seder.

More news and opinions than at a
Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.