Roughly 20 years ago, Sudan, whose western Darfur region has been engulfed in genocide for four years, watched another other tragedy unfold — the deaths of thousands of Ethiopian Jews trying to escape to Israel via Operation Moses.
\”It\’s become cool to be Jewish,\” says comedian Eric Schwartz, a.k.a. Smooth E., before he quotes one of his own songs, \”Jewish is trendy, Jewish is fun, it took 2,000 years, but it finally caught on!\”
Marsha Marcus came running into the kitchen of their Northridge home. She saw her husband staring into the pot of oatmeal he was cooking on the stove. As she peered inside, she saw why her husband had summoned her.
When author Marge Piercy was a little girl, her grandmother set a special place at the Passover seder for Blackie, her grandmother\’s cat.
One might expect the chef-owner of a haute cuisine, award-winning French-American restaurant, where l\’addition can easily top $300 per couple, to be an egotist. One would be wrong.
What do you do when you can\’t stand another Jew? When their political views make you sick, or when you feel completely alienated from their lifestyle — whether because they are too religious, or too secular, or simply too unfamiliar?
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