About three months after she and her family made aliyah, Laura Savren walked up to the meat counter of her local supermarket and asked to order a whole turkey.
Picture the typical Thanksgiving table: Family and friends are gathered around a big fat turkey, bowls of stuffing, cranberry relish, yams and marshmallows, garlic roasted potatoes and string beans almondine.
When it’s time to talk turkey, what do Jews have to say?
A sign objecting to the evacuation of West Bank settlements was found at an Israeli army base, a violation of army protocol.
Palestinians have been asked to boycott large supermarket chains in the West Bank that sell fruit and vegetables grown in Israeli settlements.
Covering the development of Jewish life in Europe in the 20 years since the fall of communism, I have witnessed many landmark moments.
Poet and translator David Rosenberg is best known for “The Book of J,” a best-seller that features the commentary of literary scholar Harold Bloom and Rosenberg’s fresh and felicitous translation of the portions of the biblical text attributed to the author who is known to Bible scholars by the letter-code “J.” I fear, however, that Rosenberg’s achievement as a Bible translator may have been unfairly overshadowed by Bloom’s intentionally provocative argument that J was, in fact, a woman.
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