Seder Tips
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
April 1, 2004
Whether you\’ve been doing it for years or are brand new, leading a seder is a challenging job.
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celebrations
Vigil Points to Interfaith Inroads
Andrea Adelson
January 1, 2004
With Chanukah bracketed by major Christian and Muslim celebrations, last month might have been a propitious time to find common ground between the Abrahamic faiths.
Instead, a pair of incidents occurring within days of each other reveals the breadth of the cultural divide.
Prompted by recent car bombings of two synagogues in Turkey and a mosque in India, local leaders of Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths came together for a vigil on Dec. 7 to publicly condemn such acts of violence as \”nothing less than vicious murders.\”
Seek the Right Motivation for Fetes
Rabbi Avi Shafran
August 7, 2003
Meet Lorne Hughes, a young non-Jewish gentleman from the Virgin Islands clad in a form-fitting black outfit, who \”regularly spends his weekends dancing with 13-year-olds at bar mitzvahs,\” according to an article that appeared in The New York Times on May 30, 2003.
B’nai Mitzvah Bond With Israel
Keren Engelberg
June 12, 2003
Medical oncologist Dr. Daniel Lieber reached a breaking point two years ago. Israel\’s poor economic state had him so concerned that he began moonlighting as a volunteer for State of Israel Bonds Development Corporation for Israel (DCI), primarily trying to induce doctors to invest their pension money.
The Value of a Day
Eric Copage
September 5, 2002
The High Holidays are a time Jews reserve for themselves. They don\’t seek the approval or participation of gentiles. What if African Americans stopped trying to get white people to celebrate with us and recognized that we have been essential in making this nation?
Like Grandmother,Like Granddaughter
Gaby Wenig
August 8, 2002
\”I really didn\’t want to do it\” said Chiara Greene, 16, of her bat mitzvah. \”When I was 12, it really did not seem that important to me. I was not religion oriented, and I didn\’t want to do something that I didn\’t completely understand.\”
Those were not words that Chiara\’s father, Richard Greene, wanted to hear. \”I kept telling her you are Jewish, you are my daughter, and I want you to have this experience,\” he said.
Let Them Eat Cake
Jewish Journal Staff
August 1, 2002
While so much of daily life in Israel has changed — or stopped — due to the security situation, life does go on: children celebrate birthdays, teenagers become b\’nei mitzvah and couples marry.
One People, Two Cuisines
Beverly Levitt
March 14, 2002
Because my ancestors were from Eastern Europe, specifically Latvia, Lithuania and Vilna, I am Ashkenazi. Just as I thought all Jews spoke Yiddish, a language I delight in because it\’s so colorful, I grew up thinking Jewish cooking was my mother\’s brisket and carrot tzimmes, my Granny Fanny\’s chopped liver and my Aunt Dorothy\’s blintzes with sour cream. That\’s not to mention the dishes my brothers and I used to giggle about because their names were so amusing — knaidlach, kreplach and knishes.
Not Your Grandmother’s Macaroons
Michael Aushenker
March 14, 2002
You knew this was bound to happen.\n\nJust this past Purim, The Journal reported about how hamantashen were becoming a hot food delicacy outside of Jewish circles. Now, two enterprising Los Angeles-area women are bent on doing the same for yet another holiday dessert staple — the macaroon.
Haggadah Returns to Tradition
Gaby Wenig
March 14, 2002
\”The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah,\” edited by Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, art by Ruth Weisberg. (CCAR Press, $19.95)
When the call went out to find an artist to work on \”The Open Door,\” a new Reform haggadah, Ruth Weisberg knew she just had to apply. Weisberg, 59, a noted artist and dean of fine arts at USC, had done a lot of research and given lectures about the Passover storybooks, and they were something that she felt passionately about.
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