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‘Sweet Like Sugar’ gently chronicles gay man’s search for Jewish identity

Jewish Journal October 19, 2011

Like Benji Steiner, the protagonist in his touching new novel, “Sweet Like Sugar,” Wayne Hoffman was born both gay and Jewish. But unlike Benji Steiner, a 26-year-old graphic designer prone to dating pretty boys and church-going Christians, Hoffman has not, he says, spent countless hours with an elderly Orthodox rabbi who would have a heart attack if he knew what he did in the bedroom.

N.Y. safety inspectors taking over kosher duties

Jewish Journal January 6, 2011

New York safety inspectors will be trained to do the work of kosher inspectors, after budget cuts depleted the state\’s kosher division. Rabbi Luzer Weiss, the director of the now defunct Kosher Division of the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets, will train the 85 inspectors to ensure that the proper disclosures are posted in kosher retail establishments, The New York Jewish Week reported. A 2004 change in the state’s kosher law prevents state inspectors from enforcing Orthodox standards of kashrut. According to the new law, kosher establishments must disclose the standards they use and under whose authority they operate, but are not required to adhere to Orthodox regulations.

Sholem Aleichem, Gogol Show Two Views of Shtetl Jews

Jewish Journal March 11, 2009

Russians, Jews and literature scholars get excited about jubilee years, and for those who fit any of these categories, 2009 is a big year. One hundred and fifty years ago this month, a writer who would immortalize the Russian Jew in literature, Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916) — better known by his literary persona, Sholem Aleichem — was born in the town of Pereyaslav, near Kyiv. This spring also marks the 200th birthday of Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), who was born about 100 miles to the east of Kyiv, in the town of Sorochintsy. Gogol, too, helped to immortalize the Russian Jew in literature, but in a more problematic way: the Jews who crop up around the margins of his stories, most of them crafty market vendors, money-lenders and tavern keepers, are anti-Semitic stereotypes, an unsettling detail in the work of one of the greatest comic writers of modern literature.\n

Dual Identity, Double the Questions

Sarah Price Brown July 13, 2007

These days, more American families are adopting from China than any other foreign country, and a large number of those families are Jewish. A wave of girls is now coming of age, starting to face challenging issues of identity.

This book can help kick off successful year of study

Jay Firestone July 13, 2007

Bert Metter wrote \”Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah: How Jewish Boys and Girls Come of Age,\” a guide specifically geared toward the b\’nai mitzvah student. But more than two decades later, Metter said the book deserved an update, because it no longer reflects contemporary ceremonies, especially since practices and celebrations have evolved.

Teens should follow in footsteps of volunteerism

Lynn Schusterman March 9, 2007

While many children of bar mitzvah age are unable to grasp all that their newfound responsibilities entail, each one recognizes the occasion as an important turning point in their lives as Jews.

Rite of passage is not a free pass

Rabbi Jan Katzew March 9, 2007

\”Keeping Up With the Steins\” is an unlikely candidate for an Academy Award, but it has served a purpose if it causes us to pause and consider the cultural phenomenon that prompted its production and distribution.

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