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Give Thanksgiving a Jewish Flavor

Linda Morel November 18, 2004

\”My sister-in-law stuffs Thanksgiving turkeys with a matzah ball mixture,\” says Faye Levy, food columnist and author of 14 cookbooks. \”Instead of making patties and poaching them, she cooks this tasty mixture inside the turkey.\”

This never struck Levy as odd, because her mother used to make noodle pudding on Thanksgiving.

\”Her Thanksgiving dinners were almost like Shabbat meals,\” she says.

One of Levy\’s all-time favorite dishes is Thanksgiving potato kugel with asparagus. \”I first tried it at the home of a friend from Colorado,\” she says, explaining that it was his grandmother\’s recipe.

\”In his family, that dish was the essence of Thanksgiving.\”

Israel-Turkey Ties Take Cooler Turn

Yigal Schleifer May 27, 2004

Is Israel\’s relationship with Turkey on the skids? Such fears came to the fore when a Lebanese newspaper, quoting sources in Ankara, reported recently that Turkey was freezing future military contracts with Israeli firms. According to the paper, the step was decided on by Turkey\’s Islamic-oriented government, which rejects strategic military cooperation with Israel.

Israel Growing as Arms Dealer

Leslie Susser March 4, 2004

To every black cloud, they say, there is a silver lining. Under constant threat from terrorists and hostile neighbors, Israel has become an expert in security — and that expertise is generating huge profits.

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.\”

Attacks Bolster Turks’ Will to Fight Evil

Engin Ansay November 20, 2003

Following the dastardly attacks in Istanbul targeting Turkish Jews in two synagogues on Nov. 15 that left 25 innocent people dead and several hundred Turkish Jews and Muslims severely injured (see Cover Story, p. 18), I was asked what this all means for Turkey.

It means sadness and sorrow for the lost lives and the loved ones left behind; it certainly means outrage; but it also means determination to fight against this greatest evil of terrorism. It is a terrorism that has no boundaries, that makes no distinction, but is hungry for creating fear and intimidation, and it has no respect for the central and sacred pillars of all universal principles — respect for life and the right to live.

Turkish Jews: We’ll Carry On

Yigal Schleifer November 20, 2003

The recent bombings of two Istanbul synagogues won\’t end the tradition of openness in Turkey\’s Jewish community — and it could even make the community more cohesive, leaders say.

Jews’ Long History in Turkey

Yigal Schleifer November 20, 2003

The Jewish presence in Turkey usually is dated to 1492, when the Ottoman emperor Beyazit II welcomed Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition to his territory. In fact, though, Jewish life in the area has been traced back to at least the fourth century B.C.E.

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