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David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Food

A Pocket Culinary Tour Through Israel

Music

Don’t Turn Your Nose Up at Cabbage

Film & Television

Things to Do During Heritage Month

Food

Do As the Romans Do

There's quite a bit of history to it

By:

Linda Morel, Jewish Exponent Feature

WHAT'S COOKING? Both Italian and Jewish, my husband wanted to show me the Roman Jewish ghetto. In May 1984, we strolled through this sliver of a neighborhood near the Roman Arch and saw hardly a soul. Perusing dusty Judaic shops, several of them closed, I found the surroundings depressing. But last May, retracing our steps, I was amazed to see...

Film & Television

Aargh and Oy!

Does Johnny Depp know about these Jewish 'Pirates of the Caribbean'?

By:

Michael Elkin

Did "Pirates of the Caribbean" miss the boat on its fourth voyage to world box-office dominance? Don't the producers know Jack about the rarely told story of ... Jewish "Pirates of the Caribbean"? Shiver me timbers? Go put a sweater on; there's a draft coming on. And who knows, maybe it's the draft for the fifth screenplay in the dizzyingly...

Books

The Politics of Slaughter

How two dictators bloodied the heart of Europe

By:

Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES How is it that a historian as able as Timothy Snyder can get so many things right in his new book Bloodlands , published by Basic Books, and yet get one big thing so wrong? This work, which clocks in at close to 500 pages, is a detailed record of mass murder beginning in 1933 and ending in...

Film & Television

... and Mel Gibson as "The Beaver"

By:

Michael Elkin

Does it take a brave heart or just foolhardiness to attempt an acting comeback in a movie that Eddie Haskell would love? Mel Gibson is about to find out; the bedeviled and besmirched actor of blue-eyed beauty and green-eyed hatred has taken to the screen in "The Beaver," portraying a diminished depressive damned by the world and divested of hope...

Food

'E' Is for 'Elephant'

Ears, that is

By:

Eileen Goltz, Jewish Exponent Feature

SLICE OF LIFE What is the one food that, given the opportunity to eat right now, would you choose? The immediate, no-holds-barred answer that came from the place where diets don't live was elephant ears. For those of you that have never consumed this treat, an elephant ear is typically a fried, flattened piece of yeast dough, not really like...