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Here's How to End Mom's Special Day on a Sweet Note

By:

Ethel Hofman, Jewish Exponent Feature

On Mother's Day, traditionally the family will get up early to prepare Mom's breakfast, which she will eat in bed. Crayoned "I Love You" cards from the kids will be proudly displayed on the refrigerator and, later in the day, Dad may show off his barbecuing skills. But kids love to cook, and here's a perfect opportunity, with a little...

Theater

Someone's in the 'Kitchen' With Shira

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Michael Elkin

So, what are they serving up in "Bubby's Kitchen"? Pots full of smarts, says Shira Ginsburg. "A lot of it," she says proudly of her family, "other people's wisdom." Someone's in the "Kitchen" with Shira -- her bubby and five other family female members -- in this six-pack of a party that is so laden with happiness and tears, Golda...

Film & Television

Moscow: The Ultimate Borscht Belt?

'Everybody Loves Raymond' producer finds out the hard -- albeit very funny -- way

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Michael Elkin

After a nine-year run on CBS, "Everybody Loves Raymond" was beloved, adored, admired -- but adapted? Only after creator/exec producer Phil Rosenthal decided to bring "Raymond" -- which dominated the network's comedy bloc -- to the former Eastern Bloc did he realize that being bullet-proof was not enough when engaged in a game of Russian roulette. To Russia, with love...

Film & Television

'Nuremberg': Trials and Tribulations on Way to Screen

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Michael Elkin

Judgment of "Nuremberg" has been long in arriving. But now, 63 years after the documentary made at the behest of the U.S. War Department and the Office of Strategic Services was completed and shown in Germany -- but shoved into a cubbyhole committed to oblivion in the States -- it is premiering this weekend at the Ritz at the Bourse...

Film & Television

Wynnewood Win: Middle Eastern -- or Middle American Film?

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Michael Elkin

Lebanon and the not-so-civil war that erupted between the right and the left brings its battlefield to the big screen this weekend, with all the religious and political rancor endemic to the region played out by flame-throwers on a combustible crusade. "Well, we have been confused with that Lebanon," quips Jason Contino, co-producer of "Lebanon, PA," opening on Friday, April...