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Honoring Survivors Through Foods They Cherished

Author insists: It's not just a cookbook, it's a mitzvah project

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Linda Morel, Jewish Exponent Feature

WHAT'S COOKING? Falling on May 1 this year, Holocaust Remembrance Day also marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. What could be more meaningful than honoring survivors through the foods they savored before World War II forever changed their lives? Joanne Caras compiled the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook: Collected from Around the World . Alongside the 129 recipes in the...

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'A Revealing Window'

For a time, a great collaboration lit up the musical stage

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Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES I wonder whether the great mass of people who have seen one version or another of Fiddler on the Roof since it premiered on Broadway in 1964 would know, if asked, who wrote the work. Fiddler was and continues to be one of the most popular shows in theater history, and is performed every season -- if not...

Food

Halfway Through the Holiday Come the Salad Days

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Eileen Goltz, Jewish Exponent Feature

SLICE OF LIFE One of the biggest problems with the week of Pesach is that so much of the food is so heavy. Eggs, oil, matzah meal and meat -- lots and lots of meat and chicken, and then maybe some more meat. Sometimes, all you want is a little bit of nothing to fill in the times between the...

Food

Don't Pass Over Any of Those Leftovers!

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Rivka Tal, Jewish Exponent Feature

Let's face it, sometimes Passover food can get monotonous -- how many potatoes can one person eat? So when the family tires of chicken and potatoes or roast and potatoes, why not try using whole matzah as a raw material? There are matzah kugels and matzah roll-ups. Sephardi Jews often dampen matzah before eating it; then it can be filled...

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Where There's 'Hope,' There's ... PIFA

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Michael Elkin

Can't we all get along? Hope so, says Jonathan Leshnoff. And his "Hope" is just that -- a union of a musical mission of orchestra, soloists, choir, poetry and composer that bonds Bible to spiritual and blends ancient with au courant. And this oratorio of an aural sensation all plays an important part in the current Philadelphia International Festival of...