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David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

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A Pocket Culinary Tour Through Israel

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Don’t Turn Your Nose Up at Cabbage

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Things to Do During Heritage Month

Food

Isn't It Rich? Dad Will Think So

After you've served him his favorite dinner, continue to celebrate Dad, along with his sweet tooth, by offering him a homemade chocolate treat that he'll definitely find hard to resist. Fudgy Turtle-Brownie Pie Brownie Ingredients: 1 package (19.4 oz.) brownie mix with pecans 3 Tbsps. water 1/2 cup butter, melted 2 eggs 12 caramels, unwrapped, halved Sauce Ingredients: 15 caramels,...

Film & Television

A Place the Screens Call Their Own

Who needs Hollywood, when now there's ... Vilnius?

By:

Norma Davidoff, JEFeature

Great places to visit make great film locations, right? Paris, Rome, even the plains of Africa. And then there's Vilnius, Lithuania, and its lush rural surroundings. This city, formerly Vilna, was famous as a renown spiritual center of Jewish study for centuries. It's now heading into the 21st century as a legitimate site for film production. U.S. and European producers...

Music

Doing it to the Max

Acclaimed drummer sticks to a 'four-act' life

By:

Michael Elkin

Born to drum. And then some. His roles as TV sidekick, author, raconteur, former music distribution executive, GQ-coiffed quipster ... all are side shows to his showcased talent: Max Weinberg doesn't bang the drum slowly; he makes it dissolve with riffs that roar and reveal a hands-on artistry of perfection. Certainly the forever Bruce buddy and Springsteen E Street star...

Film & Television

'Work of Art,' and Ardor

Will winner emerge from reality series to a chorus of Bravos?

By:

Michael Elkin

Would Rothko have survived Bravo? Don't know, but it would have been a bruising brush with greatness -- the artist who couldn't be painted into a corner, and the bravura network that has cornered some of the best of reality TV. Premiering on June 9, at 11 p.m., on the cable network, "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" works...

Books

What Is Our Divine Purpose?

By:

Robert Leiter

You can tell where Rabbi David Aaron's coming from, as we '60s kids liked to say, just by looking at the titles of his books: Endless Light, Seeing God, The Secret Life of God, Inviting God In and Living a Joyous Life . Add in the fact that Aaron is the founder and dean of Isralight, which his publisher describes...