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Food

When Life Hands You Too Much Matzah ...

Make matzah bark

By:

Linda Morel, JE Feature

I'm ashamed to admit that I often lose track of the leftover matzah products purchased for Passover. After the holiday, they languish in my pantry, getting bypassed by a new season of ingredients. I promise to consume them, but that never happens once the challah and croissants compete for my attention. As July rolls around, I invariably discover boxes of...

Film & Television

Are You a Regifter?

Then here's a prize you just may be able to use ... again!

By:

Michael Elkin

Not that there's anything wrong with it. But ... Do we really need to make icons and heroes out of heartless and heedless misanthropes sentenced to prison for their acts against humanity, who stood idly by while watching the public get ripped off and robbed of their decency and savings? No, not AIG. Not even Lehman Bros. No, of course...

Film & Television

Filmmaker's Life Real Ambush -- Until, That Is, He Met Reel Hope

By:

Michael Elkin

"Lawrence of Arabia"? Avitan of Judaica! It's so much more than a sand thing; indeed, this sabra Spielberg wannabe knows all too well the do's and dunes of making it in the film business. Correction. "No, I admire Steven Spielberg; he's a genius. I am not a genius. I want to do good films, but I only hope to be...

Arts

Rivers Dance

By:

Michael Elkin

Plastic -- don't leave home without it! Joan Rivers' credit card of a mantra? To her credit, the comely comedian whose caustic wit is as scalpel-scary as the surgery she's undergone, is, at 76 trombones of a career and years, very much an up-and-comer. C'mon, you're saying? In the neck and neck -- nip 'n' tuck -- face off at...

Books

Shanghai Express

A slice of Jewish life in an Asian community

By:

Robert Leiter

Back in February, NPR's "Morning Edition" ran a piece about Shanghai's Jewish history, and how the 1-square-mile area where Jews had settled after fleeing Hitler in the late 1930s and early '40s was being threatened by the wrecking ball. It seems that the wish to widen a road could possibly set the ball in motion, destroying a number of buildings...