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A 'Magic' Premiere Fulfills Cheltenham Teen's Dying Wish

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Opening Barnes’ Doors

Music

Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

Film & Television

Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

Food

Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Food

Stuffed Cabbage: The Jewish Hot Pocket

If you haven’t tried this tantalizing staple in the past, why not serve it as the weather starts to cool down? It’s perfect year-round, but it’s best right around now. Meat-Stuffed Cabbage (Meat) 2 large cabbages 1 large onion 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 lb. stew meat, cut into cubes 1 can (29 oz.) tomato sauce 1 can (6 oz.)...

Food

Israeli Cuisine Reflects the World

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Ethel Hofman

Is there such a thing as Israeli cuisine? After all, Israel is a nation of immigrants; they came from Eastern Europe, Russia, Yemen, Ethiopia … from all corners of the world. They arrived in Palestine with their own culinary customs and culture, with cooking pots slung over their shoulders and recipes carried in their memories. But they soon found that...

Food

Leeks: A Veggie Most Versatile

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Eileen Goltz

Every holiday, I start looking for a fresh vegetable to serve that isn’t connected to the perennial carrot tzimmes and/or green beans. I can’t afford asparagus for 12 — it’s almost as much as my shul dues — and broccoli is just too prosaic. While I’ve heard leeks called the “poor man’s asparagus,” they are truly a stand-out vegetable in...

Theater

Theater Theologizing

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Greg Salisbury

In the centuries-long history of American theater, there have been numerous examples of popular, critically acclaimed plays and musicals with Jewish themes: Fiddler on the Roof, Broken Glass, Conversations With My Father, Pirates of Penzance, to name a few. No, you haven't wandered into an easily solved version of "One of these things is not like the other." According to...

Columns

On 25th Anniversary of the Soviet Jewry March, Learning from the Past

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Daniel Eisenstadt and Michael Granoff

The greatest success story in recent Jewish history has become one of the world's best-kept secrets in under a generation. On Dec. 6, 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Washington, D.C., more than a quarter-million American Jews -- Democrats and Republicans, observant and secular, and individuals representing the entire spectrum of Israeli politics -- gathered on the National...